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Borland Helps Pivot Inc. Automate Software Testing.


Borland([R]) Lifecycle Quality Management Solution Enables Securities Technology Provider to Increase Test Coverage by 50 Percent and Reduce Testing Time by 90 percent

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Borland Software Corporation (company) Borland Software Corporation - A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog.  (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:BORL) (www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project.  (ALM), today announced that Pivot Inc. (www.pivotinc.com), a communications networks provider for institutional investors Institutional Investor

A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions.
, has implemented core components of the Borland([R]) Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM LQM Link Quality Monitoring
LQM Land Quality Management Ltd (UK)
LQM Layered Queuing Model
LQM Laughing Quietly to Myself (also seen as LQTM)
LQM Lifecycle Quality Management
LQM Living Quarters Module
) solution to automate and manage the testing phase of Pivot's software delivery lifecycle.

Pivot uses Borland SilkTest([R])and Borland SilkCentral([R]) Test Manager([TM]) to obtain the premium level of quality it needs by scaling the number of test cases and eliminating its reliance on manual execution of test cases. Borland SilkTest enables regression, cross-platform and localization testing Localization is the process of adapting a globalized application to a particular culture/locale. Localizing an application requires a basic understanding of the character sets typically used in modern software development and an understanding of the issues associated with them.  across a broad set of applications, and Borland SilkCentral Test Manager tests cases to requirement specifications. Pivot also utilizes Borland SilkCentral Test Manager as its central interface for managing, executing and reporting on all testing activities.

"Some people say that automation takes too much time, however, the time we invested in the use of Borland's LQM solution was worth it," said Mark Towle, Manager of Quality Assurance (QA) for Pivot Inc. "We now have more efficient testing to support our agile development See agile software development.  approach, enabling us to deliver higher quality, more relevant and more reliable software to our customers."

Pivot has automated more than half of its software test cases, delivering increased efficiency and productivity. Test plans that used to take one tester, working eight hours a day, one week to complete manually, now run unattended in just five hours. In addition, with the release of Pivot 360[deg], QA teams have been able to more than triple product test coverage, increasing the number of test cases from 1,500 to 6,000 without increasing team resources.

Pivot is an inter-enterprise performance network dedicated to serving the capital markets arena. Pivot boosts customers' performance by aggregating and integrating information and data across disparate sources into decision-making and trading specific workflows. Pivot increases relevance through structured data, and networking people and services 360 degrees around transactions.

"QA is critical to every aspect of our business -- it is a central cog touched by all of our teams to deliver the highest levels of product reliability and performance for our customers," concluded Towle. "The addition of the Borland LQM products allowed us to far exceed objectives for our quality initiatives. We have increased test coverage by 50 percent and reduced test time by 90 percent, much more quickly than we anticipated."

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.

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 and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

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