Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL), a global leader for Software Delivery Optimization solutions, announced today that several of the top financial services companies from around the world have recently chosen Borland's solutions to help them achieve the highest value from their software.
These customers include APIR Systems, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Maybank Sdn Bhd, New Zealand Reserve Bank, Scotiabank, TIAA-CREF and Visa International.
Increasing compliance, cost and competitive pressures in the financial sector are pushing companies to invest in the training, tools and processes that can help them deliver quality software on time and within budget. IT leaders within these companies are using Borland's product and service offerings to unite stakeholders throughout the software delivery cycle, and to increase their visibility into and control over the entire application development process. By making software delivery a more managed business process, financial companies can not only improve the predictability and quality of their software, but also increase the value of that software to their business.
Scotiabank, one of Canada's leading financial institutions, recently began leveraging the combined benefits of Borland's JBuilder Java development environment and Borland's Together enterprise-level modeling solution to speed the delivery of top-quality software. Scotiabank, which employs 48,000 employees in some 50 countries, required a fully integrated software development solution that could scale and work seamlessly across large teams.
Borland's application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions are designed to align a financial institution's software capabilities with their operational needs, and in turn provide visibility across the software lifecycle. In addition, Borland's ability to work across platforms - such as Microsoft .NET, Windows, Java and legacy systems - enables organizations to exploit the investments they've already made and ensure they have the flexibility to leverage new technologies in the future.
"Borland is playing an increasing role in financial institutions around the world, helping them to simplify their complex development environments and keep pace with rapid changes in business demands," said Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer at Borland. "It's not an easy task to balance these demands and still manage the risks inherent in software development. As a way to optimize software development efforts and manage these risks, institutions are turning to Borland's requirements management, change management, modeling and process-centric development solutions."
Australia-based APIR, a financial services coding agency, has been using Borland support and ALM solutions for almost four years. According to Marcus Jowsey, technical manager at APIR Systems Limited, "While we know Borland offers the best technologies for our purposes, the proof really is in the fact that their solutions are now a critical component across the Australian financial services industry."
APIR recently selected Borland CaliberRM and Together Designer to collect, model and manage their technical and business requirements for application development. These products were chosen to enhance APIR's already proven capability to develop crucial software on time and to specification. Jowsey continued, "I see CaliberRM as being a major aid for us to ensure the features our customers need are detailed thoroughly. And by using Together in conjunction with CaliberRM, we're able to develop technical models based on non-technical business relationships, giving us a graphical way to precisely depict our business requirements."