Borland Software Corporation, a global leader for software delivery optimisation, today announced that its leading requirements management and software configuration management solutions have achieved the Elite Connections status from Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO).
Mercury has validated that both CaliberRM 2005 and StarTeam 2005 have achieved the highest level of integration with Mercury Quality Centre, the company`s solution for performing quality assurance across a wide range of IT environments.
The integrated Borland and Mercury solution is designed to help customers improve overall product quality and time-to-market needs by better aligning software testing and development activities, and by enabling greater collaboration between business analysts, software developers, QA engineers and engineering managers.
With this integration, development and testing teams are now able to work within their preferred, best-of-class applications with greater visibility into other phases and roles within the application lifecycle.
"This integration demonstrates both Borland and Mercury`s commitment to helping its customers optimise the capabilities of their applications," said Rajesh Radhakrishnan, vice-president of application delivery products at Mercury. "An Elite Connections integration between Mercury Quality Centre and Borland`s products assures our joint customers that Mercury has formally reviewed the integration and validated that it passes our highest levels of scrutiny."
CaliberRM and StarTeam`s integration with Mercury Quality Centre is designed to provide customers with a seamlessly integrated, best-of-breed software delivery toolset that spans various phases and roles in the application lifecycle. The integration allows customers to leverage the strengths of two industry leaders, and enables bi-directional information flow between development and operations teams. This flow helps increase overall communication, efficiency and quality in the software delivery process.
"Software delivery optimisation is about closing the gaps between business, development and operations, and with today`s increasingly heterogeneous IT environments, this includes closing the gaps between the various commercial products that different groups may use," said Erik Frieberg, vice-president of product marketing at Borland. "Many of our biggest customers are also Mercury customers, and this growing relationship with Mercury will enable us to better serve those customers."
CaliberRM and StarTeam contribute to making software a more managed business process; by enabling teams to capture and manage the requirements, resources, tasks, timelines and assets within the software development cycle. Now, through the Elite Connection with Mercury Quality Centre, the assets and workflow of CaliberRM and StarTeam are able to integrate seamlessly into the testing and quality assurance phases of the application lifecycle. The alignment of these assets and phases can be a critical factor to the success or failure of software projects.
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The Mercury Technology Alliance Programme is designed to enable technology and software vendors to develop integrations with Mercury Optimisation Centre products for IT governance, application delivery and application management. Complementary products from companies in the Mercury Technology Alliance Programme include: application servers, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), system and network management applications and many others.
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Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) is a global leader in platform independent solutions for software delivery optimisation. The company provides the software and services that align the people, process and technology required to maximise the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit http://www.borland.com.