Customer Quotes
"To aid me in delivering top level technology solutions, I need access to highly productive tools to facilitate software development. Borland is a software tools vendor that continually provides high quality tools required to build large scale, transactional, distributed systems that target today's inherently heterogeneous production environments. Borland provides a comprehensive and highly integrated work environment, and because their tools strive to adhere to industry standards, enable development teams to use 'fit-for-purpose' tools that plug into the stages of their development process that they deem necessary. Borland's tool coverage extends from requirements capture through to system deployment."
"As a long time user of Borland development tools I am delighted that they now offer a market leading solution to the perennial problem of properly integrated requirements capture and management, modeling, development, testing and deployment. I have long campaigned for a seamless and comprehensive development cockpit to optimize on productivity, quality and accuracy in delivering solutions to business needs. I believe Borland's Application Lifecycle is taking aggressive and informed steps towards to this important end goal."
Dr. Cleveland Gibbon, Principle, Acknowledge Technologies, Ltd.
"By using Together Designer's UML [Unified Modeling Language], we're able to develop technical models based on nontechnical business relationships, essentially creating a model that depicts the business requirements precisely."
"I see CaliberRM as being a major aid for us to ensure the features our customers need are detailed thoroughly and even further improving our overall application lifecycle management."
"StarTeam is an essential tool for organizing J2EE development projects and integrates well with JBuilder to increase productivity. It is therefore important to industrialize the processes and ensure their reliability, notably between architects and developers."
"A constantly evolving and increasingly competitive marketing and advertising industry has made improving the speed and accuracy of software application development processes a priority for Critical Mass. The Borland ALM solution is a comprehensive approach that allows us to quickly deliver electronic marketing campaigns, which in turn creates brand loyalty through deeper customer relationships for our clients."
Jerry Johnston, CEO, Critical Mass
Gambro
"Due to some of the new government regulations, we are looking at quite a few different types of reports that we are going to have to generate. Using StarTeam, we are going to be able to do a lot better tracking and auditing of our control process for the government when they come in to audit."
"As part of Six Sigma, our group was seeking ways to improve our quality and efficiency in our development efforts and found that the Borland ALM Solution delivered a quantifiable return in less than four months, we have seen a double digit increase in productivity, our delivery schedules have been compressed, training time and costs decreased and most importantly, the developers are satisfied. The Borland Solution has been a significant contributor to our group's ability to meet Six Sigma metrics."
Srini Seshadri, General Manager, Global Marketing and Product Development, GE Medical Systems
"The benefit you get as a percentage of what you are doing is very high in a small-team environment. In a large-team environment, this kind of productivity tool [CaliberRM and StarTeam] is a must."
"We didn't do anything special. We basically loaded it [Caliber and StarTeam] and we're using it. We didn't have time to do a lot of customization, and we absolutely got productivity out-of-the-box."
"We have been working closely with Borland on improving quality in our development processes at Iberia. Borland was the only vendor able to offer us a state-of-the-art complete application lifecycle management solution, that we could integrate with our existing systems, and that also did not lock us in to any technology or platform. Borland was the only vendor who could demonstrate an efficient solution, based on open standards, that met all of our requirements in our software quality program."
Luis Mariano Casado, Methodology Director, Iberia
"The Borland ALM Solution provides our team with increased control over the development process - crucial in our enterprise with hundreds development team members. The Borland Solution delivers a truly integrated approach to development, enabling management of all our digital artifacts, including requirements."
Steve Morling, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies
"A constantly evolving and increasingly competitive marketing and advertising industry has made improving the speed and accuracy of software application development processes a priority for Critical Mass. The Borland ALM solution is a comprehensive approach that allows us to quickly deliver electronic marketing campaigns, which in turn creates brand loyalty through deeper customer relationships for our clients."
Ronald Mak, Senior Scientist, NASA
"Implementing the entire Borland ALM solution will dramatically increase communication, collaboration and traceability while reducing our time to market."
Ron Wunder, Vice President New Product Development, NDC Health
"Borland Janeva is the ideal way to connect applications built for the .NET Framework with J2EE and CORBA infrastructures for SingTel. We considered using various options to provide this interoperability but our needs required a tight, fine-grained integration, as well as high-performance, fault-tolerant and secure interoperability. We chose Janeva to deliver this level of interoperability with the desired capabilities for SingTel."
Choo Li Chin, Director Unix Product Management, SingTel
"Requirements have increased and government IT budgets have been reduced. Cross-platform process and design is imperative as Federal organizations look to address legacy migration, interoperability and systems integration across Web-enabled and mixed technology environments. We previously offered Rational Software products, but found the superior integration and technology neutrality of Borland products more complimentary to our application development services This helps us to provide customers with a powerful, cost effective development platform and assist compliance with initiatives around the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)."
Ronald Segal, President and CEO, Spectrum Systems
"Since changing to the Borland Solution we have reduced our development and delivery times by 10x… Previously, Protocol Databases took months and even years to deliver. Today, software is delivered at the rate of at least two to three Protocol Databases per month; the time from the first iteration of requirements gathering takes only a few weeks to delivery to the Clinical Researchers of standardized, interoperable, databases with enhanced reporting capabilities."
Steve Young, Software Project Manager, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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"Borland Optimizeit technologies provide a robust end-to-end solution for managing the performance of Java and J2EE applications. The Java Performance Group at Sun routinely uses Optimizeit Suite to ensure that our application code is fast and reliable, and Optimizeit ServerTrace DataCenter to obtain critical information that helps make our Sun Java System Application Server products deliver the fastest web services performance in the industry. The two solutions together provide an unparalleled breadth and depth of performance analysis that is second to none."
Mark Bauhaus, Vice President, Java and Web Services Business Unit, Sun Microsystems
"To stay competitive and really successful in the national defense sector, we need to keep creating high-quality software solutions for our customers. The Borland ALM Solution brings high value to our software development projects. It definitely raises the quality of our products and customer satisfaction."
"We effectively used the integration between CaliberRM and StarTeam to ensure traceability from change requests to requirements, and CaliberRM's Mercury Interactive Test Director integration to ensure traceability from requirements to test cases."
"Borland ALM has given us the ability to ensure success, improve speed and quality, and deliver value to our customers through software development."
Kivanc Dincer, Ph.D., PMP, Head of the Software Development Division
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey
National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE)
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The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey
National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE)
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