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Borland Recognized as a “Leader” by Gartner

For the second year running, Borland, a Micro Focus company, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the 2013 ‘Integrated Software Quality Suites Magic Quadrant’ report. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Showing good market growth over the last 18 months, Borland has continued to innovate in mobile and agile across its Silk Portfolio, with recent extensions to its Silk Mobile, Silk Performer, Silk Central, Silk for use with SAP and Silk WebMeter products.

According to the report, “Testing software can be an expensive process, but poor software quality leads to user dissatisfaction as well as increased development and maintenance. Therefore, having a well-defined set of tools and practices to drive software quality will positively affect the bottom line of a business.”

Archie Roboostoff, Borland Solutions Portfolio Director at Micro Focus, added: “In our view, to be reconfirmed as a leader in the software quality space by Gartner is a testament to our commitment to meeting the changing needs of our customers.

Continuing, Roboostoff said: “Our teams have worked hard to provide a “better together” story with a deeper integrated Silk, Borland and Micro Focus portfolio. We continue to innovate to meet customer expectations of quality today, which go way beyond fixing software bugs. An unprecedented number of customers have already upgraded to take advantage of the new features in Silk, which deliver improved performance, ease of use and the overall user experience.”

Recent innovations to the Borland Silk Portfolio include:

Mobile speed simulations for performance testing, enabling customers to pinpoint issues and understand mobile impact Advanced object recognition across all automation technologies, enabling customers to increase quality across a wider range of application types Test Management usability with the industry’s first test information stream, enabling efficiency and collaboration across all testing teams Capacity planning advice tools, ensuring the right server sizing to better simulate real world scenarios

Borland’s range of software in the distributed testing tool market has full support for the development life cycle, including tools for assessing code quality and integration between requirements and test management. The company has also put a focus on how to deal with crossbrowser/platform issues and with custom controls, as well as added improved support for manual testing in its Silk Central product.

Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites, Thomas E. Murphy, Nathan Wilson, July 11, 2013.

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