Borland Expands Partner Ecosystem for Open Application Lifecycle Management

Best-in-Class Partner Technologies Bolster Borland Lifecycle Quality Management Solution; Support Customers’ Existing Investments in Tools, Processes and Platforms

Cupertino, Calif. - Jun 18, 2007 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced it has expanded its Open ALM partner ecosystem to provide customers with solutions that further optimize and accelerate critical software delivery lifecycle processes. The partnerships further extend Borland’s Open ALM product strategy by bringing to market solutions that are flexible enough to support customers' existing investments in ALM tools, processes and platforms.

The new technology partnerships include Codefast™ Inc., dynaTrace Software and Ring-Zero Software. Each of these partners will provide unique and complementary technologies designed to bolster Borland’s Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution. Specifically, the partners will enhance Borland® Gauntlet®, a continuous integration and test automation system, and Borland’s Silk product line of enterprise-class quality management solutions, with capabilities ranging from next generation build automation and performance diagnostics to advanced integration connectors that protect and maximize customers’ existing investments in third-party technologies.

“Borland’s vision for Open ALM is to enable customers to automate existing processes through the integration of any combination of lifecycle tools they choose – both Borland and third-party,” said Marc Brown, vice president of product marketing, Borland Software. “With the integration of the partner technologies announced today, we are building on our Open ALM vision by broadening our support for third party lifecycle tools, development processes and platform environments, while helping customers adopt a more comprehensive and proactive approach to software quality.”

* Borland Gauntlet integration with Codefast PerfectBuild™ – provides a Continuous Integration and Test (CIT) infrastructure that delivers maximum performance and scalability throughout the enterprise by overcoming the performance, reliability and adaptability limitations of customers’ existing build processes. The integration enables Borland Gauntlet users to access PerfectBuild’s pattern-driven build automation and management solution to create scalable, adaptable “push-button” builds across a wide number of platforms while fully utilizing customers’ existing build infrastructures.
* Borland SilkPerformer integration with dynaTrace Diagnostics® - enables developers and Quality Assurance to more efficiently detect, isolate and resolve performance issues in today’s complex, highly distributed and heterogeneous .NET and Java application environments. The integrated solution completes the performance testing and tuning process by combining Borland SilkPerformer’s ability to isolate performance issues through load and stress testing with the ability of dynaTrace Diagnostics to trace the root-cause of performance bottlenecks down to the code-level – accelerating problem resolution and speeding the performance tuning process for reduced costs.
* Borland third-party connectors delivered by Ring-Zero Software - designed to support and protect customers’ investments in non-Borland tools and technologies by providing integration connectors that will enable better use and management of those tools, including HP/Mercury testing solutions. The connectors will also help to provide meaningful alignment to better support ALM processes, traceability and tool usage across teams and projects.


For more information on Borland’s Open ALM solutions, please visit:
http://www.borland.com/us/company/index.html

For more information on Borland’s LQM solution, please visit:
http://www.borland.com/us/solutions/lifecycle-quality-management/index.html
Partner Quotes
Codefast

"PerfectBuild and Gauntlet are very complimentary to one another," said Nick Berens, CEO, Codefast. "Developers want quick, reliable results, and systems that are simple to operate and update. Managers need the power to ensure policies are followed and easy visibility into what’s going on. By combining PerfectBuild and Gauntlet, we are giving them an integrated solution, which satisfies the needs of both parties. Borland has the resources and experience to help enterprises adopt CIT and we are excited to be working with them."
dynaTrace

“Reducing the cost and time required to quickly and proactively solve and prevent performance disasters is a standing IT requirement,” said Bernd Greifeneder, CEO dynaTrace. “Borland and dynaTrace deliver on this with purpose-built, code-level .NET and Java diagnostics for performance testing.”
Ring-Zero Software

“Customers need ALM solutions that can leverage other systems and tools in which they’ve invested,” said Jason Slater, CEO, Ring-Zero Software. “Borland and Ring-Zero have partnered to deliver on Borland’s Open ALM vision of improving processes without requiring toolset standardization or fully proprietary solutions.”
About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions – open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms – providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. To learn more about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.

Borland, Gauntlet, SilkPerformer and all other Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Codefast, PerfectBuild and all other Codefast brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Codefast, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. dynaTrace Diagnostics and all other dynaTrace brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of dynaTrace Software GmbH or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners
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