Blueprint Announces Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 Feature Pack 1

Blueprint Delivers Improvements to its Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration Platform

February 27, 2008, Toronto: Blueprint™, the global leader in Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ (RLA™), today announced the availability of Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 Feature Pack 1, adding even more capability to the industry’s first platform to deliver enterprise-wide requirements definition and visualization.

Business requirements are the critical link between the business and IT organizations. With the pressure of distributed teams and strategic sourcing on a global scale, ensuring clear requirements definition and understanding is paramount to deliver high-quality applications.

As part of this release, Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 Feature Pack 1 provides improvements to its industry-leading functionality, including:

• Blueprint Reader 2008 — Requirements Center now has the ability to automatically prepare requirements along with simulation settings into a "requirements package" for reviewers using the freely-available Blueprint Reader 2008.
• GUI Editor Enhancements — Numerous enhancements to the Requirements Center GUI Screen Editor including overall appearance, new widgets, rapid property entry, multiple widget selection & manipulation, and more.
• Sparx Enterprise Architect Support — With the launch of Requirements Center 2008 FP1 Blueprint is announcing support for Sparx Enterprise Architect. Users of Requirements Center are able to populate Enterprise Architect with a complete set of high-quality, verified & validated Use Cases along with automatically-generated UML Activity Diagrams for those Use Cases. This provides designers & developers with a clear and precise instruction on what needs to be built using Enterprise Architect.

Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 is a role based solution with editions for the Business Analyst, the Application Developer, and the Quality Assurance Tester. Its unique capabilities build quality into requirements as they are defined through a highly collaborative approach to elicitation, elaboration, validation, and acceptance of the requirements. It then leverages those high-quality requirements through strategic touchpoints with the rest of the application lifecycle.

Existing Blueprint customers leveraging previous versions of Blueprint Requirements Center qualify for an upgrade to Blueprint Requirements Center 2008 Feature Pack 1 as part of their maintenance agreement. Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst, Developer, and Tester Editions are all available immediately.

For more information on Blueprint Requirements Center, please visit www.blueprintsys.com.

About Blueprint
Blueprint ignited the Requirements Definition revolution in 2004 with the introduction of its landmark Profesy™ solution for Visual Requirements Definition and Validation. Today, Blueprint offers an expanded 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 presence in North America and Europe. For more information on Blueprint or Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™, visit www.blueprintsys.com.

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.