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Borland Process Consulting Services Advance Software Delivery Optimization for Organizations across the Globe; Borland's Process Improvement Expertise Contributes to ALM Customer Success.


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
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), today announced that enterprises around the world are strengthening their IT and software development processes with the help of Borland's global process improvement services. Since the acquisition of TeraQuest Metrics in early 2005, Borland has signed on and completed a multitude of successful customer implementations with organizations such as Certegy Check Services, Scientific Games Corporation Scientific Games Corporation is a New York City-based company, publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol SGMS. External links
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), Ericsson, General Motors, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Raytheon, BT Group, Vodafone, AXA AXA Anguilla, Anguilla (Airport Code)
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. These organizations chose to engage Borland for reasons ranging from improving software quality and increasing customer satisfaction, to reducing rework and complying with government and industry standards.

"Organizations today are increasingly seeking outside counsel and proven expertise in their quest to make software development a more mature, manageable and successful business process," said Chris Barbin, senior vice president of worldwide services at Borland. "Our seasoned and well-respected process consultants, combined with our industry expertise, proven tools and personalized approach, are what set Borland apart from the competition."

The process expertise and intellectual property that Borland inherited through the TeraQuest acquisition has been well integrated throughout the company over the past year. Borland continues to grow its process expertise throughout the world, with its certified process consultants acting as partners to Borland's worldwide sales team and playing a key role in a wide range of 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) customer implementations.

In addition, the TeraQuest(R) process assets and intellectual property have become a foundation for Borland University, Borland's Process Asset Library and Borland Accelerate - all resources currently available to Borland customers. A wide range of process assets and templates, based on industry best-practices, are also being integrated within Borland's ALM platform, and are already being incorporated into Borland's solutions for IT Management & Governance, Requirements Definition and Management, Change Management and Lifecycle Quality Management.

A Global Focus on Process Improvement

While Borland's process improvement customers vary in their individual objectives, all see the benefits of making their software development processes more mature and predictable. For example, one large European telecommunications provider engaged Borland to improve productivity and quality to support the rollout of new services. Borland worked with the company to design and rollout a process that would help them achieve a Capability Maturity Model(R) Integration (CMMI See CMM. (R)) Level 3 rating, and assist with the migration and implementation of a new set of ALM products. Through these efforts, the telecom provider claims to have automated 60 percent of their processes, saving over $500,000 annually and resulting in a five-fold reduction in software defects.

In the U.S., Borland process experts helped a global healthcare company improve their development processes in order to roll out higher-quality products and services in a timelier manner. This company needed to manage the complexity of delivering integrated IT solutions from 15 different software organizations (each with 50-250 developers). Borland experts facilitated improvement planning and delivered roadmaps and mentoring to help the individual organizations achieve desired objectives and drive measurable results. The company claims to have achieved a 12 percent increase in quality and a 22 percent increase in independent customer satisfaction scores. Additionally, targeted groups were found to be 35 percent more productive than those not included in the initiative.

Making Process Improvement More Approachable

Borland begins every process initiative in a holistic way that aligns process improvement with skills training and technology, bringing these components together to deliver quicker, more effective and more lasting results. Initiatives are conducted via Borland Accelerate, a customizable but proven approach that evaluates an organization's existing process maturity and identifies specific areas for improvement. Borland Accelerate is designed to transform an organization's process maturity level using a flexible four-phase improvement framework that applies best practices, templates, training and technology in a way that is tailored to the customer's unique needs and its urgency for change.

Borland process consultants, who average 22 years of software experience, include some of the industry's foremost thinkers in software development process improvement. Consultants have experience in process standards such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM (Capability Maturity Model) A process developed by SEI in 1986 to help improve, over time, the application of an organization's supporting software technologies. ), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). ), Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT (Control OBjectives for Information and related Technology) A business-oriented set of standards for guiding management in the sound use of information technology from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) (www.isaca.org). (R)) and Six Sigma. They are also experienced in leveraging the Project Management Body of Knowledge The Project Management Institute (PMI) published the first Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide as a white paper in 1987 in an attempt to document and standardize generally accepted project management information and practices[1].  (PMBOK PMBOK Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management Institute, Inc.) (R)). Their accomplishments include helping to develop CMM, as well as authoring the Practical Software Measurement (PSM PSM PlayStation Magazine
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) practices, the People CMM framework, the emerging Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM BPMM Business Process Maturity Model ), and a number of books on process improvement best practices.

To learn more about Borland process optimization services, please visit www.borland.com/services.

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL) is the global leader in platform independent solutions for Software Delivery Optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the people, process, 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.

Borland, Teraquest and all other Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. Capability Maturity Model and CMMI are registered trademarks of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913).  in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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