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Borland Extends Benefits of Modeling Across Software Development Teams

Borland's Role-Specific Together Modeling Solutions To Provide 'Visual' Glimpse of Software Delivery Optimization

Vancouver (OOPSLA Conference 2004) - Oct 25, 2004 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: NM: BORL) today announced the vision and strategy for its Together® modeling solutions, the visual design component of Borland's upcoming Software Delivery Optimization platform, codenamed "Themis." Of particular significance, Borland introduced its new role-specific product set optimized to help architects, designers and developers more easily examine, analyze and communicate design information across teams. This collaborative approach offers the many benefits of modeling, while making it more approachable to all stakeholders within the software delivery process.

"Visual design plays a crucial role in decreasing the complexity of applications and architectures, reducing risk, increasing quality and improving team communication," said Raaj Shinde, vice president and general manager of Borland's Together Business Unit. "Therefore, it should come as no surprise that modeling is an underlying component of our Software Delivery Optimization vision – a vision that aligns teams, technology and processes to maximize the business value of software. Modeling is, and will continue to be, an important investment for Borland as well as for those customers who need increasingly agile applications and systems."

Delivering on the Together Vision Today

The first of Borland's role-based solutions, Together Architect, Together Designer 2005 and Together Developer 2005, will begin delivering on elements of Borland's recently announced vision for Software Delivery Optimization. Together technology will also serve as the modeling foundation within the first iteration of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization platform, "Themis," expected to be available in the first half of 2005.

  • Borland Together Architectis an evolution of Borland's industry-leading Together ControlCenter product and will ultimately be the most comprehensive offering in the Together line. It offers a complete Unified Modeling Language (UML®) visual design solution for software architects who design, develop and communicate enterprise application architectures in concert with development and business stakeholders. Together Architect offers the powerful capability to create platform-specific UML models for a number of different programming languages, and will efficiently combine the capabilities of both Together Designer and Together Developer.
  • Borland Together Designeris a new easy-to-use, stand-alone modeling solution for business analysts and others who design applications according to business-defined requirements. The ability to create models in a design-only language (Platform Independent Modeling or PIM) that can be easily transformed into executable platform-specific models is designed to facilitate more agile applications that can keep pace with changing requirements. Designer gives users Object Constraint Language (OCL) and UML 2.0 support for specifying business and technical requirements in UML models, which Borland believes makes an excellent foundation for Model Driven Architectures (MDA). Together Designer supports both UML 1.4 and UML 2.0 from a single interface and offers tight integration with requirements management tools, such as Borland's leading CaliberRM™ product.
  • Borland Together Developeris a code-centric modeling solution for software developers, which helps significantly reduce the complexity of applications and architectures. Together Developer includes embedded IDE integration so developers can simplify and augment their understanding of application design by visualizing the code. Together LiveSource™ technology automatically transforms and synchronizes models and code to ensure they are always in-synch, and can reverse engineer existing applications so developers can use models to decipher existing code. Support for new standards, quality assurance audits, and the ability to search through source code to recognize and locate implemented patterns all contribute to enhanced productivity.

A Model Future for Software Delivery

Borland's vision for Software Delivery Optimization transitions software development into a more manageable business process, helping enable organizations become increasingly responsive to business needs. By aligning teams, technology and processes, organizations are better equipped to deliver quality software, on-time, within budget and in-line with business priorities. Borland's Together product line will continue to evolve in support of this vision, helping to expand the role of modeling in the software process by:

  • Narrowing the gap between development and business teams:Borland's Together solutions are designed to help bridge business and development teams through collaborative role-specific environments, support for higher level abstractions and by extending modeling capabilities to business processes, workflow and deployment.
  • Aligning modeling technologies and development processes:Borland's Together solutions will continue to integrate modeling throughout the application lifecycle, as well as provide the ability to audit both source code and the models themselves. This should help improve software quality and create new efficiencies in the software delivery process. Future products are also expected to improve analysis by linking internal code metrics to external processes and performance metrics.
  • Making modeling more approachable throughout software delivery:Through its role-based evolution, the Together product set is designed to provide a more targeted and appealing environment for the various roles that require modeling. The products will help disaggregate UML into more consumable components and support customized and domain-specific processes and architectures (such as "Software Factories"). Additionally, the development of new standards, and the interoperability and advancements these standards provide, will continue to be an important focus for Borland.

The Borland Together products continue the Borland tradition of offering choice and flexibility to customers, integrating with most of today's leading integrated development environments including Borland JBuilder®, Borland C++ Builder®, Microsoft Visual Studio for .NET, Eclipse and SAP Netweaver™ Studio. The Together product line also supports the entire application lifecycle, helping provide seamless transitions from one phase to the next and closely integrating with Borland CaliberRM for requirements management and Borland StarTeam®, as well as other Software Configuration Management systems.

Modeling Market Primed to Thrive

IDC expects the market for analysis, modeling and design tools to reach at least $753 million by 2008, citing growing interest in developing Service Oriented Architectures, translating complex specifications into code ("software archeology") and the need to drive greater efficiencies across the software development process as growth factors 1.

"Modeling has long been viewed as a viable and efficient way to create high-quality, adaptable applications that more closely align to business objectives," said Steve McClure, research vice president of the Software Research Group at IDC. "However, it hasn't seen the dramatic growth many expected because today's de-facto modeling standard, UML, is perceived as too detailed and heavyweight for most day-to-day operations. Any organization that can marry the benefits of UML with a more practical approach will make significant inroads for modeling and offer great benefit to development organizations."

Availability

Together Architect is available immediately. Together Designer 2005 and Together Developer 2005 are currently expected to be available in November and December respectively. For more information and features on the new Together products please visit www.borland.com/us/products/together/index.html .

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) is the global leader in platform independent solutions for software delivery optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the teams, technology and processes required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit: http://www.borland.com.

Together JBuilder, C++Builder, CaliberRM, StarTeam and LiveSource are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. Visual Studio is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor Statement

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the U.S. Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to, the anticipated dates of availability of Together Designer 2005 and Together Developer 2005, the projected acceptance by existing or potential customers of Together products, the potential features of Together Designer 2005 and Together Developer 2005, or benefits to be derived from Together Architect, Designer 2005 and Together Developer 2005. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, the following: rapid technological change that can adversely affect the demand for Borland products, shifts in customer demand, delays in actions or announcements by competitors, and software errors. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Borland periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. Borland is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

1IDC, "Worldwide Analysis, Modeling, Design Tools 2004-2008 Forecast Update," July 2004