Core SDP suites tailor application lifecycle management for specific organizational roles Borland Software on Monday will introduce software suites customized to specific roles in ALM (application lifecycle management), as part of the company’s SDO (Software Delivery Optimization) strategy.Featuring bits of functionality from existing Borland products such as the CalibreRM requirements management and Together modeling, the Borland Core SDP (Software Delivery Platform) offers suites for business analysts, architects, developers and testers. With SDO, Borland intends to boost success of software development projects through the use of coordinated business processes.“The whole point [of the suites] is to remove the artificial boundary between products and just to provide the right technology to the end-user,” said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of software products at Borland. Previously code-named “Project Themis,” Borland Core SDP provides a collaborative architecture for predictable software development enabling persons in various roles to work together better. Borland Core SDP tool suites being unveiled on Monday include Analyst, which lets business analysts translate business objectives into software requirements; Architect, designed to let architects synchronize specifications, models, and code; Developer, offering a developer-centric view into specifications, change requests, and test cases; and Tester, intended to ensure applications achieve functional compliance and quality goals.Borland’s approach parallels what Microsoft is doing with its proposed Visual Studio Team System product, said analyst Melissa Webster, research director at IDC. “Borland is thinking about how to rethink their packaging so that teams out of the box can get to work,” Webster said.“This [suites packaging] does make it easier for folks to start thinking about buying Borland as an ALM vendor,” Webster added.The initial Core suites for Java are due in March. Software Development