Borland Delivers Comprehensive Modeling Solution to Simplify and Accelerate Enterprise Software Design.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Together(R) 2006 Provides Common Visual Language Capabilities For Both Business-Process Modeling and Model-Driven Architecture to Facilitate Business and IT Alignment

Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL), a global leader for Software Delivery Optimization(TM), today announced the release of Borland(R) Together(R) 2006 -- a major upgrade to its flagship Together product line delivering enterprise-class software modeling capabilities. Spanning multiple IT roles, Together 2006 is designed to help eliminate the chasm between business stakeholders, analysts and software developers through the use of common visual languages.

The Together 2006 solution provides business process modeling support and is one of the industry's first solutions to help facilitate Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) design and development by enabling model-to-model transformations. It is Borland's most comprehensive modeling offering to date, and is the first release from Borland to bring the full set of Together capabilities to customers wishing to leverage the Eclipse development framework.

"Business process modeling has emerged as the primary mechanism in which IT can connect itself to business users," said Michael Blechar, vice president of Internet and e-Business Technologies, Gartner. "It also helps ensure that software development work is founded on the proper business foundational models. Additionally, it gives business analysts a way to describe processes in their own terms and with tools that provide benefits consistent to the way they work."

"Modeling is playing a pivotal role in helping software organizations overcome obstacles to deliver high quality software," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of products at Borland. "By bringing new MDA capabilities, which can significantly enhance software resiliency through better architecture, as well as business process modeling support and several other new features, Borland is giving customers access to the latest modeling innovations in a single, easy-to-use toolset."

Together 2006: A Single Toolset for Multi-Purpose Design Needs

Whether users are defining or enhancing business processes, architecting databases, creating new applications or extracting design information from existing applications, the Together 2006 toolset helps keep analysts, architects, and developers in sync with a common, visual understanding of requirements, architectures, and designs.

In addition to offering the traditional benefits of Together technology -- such as aiding data modeling design through physical and logical data models, helping IT and application analysts with the definition and design of requirements through UML use-case analysis, and enabling development teams to implement model-driven development (MDD) best practices -- Together 2006 also offers the following new user benefits:

--Ability to Fully Leverage the Eclipse Framework -- Together 2006 unifies many platform-specific tools and brings all the best features of Together technology all built on top of Eclipse 3.1 integration framework, enabling customers to tightly integrate Together into their Eclipse environment.

--Business Process Modeling Support -- Business process modeling is an established business practice now gaining traction in enterprise software development. It provides a way of visualizing the often-complex workflows within an enterprise organization. By creating graphical representations of business processes that describe activities and their interdependencies, organizations are able to examine inefficiencies and determine areas for improvement.

--Model-Driven Architecture Support -- The Together 2006 suite is one of the first products to enable customers to build software using the MDA approach via support of the query/view/transformation (QVT) specification -- a critical component of MDA design. The QVT specification, which enables users to effectively perform model-to-model transformations, is the cornerstone specification of MDA. With QVT support, MDA evolves from conceptual philosophy to achievable software practice.

--Model and Code Quality Assurance -- This release brings the introduction of model-level audits and metrics to help designers and developers improve the quality of their work, including audits to encourage naming convention adherence and low-level inspections to enforce model completeness. Additionally, code-level audits include Java best practices, "auto-correct," as well as metrics to provide accurate analysis of the model as implemented in the source code.

"As a Together customer taking an MDA approach to our own software design efforts, we are very excited to see the advances Borland is delivering with Together 2006," said Alan McCutchen, vice president of engineering, Modus Operandi -- a leading software company that accelerates and simplifies mission-critical Enterprise Information Integration (EII) projects for federal agencies and prime contractors. "By combining MDA with EII, we see a paradigm shift away from extensive coding of vertical web services to an object-oriented integration approach focused upon data modeling. Our customers gain faster time-to-value, stronger potential for re-use across multiple applications, and reduced maintenance costs through this approach."

The Together 2006 product set includes Together Architect 2006 for Eclipse, Together Designer 2006 for Eclipse and Together Developer 2006 for Eclipse. Targeting business analysts, software architects and developers, the Together 2006 toolset provides role-centric modeling capabilities with job-specific workspaces that cater to the particular needs of specific software development roles. Individual yet integrated views promote team collaboration and work reuse via integrated and automated workflow capabilities.

Business Process Modeling: Bringing an Established Practice to Software

Together 2006 now supports Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a standard graphical notation used to enable business process modeling in software development. It helps depict the steps and end-to-end flow of a business process, allowing process participants to coordinate, track and visualize the sequence of processes and messages. BPMN is useful for integrating systems development from the business process model to actual code generation, and can significantly increase business analyst productivity.

BPMN presents a superior method over the traditional text-centric approach to defining processes, which can lend itself to ambiguity and misinterpretation. Leveraging the Together suite's integration with Borland's application lifecycle management tool set, business process models can be traced to requirements in Borland's Caliber(R) requirements management solution, versioned in the StarTeam(R) software change and configuration management tool, and used throughout the development lifecycle.

Managing Change and Promoting Work Re-Use through MDA

Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a standards-based approach to creating resilient software applications capable of withstanding the challenges associated with business and technology change. A model-driven architected system separates and insulates business and application logic from the underlying platform technology, allowing business and technology requirements to evolve alongside each other at their own pace. This separation is achieved through the creation of platform-independent models which are then transformed to platform-specific models (known as model-to-model transformations).

Together Architect 2006 gives software architects the tools they need to utilize MDA, perform model-to-model transformation, and create more manageable models operating in concert versus huge, monolithic models. Models thus become highly usable development artifacts that promote work re-use and productivity gains.

Making Modeling a Cornerstone of the Application Lifecycle

Modeling continues to play an increasingly important role in helping organizations make software delivery a less complex and more repeatable, predictable and manageable business process. The capabilities delivered in Together 2006 are a crucial component of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization vision and product strategy. Many of the new capabilities offered in Together 2006 will be incorporated into Borland's fully-integrated, role-based Core Software Delivery Platform (SDP), as well as in its Core::Architect(TM) role module.

All products in Borland's Together 2006 suite are scheduled to be made available during the third calendar quarter of 2005. For more information, please go to http://www.borland.com/together.

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL) is a global leader in Software Delivery Optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the people, processes and technology required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit: http://www.borland.com.

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