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CaliberRM

Enterprise software requirements management

CaliberRM® is a requirements management tool that ensures that applications meet end user needs. Using CaliberRM, analysts, developers, testers and other stakeholders accurately capture and communicate changing project requirements throughout the application development lifecycle.

CaliberRM  provides powerful requirements management facilities for the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation of requirements, enabling software teams to deliver on key project milestones with greater accuracy and predictability.

Reduce post delivery rework by up to 40%

Industry analysis suggests that at least half of all defects arise from incomplete or incorrect requirements. More than 80% of the effort to fix defects is spent fixing requirement-related defects. CaliberRM reduces this overhead by providing secure centralized storage of all requirements and related artifacts. Reduced rework leads to exponential savings in unnecessary and avoidable development costs. Rework is reduced as a direct result of increased stakeholder reach and participation in the definition, validation and optimization of requirements. 

Increase development productivity by 20% or more

A complete and unambiguous understanding of what is required ensures that precious developer time is spent building the right thing at all times.

CaliberRM helps build higher quality requirements and promotes collaboration between stakeholders to make sure that the right thing is built first time. When changes occur, robust change management capabilities ensure that changes are executed and managed throughout the lifecycle, and provide a complete audit trail for reporting and visibility. Improved traceability between requirement visualizations and other supporting assets (requirements, documentation, source code, tests, etc.) delivers effective decision support when prioritizing work or performing impact and coverage analysis for proposed changes.

Maximize return on investments in quality

CaliberRM integrates with test management tools including Micro Focus Silk and other leading test tools to ensure that quality efforts align with business needs and that changes to requirements are efficiently communicated to QA teams. CaliberRM helps enforce high quality requirements through rigourous end-to-end traceability, ensuring that all delivered requirements are tested according to end user need.

Secure centralized requirement platformCaliberRM provides a central, secure repository for all project requirements so that all stakeholders are working from one set of requirements.
AdapabilityCaliberRM adapts to fit business processes, bringing speed and agility to the software requirements management process.
End-to-end traceabilityThe open architecture and tight integration with CaliberRDM visualizations inside CaliberRM ensures that all stakeholders have visibility into requirements from inception through to production.
End-to-end impact analysisMultiple methods for visualizing traceability provide immediate understanding of the impact of a specific change.
Role-based accessCaliberRM includes clients for a variety of user interfaces, such as Web browsers, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio and Windows.
Broad integrationsIntegration with other lifecycle products makes it possible to weave software requirements management throughout the product development lifecycle without having to replace existing tool infrastructure.
Align quality effortsRequirements can be integrated with leading test management tools including Silk. QA teams can manage requirement change and jump-start testing efforts faster and earlier in the lifecycle.

Part of the Micro Focus Continuous Quality Assurance approach

Tight integration with CaliberRDM enhances textual requirements with interactive scenarios and simulations that bring requirements to life within the requirements authoring tool.

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Micro Focus technology helped Qinetiq improve the productivity of its development teams and significantly reduce project start-up costs.

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Borland CaliberRM from Micro Focus helps NASDAQ OMX address its complex and growing requirements framework.

Krung Thai Computer Services

Improved testing agility with Micro Focus tools helps KCS work smarter.

Gigatronik

Gigatronik increased customer loyalty and got its products to market faster using StarTeam and CaliberRM to deliver higher quality defect free software.
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