Budco Selects Borland(R) IT Project and Portfolio Management Solution To Improve Business and IT Alignment.

Leading Marketing Services Company Chooses Borland Tempo([TM]) to Help Provide Greater Visibility and Control Over IT Projects and Resource Allocation 

AUSTIN, Texas -- Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL) www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced that Budco, a leading marketing services and distribution company, has selected Borland([R]) Tempo([TM]) to increase visibility and control over IT projects and facilitate greater organizational alignment around IT priorities and resource allocation.

For 25 years, Budco has provided marketing communication and fulfillment services to some of the world's leading companies spanning across a range of industries, from pharmaceutical to financial services. Budco's IT department is charged with developing both customer-facing and internal projects for the company while maintaining alignment with overall business goals.

For this reason, it is critical that Budco's IT department have the ability to provide the company with a clear picture of how IT project resources are being allocated and prioritized, and when projects will be completed. To address these challenges, Budco sought a solution that would improve visibility across business lines, provide detailed insight into resource allocation and help the company better prioritize and manage IT projects.

Budco selected Borland Tempo, the cornerstone of Borland's IT Project and Portfolio Management solution, over competing solutions due to the product's functional breadth and depth, flexibility, ease of use, and lower total-cost-of-ownership. The product's ability to integrate with Budco's existing tools and technologies was also key to its selection.

"We got to the point where we realized our home-grown systems would only take us so far," said Steve Swanson, CIO at Budco. "We believe Borland Tempo is the best product on the market from a features and functionality standpoint and we also found that it was the most closely aligned with what we were trying to accomplish. With Borland Tempo, Budco will be able to incrementally adapt processes and select the best technology investments -- on our terms."

By implementing Borland Tempo, Budco hopes to give the business and the IT organization improved visibility into project and portfolio IT resource allocation and improve their ability to analyze estimated versus actual project completion times. The product will allow users to view and analyze project data in real-time and facilitate allocation of resources. It will also provide the company with a complete, collaborative IT project and portfolio management system designed to allow users to incrementally adopt more efficient processes for collecting, evaluating and prioritizing projects based on business value and impact.

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