Blueprint Requirements Center 2010 Wins Jolt Productivity Award

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blueprint™, the world leader in requirements management solutions for enterprise application development, has been honored with one of the Jolt Productivity Awards in the highly competitive Design, Architecture, and Planning Tools category. Blueprint was previously awarded the Jolt Product Excellence Award in 2009.

Blueprint provides the most comprehensive requirements management tool to define and manage software requirements that drastically improve software quality and accelerate project delivery. Blueprint users define requirements using integrated text and graphical formats, validate using generated documents and live simulation, and communicate base-lined requirements via integrations with developer and tester tools.

“We are very honored to be recognized for the second time with a Jolt Productivity Award,” said David Nyland, CEO of Blueprint. “Being a leader in this new generation of requirements tools that are lighter-weight, more collaborative in nature, and able to fit the changing needs of today’s globally distributed organizations is truly exciting.”

Since 1990, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Award have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Winners are selected from qualified nominations by an esteemed panel of judges consisting of Dr. Dobb’s editors, academics, consultants, and well-known authors.

“One of the most important elements of any project is defining requirements,” said Jon Kurz, a Jolt Award judge. “With no shortage of features, a simple interface, and a great attention to detail, Requirements Center has earned its place as a musthave tool, which will bring greater productivity and quality to projects of all sizes.”

Jolt Award judges not only examine the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity, innovation, quality, ROI, risk and flexibility, but also seek to honor products that are ahead of the curve. Jolt-winning products are universally useful; are simple, yet rich in functionality; redefine their product space; and/or solve a nagging problem that has consistently eluded other products and books.

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About Blueprint
Blueprint is the world leader in requirements management solutions for enterprise application development. Its patented requirements definition and management software improves the expressiveness and quality of requirements, dramatically reducing the miscommunication that leads to rework, delays, and budget overruns. With Blueprint’s solution, business analysts clearly express requirements using a range of visual formats that are integrated to enforce consistency and remove conflicts, stakeholders understand and efficiently validate the requirements, and the team effectively leverages them throughout the entire lifecycle. Blueprint dramatically improves the software development lifecycle, accelerating delivery times and reducing costs for hundreds of major corporations. Headquartered in Toronto, Blueprint has sales offices throughout North America. Visit www.blueprintsys.com.

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Contacts
Blueprint Software Systems
Rob Bartlett, 1-647-288-3384
rob.bartlett@blueprintsys.com