Borland Core SDP

NEW DELHI: Borland Software Corporation, a global leader for Software Delivery Optimization solutions, today announced the release of Borland Core SDP (Software Delivery Platform) - an integrated, role-based software delivery platform that is designed to increase an organization's visibility and control over all phases of the software delivery process.

Delivering the foundation upon which Borland will build out its Software Delivery Optimization vision, Borland Core SDP provides an application lifecycle management (ALM) environment with integrated tools optimized for job function and cross-role interaction. Previously code-named "Project Themis," Borland Core SDP delivers a collaborative architecture for more efficient and predictable software development.

It provides a customized work environment for analysts, architects, developers and testers - optimized for specific job functions - yet integrated across the other roles within the application lifecycle. Through this architecture, individual job functions are given more focus while software teams are able to leverage enhanced workflow visibility across the organization.

"The release of Borland Core SDP represents another milestone on the path towards Software Delivery Optimization (SDO)," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of products of Borland. "Eliminating the non-collaborative nature that plagues so many failed software projects is a key step in helping customers evolve the way they create and deliver software. Borland Core SDP provides a consistent teamwork foundation throughout the enterprise that organizations can use to begin to transform the way they develop software, from an unpredictable art form to a more managed, repeatable business process."

"While point products will continue to play a role in ALM, organizations are undoubtedly looking to simplify their software development and delivery mechanisms," said Melissa Webster, research director of application development and deployment at IDC. "By integrating Borland's ALM technology into a single platform and empowering individual stakeholders to take more accountability over the success of the entire application lifecycle, Borland Core SDP takes a substantial step toward evolving the culture of software development from what is now largely ad-hoc individualism to a more cohesive, linked approach."

Virtually all companies today rely on software to gain competitive advantage. Yet companies face unprecedented challenges in modern software development: increased IT complexity, distributed teams and organizations, gaps between development roles, as well as gaps between the development team, operations and other parts of the business. As a result, less than a third of software projects today actually succeed, more than half come in over budget, and 84 percent suffer from time overruns.

As a natural evolution in advancing ALM beyond just point-to-point tool integration, Borland Core SDP integrates best-of-breed technology from Borland's award-winning ALM products including CaliberRM®, Together®, JBuilder®, StarTeam®, and Optimizeit(tm), with new cross-platform technology - creating a truly integrated, role-based platform for achieving Software Delivery Optimization. The server-based platform into which the role modules integrate provides an easy-to-administer, high-performance foundation for proactively managing changes across roles, capturing ALM metrics for analysis and diagnostics, and enabling advanced traceability and knowledge management across distributed teams.

For more information, please go to http://www.borland.com.