Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0 Introduces Ability to Customize Project
Structure for all Stakeholder Needs, Enabling Better Collaboration Between
IT and the Business
DETROIT, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq: CPWR) today released Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0, the latest
version of Compuware Optimal's market-leading business requirements
management solution. This new version provides an easy entry into adopting
a business requirements management solution and enables organizations to
grow into a sophisticated use of "structured requirements." It also further
strengthens Compuware Optimal's application delivery management solution by
offering increased capability to propagate business intent through the life
cycle. These capabilities create a quicker and higher return on investment.
Version 5.0 dramatically lowers the barrier of entry for organizations
wishing to achieve requirements process improvement. In environments where
requirements have been captured in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets,
Optimal Trace 5.0 now provides a highly intuitive document and text import
capability that allows virtually any document or file structure to be
rapidly absorbed into the Optimal Trace repository. Leveraging the
business-driven philosophy of Optimal Trace, this yields fast deployment
and rapid adoption of a business-driven approach.
"It is challenging to get stakeholders to take the time to communicate
effectively with business analysts and IT staff," wrote Melinda-Carol
Ballou, Program Director, Application Life-Cycle & ITMS at IDC in her
report titled: Emerging Requirements Market Drives IT/Business
Adaptability. "The emergence of more intuitive tools that are usable by
business executives in conjunction with analysts to capture and codify
requirements is a key step forward."(i)
Optimal Trace 5.0 also introduces complete and unparalleled structural
flexibility for tailoring project and package/group structure to the needs
of any project. This is facilitated by extending the capability to create
custom field definitions on any level, including project, package and
requirement level. Combining this with a new and simplified list style
requirement concept creates a highly customizable requirements capture and
management solution further augmenting Optimal Trace's business-driven
approach.
The capabilities of Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0 enhance the propagation
of requirements to all aspects of the application life cycle. This
business- driven approach is the cornerstone of Compuware Optimal's
application delivery management solution. In addition, this new version
dramatically improves the capability to propagate requirements to
Compuware's Project and Portfolio Management solutions, ensuring complete
alignment with the business.
"IT needs to work collaboratively with the business to elicit effective
requirements and manage them throughout the application life cycle," said
John Williams, Senior Vice President of Product Solutions at Compuware
Corporation. "With Optimal Trace 5.0, business intent is the driving force
in the life cycle, and this is augmented by IT-specific requirements
ensuring an end deliverable that maximizes business impact. Combining
Optimal Trace 5.0 with Compuware's Optimal Delivery Manager provides a
potent mix for any IT manager to effectively communicate and collaborate
with the business."
Compuware Optimal helps IT organizations consistently deliver
high-quality applications to the business. Compuware's business-driven
application delivery approach delivers on business requirements and drives
quality and performance into the application from the earliest phases of
the development life cycle. Using these powerful solutions, IT
organizations can more efficiently and effectively deliver high-quality
applications to maximize business value.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation maximizes the value IT brings to the business by
helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware
solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the
performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and
govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and
employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973,
Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than
90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at
http://www.compuware.com/.
Press Contact
Kayla White-Siefker, Compuware Communications and Investor Relations,
kayla.siefker@compuware.com, 313-227-1402
For Sales and Marketing Information
Compuware Corporation, One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI
48226,800-521-9353, http://www.compuware.com
(i) IDC: "Emerging Requirements Market Drives IT/Business Adaptability"
by Melinda-Carol Ballou, June 2007
SOURCE Compuware Corporation
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