Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst™.

Leverage Requirements Definition to Eliminate Rework
Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst enables analysts to create rich application definitions in terms of business processes, use cases, data rules, business rules, and user interface layouts.  The system empowers analysts to take control of business needs and create rich definitions to accelerate joint-analysis-and-design sessions, business reviews, and developer collaboration.  The assets created in Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst can be leveraged by the entire family of products to facilitate understanding and collaboration.

 
(Figure One:  Define end-to-end business
processes in Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst)

Perform High Fidelity Requirements Simulation
Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst includes industry-leading simulation functionality, to enable the creation of high-fidelity simulations of business need to gain validation and understanding within the organization.  The solution also empowers analysts to create simulations of applications that lack user-interfaces (such as SOA and web services) to model the complete (end-to-end) business process.  

 
(Figure Two:  Perform High-Fidelity simulations of application requirements – even supports SOA and Webservice based requirements!)

Enable Global Teams to work Together
Blueprint Requirements Center enables project teams to collaborate on requirements definition, whether they are down the hall or across the globe.  With distributed organizations now making up the majority of IT organizations, communicating business context can be critical to ensure efficient development and testing efforts.  All editions of Blueprint Requirements Center are integrated, to enable the sharing of information.  Also, the solution is compatible with most document sharing technologies now deployed in the Global 2000.

Requirements Definition:  Completely express your requirements …

• Express the business context the software product is to support
• Define and “connect” your software requirements
• Integrate external references (standards, guidelines, constraints, emails, images, etc)
• Rapidly mockup wireframes and GUI screens
• Express your data or pull from external sources
• Reuse requirements from other projects

Requirements Visualization:  Instantly simulate the future system …

• Unambiguously communicate with users, clients, development, test, support, management
• Change requirements in real-time and re-simulate
• Use inherent traceability to navigate requirements and identify impacts
• Clearly identify missing and out-of-scope requirements
• Have confidence in what you’re signing off

Requirements Validation:  Automatically generate your tests …

• Generate complete set of tests automatically from the requirements
• Guarantee requirements are “testable” as they are written
• Adjust scope and level to generate user acceptance tests, system-level tests, regression tests, or to generate tests only for certain parts of the system
• Apply filters to generate tests based on business-level criteria such as risk, priority, or business-criticality

Publish Blueprints:  “Action Plans” for IT

• Blueprint for development:  Automatically create Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and associated information for IBM-Rational Rose/RSA/Modeler, to Borland Together, or to XMI.
• Blueprint for management:  Automatically transition all requirements to requirements management solutions such as IBM-Rational RequisitePro and Telelogic DOORS
• Blueprint for testing:  Automatically transition all requirements and test content to test management solutions such as HP Quality Center / Test Director.
• Blueprint for everyone:  Publish all requirements and test information into rich, tailorable reports or navigable websites.