Compuware plans Tuesday to announce Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0, a new version of the company's business requirements management software intended to make it easier to adopt a business requirements management solution. Version 5.0 enhances propagation of requirements to all aspects of the application lifecycle, according to Compuware. Organizations can grow into a sophisticated use of structured requirements, Co Compuware plans Tuesday to announce Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0, a new version of the company’s business requirements management software intended to make it easier to adopt a business requirements management solution.Version 5.0 enhances propagation of requirements to all aspects of the application lifecycle, according to Compuware. Organizations can grow into a sophisticated use of structured requirements, Compuware said. With the 5.0 release, customers can propagate “business intent,” the company said. “What we’ve done is we’ve just put out Optimal Trace 5.0 and it’s kind of important from our perspective because it really offers the ability for customers to completely adopt the tooling for any particular approach,” that they may be using in their environments, said Fergal McGovern, Compuware Optimal Trace product manager. Users who have been using Word documents or Excel spreadsheets to map requirements can import text from these documents or files into the Optimal Trace repository. Managing changes in these types of applications rather than in Optimal Trace is difficult, according to Compuware. Also featured is structural flexibility for tailoring project and package/group structure to the needs of any project, Compuware said. Custom field definitions can be created on the project, package and requirement levels.A simplified list style requirement concept enables for customizable requirements capture and management. Optimal Trace 5.0 is priced at $6,400 per concurrent user or $3,800 per named user. Technology Industry