Borland and RADTAC Partner to Deliver Turnkey Agile Transformation Solutions


TWYFORD, England, July 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agile Consulting and Training Expert Offers Pragmatic Approach to 
Organisational Change; ALM Leader's Management Framework Tracks, Measures 
and Improves Delivery Processes

Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, http://www.borland.com), the 
global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and RADTAC 
(http://www.radtac.co.uk), a leading UK-based IT services organisation 
focused on IT transformation, today announced a partnership that will 
provide enterprise customers a complete offering of services and technology 
to design, implement, support and measure an enterprise Agile 
transformation.

Also today, Borland introduced Borland Management Solutions (BMS), a
software delivery management platform that will enable customers to better
orchestrate, measure, predict and improve the performance of their software
delivery organisations. Leveraging the Borland Open ALM Framework, BMS plugs
into a customer's existing ALM tooling infrastructure, providing an ALM
management "cockpit" that gives unprecedented visibility and control over the
entire application lifecycle. (Editor's Note: See Press Release "Borland
Management Solutions Put the "M" in Application Lifecycle Management")
(http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2008/07_14_08_borland_management_solutions.html)

The momentum Agile is generating in the market has many enterprise IT
executives investigating and implementing Agile practices. However, for
enterprises to realise the full potential benefits of Agile methods, they
need to scale their use of Agile beyond individual projects and teams,
rolling it out in a widespread fashion across the organisation. RADTAC
pioneered enterprise-wide Agile enablement in the 1990s, developing the
PragmaticAgileTM approach to transformation. Having embarked on its own Agile
transformation, Borland understands many of the challenges enterprises face
when adopting more Agile approaches and developed the Borland Management
Solutions to support enterprises through these transitions.

"Smarter organisations seeking to increase their use of Agile often still
need to operate in a wider environment alongside less Agile approaches and
more traditional ways of working," said Les Oliver, Business Development
Director of RADTAC. "Borland's Management Solutions provide a platform that
can support this reality, enabling customers to manage, measure and track the
performance of both Agile and traditional projects. Our real-world experience
and understanding, of integrating and working within these environments have
been key to our success, and we believe Borland shares our philosophy towards
enterprise transformation, and thus is a natural partner for RADTAC."

Borland TeamFocus, one of three products in the Borland Management
Solution, is a project execution environment that supports both Agile and
more traditional delivery approaches. It allows Agile teams to plan and
execute their Agile projects while gathering key progress metrics that give
organisations that are making Agile transitions the ability to monitor and
evaluate the performance of their Agile teams.

"Borland's driving mission is to help transform software delivery into a
managed and predictable process," said Andy Seager, Vice President of
Marketing - EMEA for Borland. "For an increasing number of organisations,
adopting more Agile approaches has become part of their efforts to achieve
this goal. A transformation to Agile on an enterprise scale is not a one size
fits all proposition. RADTAC's enterprise Agile enablement services have
helped hundreds of companies with their organisational transformation, and we
look forward to supporting these programs with the technology solutions that
will support their processes while increasing visibility and control."

Availability

Borland's Management Solutions are expected to be generally available in
Autumn 2008.

- Get more information (http://www.borland.com/us/solutions/software-delivery-management/index.html)

- See a demo (http://www.borland.com/media/en/bms-demo/index.html)

- Download images (http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2008/07_14_08_borland_management_solutions.html)

Virtual Video Launch: To see BMS in action and to hear from the Borland
executives and engineers behind the Borland Management Solutions, please tune
in on July 14 at 15:00 GMT:
http://event.on24.com/event/11/39/15/rt/index.html

About RADTAC

RADTAC has many years experience in working with smarter companies to
deliver successful IT transformation. To enable our clients to transform
their IT and business capabilities, we provide a comprehensive range of
Consulting, Training and Delivery Services in the key areas of IT that are
needed by the smarter business of today - and of tomorrow.
http://www.radtac.co.uk

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) is the leading vendor of Open
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers'
processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility to manage, measure
and improve the software delivery process. To learn more about maximising the
business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.

Borland, TeamDemand, TeamFocus, TeamAnalytics and all other Borland brand
and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of
Borland Software Corporation or its subsidiaries 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
features available in, and the potential benefits to be derived from, Borland
products and solutions, and the release dates, plans and market acceptance of
such products and solutions, including the Borland Silk 2008 product line and
other Borland Open ALM products and solutions. 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, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in Borland's ability to
deliver its products and services, software errors or announcements by
competitors. 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
http://www.sec.gov. Borland is under no obligation to update its 
forward-looking statements. Information contained in our website is not 
incorporated by reference in, or made part of this press release.

Company Contacts: 
    
    John McCann,
    Borland Software Corporation, 
    +44(0)1189-412120, 
    john.mccann@borland.com
    
    Les Oliver, 
    RADTAC, 
    +44(0)7974-123-153, 
    les.oliver@radtac.co.uk
    
    Tom Holland, 
    Brands2Life, 
    +44(0)207-592-1200, 
    tom.holland@brands2life.com



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