Borland Strengthens Its Application Lifecycle Management Support for the Microsoft .NET Environment

Business Wire, June 13, 2006

BOSTON -- Relationship With Microsoft Yields New Customers for Borland's Lifecycle Products Supporting Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, as Company Ships New Products for .NET Environment

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 Conference -- Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL), the global leader for Software Delivery Optimization, today announced that its ongoing relationship with Microsoft and support of customers using the .NET environment has resulted in a number of new customer and partner engagements including an agreement with Avanade Inc. -- a leading technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft enterprise platform. Borland also announced today that it is making available new versions of key Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products supporting Visual Studio 2005 in the areas of UML modeling, requirements definition and management and requirements-driven testing.

Avanade plans to use the Borland Requirements Definition and Management (RDM) product set as part of their implementations for customers using Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Borland's requirements solution for the Microsoft platform includes Caliber(R) Analyst, one of the first enterprise products to integrate a visual tool for requirements definition with an enterprise-class requirements management system. Caliber Analyst enables organizations to facilitate the elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management of requirements.

"The ability to properly define and manage requirements across the development life cycle, as supplied by Borland's requirements engineering products for Visual Studio 2005 Team System, is a important value add for our platform," said Ian Knox, lead product manager for Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft Corp. "Working closely with Borland on this effort ensures that our joint customers have the ability to get requirements right from the start, thereby increasing overall quality and minimizing the costly re-work that is so often caused by bad requirements."

Avanade is not only planning to use the Borland Requirements Definition and Management product set as one of the components of its ALM customer implementations, but also for its own internal development efforts.

"Without an effective requirements management process in place, the overall quality and integrity of an application can be adversely affected given that the entire development lifecycle is governed by the initial requirements defined," said Eric Blankenburg, vice president of Applications and Integration at Avanade. "Borland's Caliber Analyst leads to accurate and complete requirements that truly meet our business needs."

A Long-Term Relationship Aimed at the Growing ALM Market

Borland and Microsoft are working together on a number of go-to-market activities around the Borland RDM offering for Visual Studio 2005 Team System including joint sales, marketing and engineering integration initiatives. The collaboration is aimed squarely at the growing ALM market. Analyst firm IDC forecasts the ALM market will grow to $3.3 billion (U.S.) in 2009, achieving a 9.2 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for 2004-2009.(1) According to industry analysts, a significant percentage of organizations are already using, or plan to use, the Microsoft .NET environment in their software development efforts.

New Visual Design and Requirements-Driven Testing Capabilities for Visual Studio

Customers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 can not only leverage Borland's requirements solution in their .NET Framework-based development projects, but can also benefit from a new version of Borland's visual modeling platform. Together(R) 2006 for Visual Studio is integrated with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, providing comprehensive modeling support including UML 2.0 diagramming, patterns, and Borland LiveSource capabilities. The product, which Borland plans to make available later this summer, is also integrated with Borland's new requirements definition tool, enabling developers and designers to consume newly elicited requirements and turn them into well architected software solutions.

Additionally, Borland now offers Visual Studio 2005 Team System users

the integrations and capabilities necessary for requirements-driven testing. The tight integration between Caliber Analyst and Borland's SilkTest(R) and SilkCentral(R) Test Manager products enables quality assurance (QA) organizations to easily construct and execute a set of test cases directly from application requirements. This drives better alignment between business analysts, developers and QA teams, and enables businesses to more quickly deploy high-quality applications.

Borland is demonstrating its RDM products at the Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 Conference this week, at booth number 517. For more information on Borland ALM products, please see http://www.borland.com/us/products/alm/index.html; for a full description of new features in Together 2006 for Visual Studio, please see www.borland.com/us/products/together/index.html.>