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Borland Software Corp.
(831)
431-1000
100
Enterprise Way
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
www.borland.com
Sales
$295
million
Business Description
We are a leading global provider of software development and deployment
solutions that are designed to accelerate the application development
lifecycle. We provide our customers solutions that help them deliver better
software faster and manage software development projects from beginning to
end. By connecting managers, testers, designers and developers, our
solutions are designed to improve software quality, accelerate the delivery
of software, lower the cost of ownership and reduce risk. We have an
installed base of over three million global users that includes leading high
technology, telecommunications, government contracting and financial
services enterprises.
Businesses use technology to maximize their productivity, and thereby
increase the enterprise’s profitability. Enterprises are increasingly
demanding more speed, more reliability and a higher return on investment
from the software that facilitates their businesses. In this environment of
heightened expectations, existing “point solutions” that help developers
only with a particular aspect of the application development lifecycle or
solutions that rely exclusively on one technology platform are proving
inadequate for the complex needs of development teams. We believe
enterprises are turning to integrated development solutions that help
development teams deliver high quality software quickly.
Our
Integrated Suite of Products
Our integrated suite of products is designed to assist in the rapid and
effective development and deployment of software applications critical to
our customers’ businesses. Our integrated development solutions are designed
to address the various dimensions of an application’s lifecycle—definition,
design, development, testing and deployment—and to provide valuable software
configuration management capabilities. We believe our integrated suite
enhances development team productivity, ensures higher-quality code and
reduces the total cost of ownership.
Definition Products. CaliberRM is our web-based requirements management
system that manages the evolution of software requirements as well as the
relationship between requirements and documentation, tests, models and code.
Once the requirements are captured in CaliberRM, the development,
documentation, test creation and project management processes can begin in
parallel. With CaliberRM, requirements volatility is made evident, teams can
avoid working from stale requirements, developers avoid costly and
time-consuming rework, and as a result, developers can build the desired
features to meet business needs.
Design Products. Our Together family of products provides modeling
capabilities to help create and communicate better software architecture
throughout the application development lifecycle. The Together family of
products includes live synchronization between the UML model and the
application code to ensure that changes made to the application code are
immediately reflected in visual model designs. This enables developers to
collaborate across modeling and code development disciplines, and
consequently enables improved developer productivity, reduced development
time and higher quality applications. Supporting most leading Java 2
Enterprise Edition, or J2EE, platform environments, including IBM WebSphere,
BEA WebLogic, Sun, Apple and Jboss, Together products also perform
integrated model-to-code audits that assist developers in building
maintainable and higher-quality code.
Development Products. For the development phase, we offer integrated
development environments, or IDEs, for the following platforms: Java,
Windows/.NET, Linux and C++. Our IDEs are designed to provide easy-to-use
aides, templates and utilities for developers to rapidly build and
troubleshoot complex software applications.
Java Solutions. JBuilder is a leading cross-platform environment for
building industrial-strength Java applications. JBuilder is designed to
speed the development of Java applications, deliver web applications faster,
increase code reliability and develop applications for deployment on
Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X platforms.
Windows/.NET Solutions. We provide a number of IDEs designed to support the
rapid delivery of high quality Windows applications as well as applications
designed for the .NET Framework. Delphi is designed to allow developers to
deliver high quality Windows applications quickly and to port those
applications to the .NET Framework. C++Builder is our C++ language
development environment that is designed to provide American National
Standards Institute, or ANSI, standard development of high-quality Windows
applications. C#Builder is our IDE focused on the needs of developers
designing software for the emerging .NET Framework.
Linux Solutions. Kylix is our Linux IDE that is equipped with C++ and Delphi
languages to assist developers in building rapid application development
solutions and to port those applications cross-platform to Linux.
Testing Products. Our Optimizeit family of performance management solutions
is designed to improve the quality of the code developed by providing
profiling and memory debugging to help eliminate performance bottlenecks,
thread debugging to detect code deadlocks, and code coverage to locate
untested code and identify dead code. Our Optimizeit family of solutions
includes Optimizeit Suite, which is designed to identify performance and
testing problems in Java applications; Optimizeit Enterprise Suite, which is
designed to isolate performance hazards during the development of J2EE
applications; Optimizeit ServerTrace, our pre-deployment phase testing
solution designed to help customers identify performance hazards before they
deploy J2EE applications; and Optimizeit Profiler for .NET, which is
designed to provide performance management capabilities such as CPU and
memory usage analysis for .NET managed code.
Software Configuration Management, or SCM, Products. To manage the
particular tasks of the application development lifecycle, we offer our
customers StarTeam, a leading SCM and change management solution that puts
control of the development process in the hands of project teams. By
providing users with access to all project assets through a central
repository, StarTeam allows teams to manage development projects by
providing them with a single repository for managing requirements, resources
and changes, tracking defects and threaded discussions, and managing the
tasks required for effective project management. With its web-based
architecture, data encryption and compression capabilities, we believe
StarTeam is a particularly well suited for managing increasingly dispersed
development teams.
Deployment Products. We provide our customers with solutions that help them
deploy and manage their e-business applications by providing them with
embedded databases and allowing personal digital assistants, or PDAs, and
other devices that incorporate embedded computers to be integrated with
enterprise applications. Our deployment solutions include VisiBroker, our
common object request broker architecture (CORBA) solution for distributed
object computing; Borland Enterprise Server/AppServer Edition, our J2EE 1.3
compliant application server; VisiBroker–RT, our CORBA solution for embedded
devices; Janeva, which provides customers with secure, high performance
interoperability between .NET and CORBA/J2EE technologies; and Deployment
OpCenter, a deployment solution designed to provide the bridge between
development and deployment in the complex, distributed production
environment.
Professional Services
In addition to our award winning products, we offer consulting, training and
certification services, as well as comprehensive technical support
capabilities. Services provided by our Professional Services Organization
include:
Consulting services. We offer a variety of both packaged and custom
consulting services that include architectural assessment, prototyping,
legacy migration, application integration, performance evaluation,
application deployment and data conversions. In addition, we work with
third-party consulting firms and systems integrators that provide
reengineering, technology assessments, customization, project management and
implementation services.
Training services. We offer education and training services to assist
customers in learning about current technology trends and our products.
These programs range from introductory sessions to highly advanced seminars.
Support services. We provide a range of support services covering
application development, deployment and integration issues. We offer such
services on site or remotely from our support centers in the U.S., Singapore
and the Netherlands. Customers can choose the level of support—from
personalized support for large corporations to minimum assistance levels for
small businesses.
Certification services. Our certification program permits individuals and
companies to become Borland Product Certified or a Certified Borland
Instructor. The product certification exam tests for knowledge of a Borland
product’s features and associated technologies and its use in developing
software applications.
Customers
Our customers range from leading Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies to
individual developers. We are increasingly targeting enterprise customers
and count as our customers leading financial services, high technology,
government contractors and telecommunications enterprises. No customer
accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue for the year ended December
31, 2003. Ingram Micro, a reseller, accounted for approximately 12% and 13%
of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2002 and 2001,
respectively. We have a number of separate agreements with various regional
Ingram Micro distributors to act as a distributor of our products to
resellers. Each agreement is non-exclusive. The agreements generally renew
on an annual basis unless prior notice is given.
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