Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Solutions

Borland becomes part of Micro Focus

With the acquisition of Borland Software, Micro Focus offers an extensive range of solutions designed to help global organizations manage and improve software delivery through Open Application Lifecycle Management (Open ALM). Whether utilizing agile, iterative or waterfall approaches, these combined technologies bring together software delivery best practices, real-life customer successes and innovative technology to address the complexity faced by today’s software organizations. Our areas of focus are:

• Requirements Definition & Management
• Lifecycle Quality Management
• Change Management

Focusing on these critical processes improves visibility and manageability, leading directly to increased quality, reliability and, ultimately, predictability over the entire software delivery process.

Requirements Definition & Management

Deliver software right the first time, every time by ensuring business-IT alignment throughout the software lifecycle. With Micro Focus’ Requirements Definition & Management (RDM) solutions, business analysts and stakeholders can join forces to simulate, document, validate and manage requirements. Unlike traditional methods that offer partial success and often promote communication barriers, effective RDM solutions bring software requirements to life, allowing your development organization to save up to 40% of its total project spend.

Lifecycle Quality Management

Revolutionize your approach to software quality by improving it across every phase of the software delivery lifecycle. Micro Focus’ comprehensive, proactive approach to Lifecycle Quality Management supports incremental or systemic improvements to the QA process, ensuring that quality is addressed by requirements, measured and improved during development, maximized with appropriate test automation and managed with an open, scalable framework.

Change Management

Help software teams remain fluid and responsive to the changing business needs. Embracing change and dealing with it promptly increases your organization’s business agility, a significant advantage in today’s fast-changing business world. With Micro Focus’ Change Management solution, geographically distributed and centralized software teams can control and orchestrate change throughout the application lifecycle. Teams can also eliminate communication breakdowns and disorganization by leveraging best practices when managing project activities and associated digital assets.

A Unique Process-Driven Approach to Improving Software Delivery

Micro Focus’ solutions approach is unique because it looks at an organization’s process maturity and leverages industry best practices to evaluate current performance and identify specific improvement areas.

• Best-in-class processes backed by pre-built templates, assessment tools, a knowledgebase of process models, implementation toolkits, a proven project management approach and a repository of best practices
• Technology to efficiently automate and enforce those processes
• Skills training to ensure successful adoption of the processes and technology.