SteelTrace has Advantage in Design Tool Market, Says Butler Group

Business Wire, July 30, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002

Butler Group, Europe's leading IT analyst company, says any organization would benefit from SteelTrace's Catalyze, a suite of tools for business process, requirements capture and management. Butler Group says Catalyze provides a complete and sound solution for capturing processes and requirements and communicating them to stakeholders.

"SteelTrace has an advantage over competing extended system design tools, such as Rational Requisite Pro, as it is able to focus on its core product and deliver the best solution for the requirements capture process, as opposed to trying to be the best at everything - a strategy which rarely succeeds," said Emma Jagger, Butler Group Researcher.

In its recently published review of Catalyze, Butler Group cites the following product benefits:

-- Reduced time to capture requirements

-- Reduced cost and consequently increased project margins

-- Improved communication and collaboration between business analysts and developers

-- Automatic production of full supporting documentation

-- Increased probability of achieving customer satisfaction

The Catalyze suite of products, which currently consists of Catalyze Solo and Catalyze Collaborate, is designed for business analysts, systems analysts and project managers. Catalyze Solo was released in March 2002, followed by Catalyze Collaborate in May.

"One of the reasons up to 74% of software projects fail is insufficient capturing of requirements and poor communication between business analysts and developers, which leads to a misunderstanding of the user requirements," said Tara O'Sullivan, SteelTrace CEO. "I'm pleased Butler Group recommends Catalyze as a simple way to translate project requirements into a format that can be easily used by developers."

Butler Group encourages enterprises to take advantage of SteelTrace's 30-day product trial, available at http://www.steeltrace.com.

About SteelTrace

SteelTrace develops business process and requirement tools that increase the accuracy between customer requirements and system delivery. SteelTrace's Catalyze(TM) Solo and Catalyze(TM) Collaborate help Business Process Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Systems Analysts capture, view and manage customer requirements and system specifications. SteelTrace was founded in February 2001 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. SteelTrace is a netdecisions group company.

About Butler Group

Butler Group is the premier European provider of Information Technology research, analysis and advice. Founded in 1990 by Martin Butler, the company is respected throughout the business world for the impartiality and incisiveness of its research and opinion. Butler Group provides a comprehensive portfolio of Research, Events, and Subscription Services, catering for the specialised needs of all levels of executive, from IT professionals to senior managers and board directors.