Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration(TM)

Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ is about leveraging rich requirements definition, simulation, and validation to dramatically accelerate key areas of the software development lifecycle. Modern Global 2000 companies rely on IT applications to automate key facets of business processes – as such, the lines are blurring between business needs and software applications. 

Application Blueprints ensure success.
Taking a page from engineering disciplines,  in order to ensure success, a well-defined project initiation practice is to produce a validated blueprint before any development or construction begins. This is the degree of care needed whether teams are constructing a 21st century high-rise or building a next generation of micro-processor.

For mission-critical business applications, facilitating development with rich requirements definitions, agreed upon simulations,  and structured validation empowers modern teams to build applications right the first time.  Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ is about leveraging strategic touch points to populate enterprise SDLC tools with accurate information to accelerate time to market, reduce cost, and reduce risk.   

A New Approach for a new kind of IT Application.
New projects are faced with more complex business and technology challenges than ever before.  These challenges include:

As a result of the risk and rework (cost & time) associated with these challenges and pressures, IT organizations are looking to improve the process in which requirements are gathered and validated, application change is managed, and application quality is assured.

There is an emerging category of solutions designed to address these trends directly, it is collectively referred to as Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ or RLA ™. Blueprint™ provides the industry's first packaged solution for RLA™ with Blueprint Requirements Center 2007™.

The Requirements Lifecycle

Blueprint empowers organizations to clearly, accurately, and precisely define business requirements by empowering the business analyst with a complete workbench. With Blueprint Requirements Center 2009, organizations have the ability to automate the processes of requirements elicitation, elaboration, validation, and acceptance. Through Blueprint’s patented transformation algorithms, Business Analysts can deliver final and “ready to be consumed” requirements assets through deep integrations with leading ALM solutions, custom Microsoft Office documents, and intranet portals.

About Blueprint

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 in Europe.