Blueprint Announces Alliance with Deloitte

Blueprint™ Signs with Deloitte to Provide a "Requirements Center of Excellence" Targeted at Fortune 1000 Customers

June 18, 2007 Toronto, ON: Blueprint, the global leader in Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ (RLA™), today formally announced an alliance with Deloitte. As a customer and partner of Blueprint for over three years, working together at customers such as a major Canadian financial institution, Deloitte has established a Requirements Center of Excellence based on Blueprint's Requirements Center™ solution.

Deloitte's "Requirements Center of Excellence" includes leading practices and packaged service offerings that help customers transform their approach to software requirements. Customers leveraging this approach can improve predictability and efficiency of their IT delivery, and as a result can dramatically improve overall business performance.

Deloitte's consulting services cover requirements elicitation, definition, simulation, validation, and management. These services focus on improving requirements quality and establishing validated requirements as the reference for all software development, maintenance, enhancement and upgrade life-cycles. Deloitte also provides business case preparation, product implementation, competency centre establishment, business analyst staff augmentation and project management.

In addition to a strong focus on requirements, Deloitte is able to link its already established Quality Assurance Center of Excellence to its Requirements Center of Excellence through Blueprint's industry leading Requirement Center test generation capabilities. These capabilities enable Fortune 1000 customers to generate 100% complete requirements and testing assets to provide comprehensive requirements coverage, or generate specific tests to validate change impact, risk and policy-driven verifications. This capability eliminates costly and error-prone test preparation activities, improves traceability, and allows for more intelligent impact and coverage testing.

"Blueprint is excited to partner with Deloitte to create a Requirements Center of Excellence," said David W. Nyland, Blueprint's President & CEO. "Given our success with joint deployments, a shared vision for rich requirements definition early in the lifecycle, and Deloitte's success in delivering value-added services in requirements and quality assurance, we are pleased to offer a complete solution for the needs of modern IT. I look forward to working closely with Deloitte to offer Fortune 1000 customers a more rapid, cost efficient mechanism to improve the predictability and efficiency of IT delivery and improve customer business performance."

"Blueprint helps enhance the Business/IT relationship and improves time to market in key areas of the application development lifecycle by integrating requirements definition, simulation and verification,." said Terry Stuart, Partner Deloitte, "The integration with HP Mercury Quality Center significantly increases benefits that clients can realize throughout the development lifecycle."

For more information on Blueprint partners, please visit http://www.blueprintsys.com.

About Blueprint™ Blueprint ignited the Requirements Definition revolution in 2002 with the introduction of its landmark Profesy™ solution for Visual Requirements Definition and Validation. Today, Blueprint offers the expanded Blueprint Requirements Center™ solution to support the emerging industry category entitled Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ (RLA). Blueprint's approach enables modern IT organizations to substantially eliminate rework, cost and schedule overrun, ensure application quality, and control business risk. Blueprint is a global solution provider with office locations in North America and Europe. For more information on Blueprint or Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™, visit www.blueprintsys.com.

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