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Neochange and Borland Partner on Software Delivery Transformation
Neochange to leverage Borland's new software delivery management platform to help enterprises better track, measure and improve software delivery processes
AUSTIN, TX - July 14, 2008 - Borland Software Corporation
(NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com),
the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM), and Neochange, the leading
management consulting firm in effective
IT adoption and business transformations,
today announced a partnership whereby Neochange
will provide ALM Transformation Management
Services using Borland Management Solutions
to help customers effectively design, plan
and execute complex IT management transformations.
Announced today, Borland® Management Solutions
(BMS) is a software delivery management
platform that will enable customers to better
orchestrate, measure, predict and improve
the performance of their software delivery
organizations. Leveraging the Borland Open
ALM Framework, BMS plugs into a customer's
existing ALM tooling infrastructure, providing
an ALM management "cockpit" that gives unprecedented
visibility and control over the entire application
lifecycle. [Editor's Note: See Press Release
"Borland
Management Solutions Put the "M" in Application
Lifecycle Management"]
Borland's mission is to help organizations transform software delivery into a managed business process, and it understands that successful IT transformation involves a combination of people, processes and tools. Neochange works with senior IT leaders to deliver business transformations through effective technology adoption, getting systems in sync with the business demands of changing organizations. Through this partnership, Borland's Management Solutions can accelerate Neochange customers' transformations by providing the cross-process visibility, measurement framework, and business intelligence to support and track the operational improvements an organization achieves through its transition.
"For the past 20 years there have been nominal improvements in software delivery productivity and quality," said Chris Dowse, CEO of Neochange. "What is needed is not another incremental change in the way individual practitioners work, but something that is much more of a breakthrough in the overall operations of complex delivery environments. BMS, with its principles of openness, collaboration, flexibility and measurement can bring about that type of breakthrough. Borland believes that its solutions are a catalyst that, when paired with a people-centric approach to transformation, can drive sustainable organizational change that impact corporate earnings.
Built on Borland's Open ALM Framework, the Borland Management Solutions work with a range of ALM tools and processes to offer complete visibility, process support and interactive dashboards that use real-time and historical ALM data to track and measure software delivery performance.
"Organizational change is not easy. But it is nearly impossible without an accurate, complete understanding of what is really going on in the "black box" that is many software delivery organizations," said Rick Jackson, Borland's senior vice president of corporate strategy and CMO. "Neochange are experts in turning vision and strategies into successful transformation programs. Every other business function has visibility and control over its operations, and now, together Neochange and Borland can help software delivery organizations benefit from that same discipline."
Borland Management Solutions are expected to be generally available in Fall 2008.
Virtual Video Launch: To see BMS in action
and to hear from the Borland executives
and engineers behind the Borland Management
Solutions, please tune in on July 14 at
10:00 AM EDT: http://event.on24.com/event/11/39/15/rt/index.html.
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 www.borland.com.
About Neochange
Founded in 2000, Neochange (www.neochange.com)
is the leading management consulting firm
focused exclusively on the complex challenge
of Effective IT Adoption. Neochange's innovative
AdoptIT™ methodology mitigates adoption
risk and drives Effective IT Adoption to
accelerate business transformations and
deliver corporate earnings improvements.
Global 1000 companies and industry leaders
have engaged Neochange as a trusted advisor
to design and deploy their business transformation
initiatives and adoption centers of excellence.
For more information contact
inquiries@neochange.com |
