Blueprint Launches Blueprint Requirements Center™ 2007

Blueprint™ Unveils First Role Based Solution for Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™.

May 21, 2007 Toronto, ON: Blueprint, the global leader in Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ (RLA™) , today announced the launch of Blueprint Requirements Center 2007™, the industry's first role based solution for RLA™.

Software development has dramatically increased in size, scope, geographic reach and complexity over the past decade. Complex, existing multi-platform legacy systems, combined with new technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture, AJAX, and other Web 2.0 technologies, dominate the 21st century IT agenda. With software becoming an ever more critical component of business operations, enterprises must leverage the same disciplined approach to software development that they have historically applied to other engineering disciplines. The ability to provide rich requirements definition, simulation, and validation can ensure software quality, control application risk, and substantially eliminate rework.

Blueprint Requirements Center 2007 is the first product in the market to deliver key Requirements Lifecycle Accelerators, including requirements definition, application simulation, and requirements validation. In addition, the solution supports collaboration for distributed or global project teams. In conjunction with these accelerators, the overall solution has been dramatically enhanced for SOA and web services, providing support for complete business process definition and simulations for applications that lack graphical interfaces.

"The nature of IT software projects has changed, and the need for upfront requirements definition and validation is paramount," said Matthew J. Morgan, Blueprint Chief Marketing Officer. "To date, industry vendors have delivered one-size-fits-all requirements solutions biased toward to anticipating high-levels of rework and change. With the launch of Blueprint Requirements Center 2007, Blueprint has delivered a differentiated requirements system that enables customers to obtain a highly visual, collaborative understanding upfront, avoiding rework, and focusing on creating a common understanding through the development and maintenance life-cycle. "

Blueprint Requirements Center 2007 is available in three integrated versions, and includes the following industry leading functionality:

• Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst™: Empowering the business analyst to better communicate with the customer, development, and test teams, Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst enables analysts to clearly define application functionality, simulate end-to-end processes, and package business context into a an easy to use reference platform.
• Blueprint Requirements Center Developer™: Built for the developer and system architect, Blueprint Requirements Center Developer enables a developer to easily reference business requirement models, execute rich simulations, and export swim-lane reports and accurate development artifacts into best of breed development tools.
• Blueprint Requirements Center Tester™: Linking requirements definition and quality assurance, Blueprint Requirements Center Tester auto-generates 100% complete functional test cases to provide 100% requirements coverage.

"Blueprint Requirements Center is a game changing product," said Bill Murray, Manager Business Analysis & Quality Assurance. "EDULINX's development process is heavily based on ensuring business requests are met. Blueprint truly integrates our IT and business teams with a unique lifecycle approach to requirements definition. We were one of Blueprint's first customers in 2005 and since then have been providing Blueprint with guidance on product strategy and features, and are impressed with Blueprint's responsiveness and high level of current product maturity. With Blueprint Requirements Center 2007, we now have a strong track record of proven return-on-investment in eliminating rework, improving development, and accelerating testing efforts."

In addition, Blueprint also officially announced the Blueprint Reader™. The Blueprint Reader is a no-cost extension to Blueprint Requirements Center 2007 that enables organizations to more effectively communicate by sharing simulations, requirements models, and application blueprints.

Existing Blueprint customers leveraging the Profesy™ product line qualify for an upgrade to Blueprint Requirements Center 2007 as part of their maintenance agreement. Blueprint Requirements Center Analyst, Developer, and Tester are all available immediately. Blueprint Reader™ will be shipping in July, 2007.

Blueprint will be hosting a weekly webinar series on Blueprint Requirements Center 2007. Registration for the webinar can be completed online at 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 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 office locations in North America and Europe. For more information on Blueprint or Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™, visit http://www.blueprintsys.com.