The Borland Software Change Management Solution

The Borland Software Change Management Solution allows software development organizations to control, communicate and respond more effectively to rapidly changing business demands. By appropriately combining people, process and technology, Borland helps organizations increase responsiveness, predictability and the delivery of “correct” software applications and systems via a managed business process.

Borland provides a comprehensive approach to helping software organizations remain fluid and responsive to the changing needs of the business, enabling organizations to more effectively:

• Control: Provide process-driven practices focused on controlled activity and asset management
• Communicate: Specify, clarify and communicate changing requirements, plans, resources, and deliverables quickly and simultaneously to all key business stakeholders
• Respond: Track changes, trace activities and ensure accuracy to improve software development and delivery

Borland's Software Change Management Solution helps organizations address the following key questions:

• How can we choose which requested changes are the best for the business?
• How can we make informed and controlled decisions that support our business objectives?
• How can we communicate clearly across a geographically distributed team?
• How can we effectively manage project tasks and work items?
• How can we produce repeatable software builds?

The Borland solution helps organizations achieve greater maturity in each of the
Five Critical Process Areas in Software Change Management:

• Change Request Management to capture and organize all changes that are requested.
• Project Analysis to choose which efforts are likely to have the greatest benefit
• Development where managing distributed, heterogeneous IT environments is essential.
• Validation of the end product to ensure completeness in meeting the requests.
• Management of assets and activities throughout to eliminate chaos