Business Requirements Management
Capture requirements successfully—every time

What differentiates Optimal Trace is the fact that it has requirements-gathering capabilities in the first place. Most tools focus on requirements management alone, but people are starting to realize that it doesn’t matter how well you manage your requirements if you aren’t dealing with the right requirements in the first place. —Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research as told to the San Diego Times in the August 2006 article  Compuware Incorporates SteelTrace Tool Into Fold

While balancing time, cost and quality continues to plague IT organizations, IT executives would agree that ineffective requirements are part of the root cause of project failure. IT needs to work collaboratively with the business to elicit effective requirements and manage them throughout the application life cycle. By establishing effective business requirements IT can deliver more relevant applications that meet the business need on time and within budget.

Optimal Trace is Compuware’s business requirements definition and management solution, built to enable IT and the business to collaborate more effectively and improve IT project delivery outcomes. According to CIO magazine, ineffective requirements are the cause of over 70 percent of IT project failures. Compuware Optimal Trace addresses this problem with “structured requirements." This approach captures software requirements from the perspective of the user, complete with visual storyboards and traceable relationships throughout the project lifecycle to business needs. Using structured requirements, IT organizations ensure that they are accurately and completely capturing the right requirements, communicating them effectively and dramatically improving their ability to deliver on the expectations of the business.

Optimal Trace comes in two editions: Enterprise - the ultimate collaboration tool for multiple users and teams; and Professional - the ideal tool for individual users to capture and manage requirements.  Structured Requirements with Optimal Trace bring significant benefits to all stakeholders throughout the product life cycle. Click the links below to see how you can benefit:

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