Creating Competitive Advantage
Industry analysts tell us that more than 50% of IT projects don’t deliver as promised.
What if you could beat those odds time after time?
What if you could reduce development cycles and at the same time increase your success rate?
What if you could leverage your people’s expertise in a more efficient manner effectively extending their capacity without burning them out?
What if you could leverage your existing tools investment while extending the capabilities of those tools?
What sort of competitive advantage could you then create?
Req-X™ enables organizations to define, refine, and reuse software requirements assets so that businesses can garner ongoing component improvement and lower application development costs.
By interfacing with CaliberRM™ and creating reusable software feature and component definitions, this task-based application guides business analysts and software architects on reuse methodology by enabling visualization of requirement relationships, permitting identification of requirement assets, and supporting collaboration among disparate systems and stakeholders.
The Req-X™ Advantage for Existing CaliberRM™ Customers
Enhanced Caliber Administration and Management
Req-X™ provides the ability to manage, move, copy, and transfer large numbers of requirements within projects, and between projects, on the same server or amongst multiple CaliberRM™ servers providing greater enterprise-wide availability and visibility of requirement assets.
Configuration Management
Req-X™ provides CM-style features like check-out, check-in, clone, and delete to and from a central requirements reuse repository effectively extending CaliberRM™ capabilities.
Improved Data Import/Export
Req-X™ provides robust import / export mechanisms with granular filtering capability.
Enhanced Reporting
Req-X™ creates dynamic reports based on an XML / XSLT process. Reports can be generated in a variety of formats including: HTML, XML, Text Delimited, and RTF. Reports can be based on any data view provided by CaliberRM™ or on the powerful Req-X™ Hierarchical View in which all Parent/Child and Trace Relationships can be easily navigated and reported.
Requirements Reintroduction
Req-X™ provides a repeatable and predictable mechanism for defining, refining, and reusing requirements across the product line, group, or enterprise allowing you to:
- Streamline production and increase quality by reusing well vetted requirement assets, thus reducing errors and development rework
- Leverage subject matter expertise across the product line, group, or enterprise
- Enable more effective standards and policy enforcement
Table: The Req-X™ Advantage for CaliberRM™ Customers
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Borland® CaliberRM™ |
ProcessExchange® Req-X™ |
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Cross-server Support
Multiple Project Support |
CaliberRM™ manages requirements as discreet entities within the context of a single project on a single server instance where relationships and traceability are maintained. |
Req-X™ enables transfer and sharing of individual and groups of requirements amongst other CaliberRM™ projects, and amongst other CaliberRM™ servers in both an offline and online capacity. This is vital for requirement assets to be shared and distributed across large organizations; supporting remote locations. |
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Requirements Reuse |
CaliberRM™ supports sharing and mapping of requirements one at a time. |
Req-X™ enables reuse of individual or large, complex sets of requirement assets amongst multiple servers (server to server). |
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Management / Delete |
CaliberRM™ requires users to delete requirement entities one at a time. |
Req-X™ imparts users with powerful, yet simple, visualization of requirements hierarchies and traces allowing Administrators to delete entire sets of requirements in one motion. |
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Transfer, Refactoring, and Maintenance |
CaliberRM™ accomplishes transfers using the import and export utilities, RMImport and RMExport via a non-extendable, closed format. |
Req-X™ allows real-time and selectable transfers from CaliberRM™ server to CaliberRM™ server. Transfer can be live or can be accomplished via import and export. This allows analysts to reorganize requirements in real-time. Requirements can be transferred to different Requirement Types and UDA’s based on an XML map. |
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Import / Export / Validation / Transformation |
CaliberRM™ utilities, RMImport, RMExport, and DocFactory allow for simple filtering and closed format requirements transfer. |
Req-X™ export process consists of a file browser and a simple selection checkbox, giving users the ability to fine-tune the export through the use of filters and validation. The export process also lets a user add additional rule-based validation, filtering, and translation for both importing and exporting. |
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Reporting |
CaliberRM™ provides a standard set of HTML reports, or static Word reports via DocFactory. |
Req-X™ creates dynamic reports in a variety of formats based either on standard CaliberRM™ data views or on Req-X™ expanded viewing capabilities. |
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