Borland increases its support for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and enters into agreements with partners to use Borland technology in Microsoft-related engagements.

BOSTON—Borland Software announced it has strengthened its application lifecycle management support for the Microsoft .Net environment at the Microsoft TechEd conference here.

Cupertino, Calif.-based Borland announced June 13 that it is delivering new versions of its ALM products supporting Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 in such areas of UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling, requirements definition and management, and requirements-driven testing.

Borland has enhanced support for Microsoft's VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) product.

"The ability to properly define and manage requirements across the development life cycle, as supplied by Borland's requirements engineering products for Visual Studio 2005 Team System, is an important value add for our platform," said Ian Knox, lead product manager for Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft, in a statement.

"Working closely with Borland on this effort ensures that our joint customers have the ability to get requirements right from the start, thereby increasing overall quality and minimizing the costly re-work that is so often caused by bad requirements."

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Borland officials said Borland is working with Microsoft on things like joint sales, marketing and engineering integration initiatives around Visual Studio Team System and Borland's RDM (Requirements Definition and Management) products, including Borland Caliber Analyst.

Meanwhile, Borland officials said Borland's Together 2006 for Visual Studio is integrated with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, and provides modeling support including UML 2.0 diagramming, patterns and Borland LiveSource capabilities.

Meanwhile, Borland offers testing support through its SilkTest and SilkCentral Test Manager products.

Borland also announced an agreement with Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, where Avanade will use the Borland RDM products both internally as well as on engagements where their customers use VSTS, the company said.

This article was originally published on eWEEK.com.

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