Borland Newsletter - Issue #8, November 2007

Executive Corner

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Executive Corner

The world’s reliance on software to drive businesses of all sizes has placed tremendous challenges on software development organizations in almost every industry. These teams face continuous pressure to deliver software faster and with less overall cost to their business. Highly distributed software development organizations and the growing complexity of IT environments only compounds this pressure. Far too often, in the race to deliver software on time and within budget, it is product quality that is negatively impacted.

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Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation

Virtualization is quickly becoming a standard for IT organizations today. Enterprises are already beginning to realize the cost savings with server consolidation and a reduced need for power. IT managers are now looking to broaden the use of virtualization to further cost savings within the enterprise.

Application development teams and test teams can greatly benefit from the virtues of virtualization. The highly dynamic nature of modern software development often requires operation on multiple technology platforms, operating systems, web and application servers and databases. Add to this the many different builds, patches, or regionalized versions that are delivered by development and it is easy to see the immense challenge of test teams to provide adequate coverage. Setting up and administering multiple physical systems, multiple times wastes resources and takes away from valuable testing time.

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Borland In the News		Customer Spotlight
Software Testing Gets Virtualized Optimizing the Software Quality Process with Virtual Lab Environments Borland Expands Language Of Software Models And Code Generation Borland Simplifies Modeling in New ALM App SmartSignal's quality assurance team leverages automated software testing Borland ALM survey finds heterogeneity More Borland In the News		SmartSignal, Inc. Learn how SmartSignal, a leading provider of asset analytics applications, is successfully using Borland SilkTest for automated functional and regression testing to speed quality assurance, reduce rework and improve organizational efficiency. Automated testing is really an extension of the QA function. Borland SilkTest is the best tool available to be that extension for us. George Cerny, Quality Assurance Manager, SmartSignal, Inc. Read More

Webcasts		Resources
Test What Matters. The Benefits of Aligning Requirements and Testing. When: November 15th, 2007 Time: 10am PST QA teams: Deliver testing confidence. Know that all testing activities are associated with prioritized business requirements and that when requirements change, everyone knows. Business teams: Support decision-making. Understand how projects that are driven by complete requirements that assure test and dev teams stay focused on what end users really expect are consistently the most successful. Register Now Is Distributed Development Empowering or Undermining Your Business Agility? When: November 6th, 2007 Time: 10am PST Managing software development across distributed teams and multiple software projects is hard enough. But to do it in a way that actually delivers strategic value to the organization in the form of business agility, you need a way to improve collaboration, simplify team infrastructure a and make sure everyone’s working from a centralized, single source of truth. Register Now Migrate to Borland StarTeam® for Software Development Success When: December 6th, 2007 Time: 10am PST StarTeam provides global asset and activity management with a unified, collaborative repository for all your project deliverables. StarTeam also provides one place for everything, with common configuration, workflow, and security mechanisms to track and administer the entire development flow as an enterprise-level managed process across distributed sites. Register Now		Tracing Performance Issues to Their Source White Paper Load testing is not enough! Find out how you can detect and isolate performance bottlenecks at the offending line of code, then resolve them fast by integrating load testing and diagnostics. Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation White Paper Distributed development, SOA and shifting methodologies all conspire to sabotage software quality. Virtualization can provide a better alternative to setting up physical testing environments. Learn how to truly get the most out of virtualized testing by seamlessly integrating it within your testing process. Successful Projects Begin With Well-Defined Requirements White Paper Don’t just manage requirements — define them accurately upfront. Read how to capture the right requirements without relying on word docs or emails. Forrester Independent Report: The State of Model Driven Development If you've already written off traditional modeling as too simplistic, rigid or confusing, it's time to take a second look. In this independent report, Forrester explains how a new approach to model-driven development goes light-years beyond what application development managers have come to expect. Value Calculator: See what you can save with a Project and Portfolio Management solution Optimizing IT investments and project executions to gain a strategic business advantage may sound good…but does it really work? Forecast how much you can save with a Project and Portfolio Management solution using the Borland Value Calculator.
		Product News
		Announcing Together 2007 On October 12, Borland unveiled the latest release of its visual modeling product, Borland® Together® 2007. Borland Together 2007 delivers new and enhanced capabilities to help companies increase business agility and lower application maintenance costs, including unique, platform-independent support for domain-specific languages (DSLs). The new DSL Toolkit helps organizations overcome the complexity of UML models by allowing project teams to create model notations aligned with their own business domain – optimizing communication and efficiency and increasing the applicability of modeling across the entire business. Read More

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Executive Corner

Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation

SmartSignal, Inc.

Test What Matters. The Benefits of Aligning Requirements and Testing.

Is Distributed Development Empowering or Undermining Your Business Agility?

Migrate to Borland StarTeam® for Software Development Success

Tracing Performance Issues to Their Source White Paper

Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation White Paper

Successful Projects Begin With Well-Defined Requirements White Paper

Forrester Independent Report: The State of Model Driven Development

Value Calculator: See what you can save with a Project and Portfolio Management solution

Announcing Together 2007