Blueprint Announces New Professional Service Offerings

Toronto, Canada - October 25, 2010: Blueprint Software Systems Inc. ("Blueprint"), the leader in requirements definition and management software, today announced a series of new professional service offerings designed to drive continued success and adoption within its customer base.

Capitalizing on its leadership position in the industry and its strategic value within its install base, Blueprint has developed these service offerings in response to the overwhelming feedback from its customer base. "As we continue to drive success with our enterprise customers they are looking to Blueprint to provide additional services beyond basic training and mentoring" says Blueprint CEO David Nyland. "As our customers get more sophisticated in their requirements process and understand Blueprint's ability to change the economics of their software delivery operations, the demand for these services has grown. Along with our key strategic consulting partners we will continue to develop and deliver these industry leading services."

Beyond traditional Requirements Center product training and mentoring, Blueprint has crafted a series of strategic training, consulting and requirements modeling services necessary to help customer's drive project success. These services are based on the experience that Blueprint has gained at several of its largest and most strategic customers.

Built on the new Blueprint Services Strategy, the offerings are designed to be non-intrusive, to meet customers where they are, and to extend the value of Blueprint into the project teams in the most efficient and effective manner. The Blueprint Discovery Service allows Blueprint to understand the customer's high-level business goals, project goals, current Requirements Definition process, and SDLC tooling environment. The output of the Discovery Service is a customized Implementation Plan which includes recommendations for training and consulting services that will drive success.

These new Services include:

• Technical Engagement Management Services - Blueprint TEM Services range from project initiation through successful rollout, and include the coordination and delivery of services such as installation, configuration, data conversion, training and technical mentoring, best practices and support of Blueprint's products.
• Requirements Strategy Services - The Blueprint Requirements Strategy Service is designed to allow Blueprint to engage with the customer at a business level to understand the customer's organization, their overall Software Development Lifecycle, and their current requirements process. The Blueprint consultant(s) will partner with the customer to create an overall customer success strategy based on Blueprint practical experience and proven best practices.
• Requirements Lifecycle Service - The Blueprint Requirements Lifecycle Service (RLS) is designed to provide a "jump start" and a pattern for the successful utilization of Requirements Center within the customer's organization. Working alongside the customer on an active project, the Blueprint consultant will actively assist in the Authoring, Validation and Communication (a complete lifecycle) of a requirements definition project. The goal of the Requirements Lifecycle Service is to accelerate the customer's internal skills development and shorten the learning curve for Blueprint adoption.
• As Is Modeling Service - The Blueprint "As Is" Modeling Service is designed to help accelerate application upgrades and the adoption of Requirements Center through the successful modeling of the current system (or application to be upgraded) within Requirements Center. This is a value-added modeling and analysis process of your existing application and related requirements.

These services are available today and can be delivered by Blueprint as well as its most strategic consulting partners. Contact your Blueprint sales director or access our web site at www.blueprintsys.com/services.php for more information.

About Blueprint
Blueprint's mission and vision is to positively change the economics of software development by substantially improving the quality, consistency and stakeholder review and approval of requirements. Blueprint's award winning solution, Requirements Center™ is the industry's first enterprise-class requirements definition and management software tool purpose built for globally distributed requirements authors and stakeholders. With proven support for the industry's most complete set of traceable requirements types (including screen/UI, use cases, data, business rules, requirements lists, glossaries and rich text, and business process), all requirements can be simulated together visually and printed for improved review and team alignment. Once a baseline is approved and generated, requirements can be transformed into leading Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) platforms such as HP's Quality Center. The result for Blueprint's customers is faster software project delivery, substantially less cost and rework, reduced project backlog, and a dramatically improved business/IT relationship. Blueprint is a global provider, headquartered in Canada, and with presence, partners and customers in North America and Europe. For more information on Blueprint, visit http://www.blueprintsys.com.

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