New Caliber Release from Micro Focus Ensures Requirements Clarity from Inception to Production
Announcement posted by Micro Focus 19 Mar 2012
Caliber 10.1 release provides a comprehensive end-to-end requirements definition and management solution
Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company’s Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organisations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software.
There is often a void today between what applications the business requires and what is eventually produced by the IT department. Reports have shown that a considerable amount of software projects fail due to a lack of requirements, resource and realistic timings, with findings that the average organization is risking approximately US$74 million each year in IT projects . The focus of Caliber 10.1 on providing improved end-to-end requirements integration means that organisations are able to develop the right software the business needs, from the outset, removing the costs that are associated with risk. It helps establish early and ongoing involvement from all stakeholders, thereby ensuring that developer managers and business analysts can effectively manage expectations and bridge the gap that often exist between business and IT.
New capabilities in Caliber 10.1 include a tighter integration between CaliberRM and CaliberRDM. The synergy between visual and text-based requirements provides better shared goals for all stakeholders, giving the software development and business analyst teams the tools needed to establish implementation consensus early on and then maintain a common vision. Using Caliber 10.1, requirements changes and traceability can be managed from inception to production, resulting in higher predictability and quality.
“Caliber is about managing ideas and making sure inspiration captured on a whiteboard finds its way into a finished product,” said Bruce Craig, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Micro Focus. “Some businesses still mismanage their requirements process and as a result sometimes have their business and development teams out of sync. Caliber keeps everyone in sync by encouraging wider participation and collaboration between analysts and developers in the definition, validation and optimisation of requirements. It’s an agile solution that gives organisations the control to capture and track the right requirements throughout all stages of development thereby ensuring the business keeps its competitive edge.”
For more information on Caliber 10.1, including case studies and whitepapers, visit the Caliber solution site. Also visit the new Caliber Blog for video coverage and further news.
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernisation, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.
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There is often a void today between what applications the business requires and what is eventually produced by the IT department. Reports have shown that a considerable amount of software projects fail due to a lack of requirements, resource and realistic timings, with findings that the average organization is risking approximately US$74 million each year in IT projects . The focus of Caliber 10.1 on providing improved end-to-end requirements integration means that organisations are able to develop the right software the business needs, from the outset, removing the costs that are associated with risk. It helps establish early and ongoing involvement from all stakeholders, thereby ensuring that developer managers and business analysts can effectively manage expectations and bridge the gap that often exist between business and IT.
New capabilities in Caliber 10.1 include a tighter integration between CaliberRM and CaliberRDM. The synergy between visual and text-based requirements provides better shared goals for all stakeholders, giving the software development and business analyst teams the tools needed to establish implementation consensus early on and then maintain a common vision. Using Caliber 10.1, requirements changes and traceability can be managed from inception to production, resulting in higher predictability and quality.
“Caliber is about managing ideas and making sure inspiration captured on a whiteboard finds its way into a finished product,” said Bruce Craig, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Micro Focus. “Some businesses still mismanage their requirements process and as a result sometimes have their business and development teams out of sync. Caliber keeps everyone in sync by encouraging wider participation and collaboration between analysts and developers in the definition, validation and optimisation of requirements. It’s an agile solution that gives organisations the control to capture and track the right requirements throughout all stages of development thereby ensuring the business keeps its competitive edge.”
For more information on Caliber 10.1, including case studies and whitepapers, visit the Caliber solution site. Also visit the new Caliber Blog for video coverage and further news.
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernisation, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.
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