Blueprint Attains Gold Business Partner Status and Product Certification From HP

Certified Integration Helps Customers Reduce Time and Effort to Deliver Higher Quality Software

TORONTO–(EMWNews – August 18, 2008) – Blueprint, a leading provider of requirements solutions for software

business analysts, today

announced it is now an HP Gold Business Partner. The Blueprint Requirements

Center — the company’s flagship product — is now an HP-certified software

application, having passed software certification testing by HP, and is

ready for integration with HP Test Director for Quality Center. As a

result, customers can expect software that better meets business needs

through the elicitation and subsequent validation of requirements.

Today’s IT applications are leveraged in every facet of business

operations. The risk of application failure or delay must be controlled at

all points in the software lifecycle, beginning with the cornerstone of

requirements. By using the integrated requirements and testing solution,

customers are able to:

--  Automatically generate tests from requirements

--  Dramatically reduce test case preparation time and effort

--  Deliver higher quality requirements and tests

--  Enables vastly superior software delivery, as the true business

    requirements are elicited and subsequently validated

    

“Blueprint is the first requirements partner to achieve this level of HP

integration and certification, which opens the door for customers to

combine the strength of requirements and test definition features from

Blueprint Requirements Center with those of the HP Quality Center,” said

Tony Higgins, vice president of products at Blueprint. “In effect, we’ve

connected the business analyst’s workbench to the quality assurance

professional’s workbench, removing the errors and miscommunication that

typically obstruct this crucial control point in the development

lifecycle.”

“Customers can save time and deliver higher quality applications that meet

the needs of the business through strong requirements definition and

validation,” said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products, Software,

HP. “With HP Quality Center and Blueprint Requirements Center, IT

organizations can implement a seamless, traceable lifecycle solution from

initial requirements elicitation through application delivery.”

About Blueprint Requirements Center

Blueprint Requirements Center empowers business analysts to employ a

lifecycle approach to requirements definition by automating the phases of

requirements elicitation, elaboration, validation, and acceptance.

Blueprint Requirements Center leverages patented modeling and simulation

technology to capture initial requirements concepts and to enable

non-technical users to create software simulations of proposed solutions.

Integrated feedback and discussions foster collaboration around the

requirements, helping ensure issues are surfaced and resolved early. The

result is dramatically higher levels of quality and precision in the

requirements. Tests automatically generated from the requirements inherit

these qualities and have traceability established automatically. The

transition of this high-quality requirements and test content to HP Quality

Center provides a sound basis for IT delivery teams to ensure software

projects meet business goals.

For more information about the Blueprint and HP integration, please visit:

http://www.blueprintsys.com/product_rc_qc.php.

About Blueprint

Named a “Cool Vendor” in Application Development by leading analyst firm

Gartner, Blueprint aligns business and IT teams by delivering the

industry’s leading requirements suite designed specifically for the

business analyst. Blueprint solutions empower analyst teams to eliminate

requirements misunderstanding by capturing, validating, and delivering

precise business requirements to local or distributed IT application

project teams. Blueprint’s product line functions as a collaborative system

for the requirements lifecycle, including requirements elicitation,

elaboration, validation, and acceptance. Blueprint is a global provider,

with presence in the United States, Canada, and Europe. For more

information on Blueprint, visit http://www.blueprintsys.com.