Borland's CaliberRM product will work seamlessly with Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System when it emerges on the market next year and Microsoft shops begin to migrate to it from Visual Studio. CaliberRM will provide one of the first fully-integrated requirements management solution for Visual Studio Team System in fact, said Borland today at Tech·Ed 2005.

Visual Studio customers, Borland noted, will soon be able to leverage CaliberRM from within their Team System environment to define and manage business, technology, operational and compliance-related requirements, helping to align project stakeholders and improve project success even in the face of constant change.

As Visual Studio Team System emerges on the market next year and Microsoft shops begin to migrate from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Team System, continued opportunities exist for those vendors able to deliver value in areas not directly addressed by Team System, including requirements management," said Bola Rotibi, senior analyst, application lifecycle at Ovum. "With Visual Studio .NET and Eclipse emerging as the de facto development environments now and in the foreseeable future, it is especially critical for vendors to provide a common set of capabilities that can be leveraged across heterogeneous development platforms, which will continue to play a major role within the enterprise landscape."

Borland's award-winning CaliberRM requirements management solution is designed to provide Microsoft teams with a comprehensive way to manage requirements throughout the application lifecycle, enabling teams to select the right software projects, apply the right resources and adjust projects as they progress through different phases and roles in the development process.

In other news, CaliberRM was named best application lifecycle management (ALM) tool in the 2005 MSD2D "People's Choice" awards, which recognize the best products and companies serving the .NET community.

"The ability to define, manage and communicate requirements across the development team is a key contributor to the success of any software project," said Rick LaPlante, general manager of Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft Corp. "With so many of our joint customers already using CaliberRM technology, Microsoft is excited that Borland will integrate the technology into Visual Studio Team System. Our customers will benefit greatly from the ease-of-use, unique project estimation and advanced requirements management functionality CaliberRM delivers to Team System users."