Compuware Corporation has released Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0, the latest version of Compuware Optimal’s business requirements management solution. This new version provides an easy entry into adopting a business requirements management solution and enables organizations to grow into a sophisticated use of “structured requirements.” It also further strengthens Compuware Optimal’s application delivery management solution by offering increased capability to propagate business intent through the life cycle. These capabilities create a quicker and higher return on investment.

Version 5.0 lowers the barrier of entry for organizations wishing to achieve requirements process improvement. In environments where requirements have been captured in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, Optimal Trace 5.0 now provides an intuitive document and text import capability that allows virtually any document or file structure to be absorbed into the Optimal Trace repository.

Leveraging the business-driven philosophy of Optimal Trace, this yields fast deployment and rapid adoption of a business-driven approach.

Optimal Trace 5.0 also introduces complete structural flexibility for tailoring project and package/group structure to the needs of any project. This is facilitated by extending the capability to create custom field definitions on any level, including project, package and requirement levels. Combining this with a new and simplified list style requirement concept creates a customizable requirements capture and management solution further augmenting Optimal Trace’s business-driven approach.

The capabilities of Compuware Optimal Trace 5.0 enhance the propagation of requirements to all aspects of the application life cycle. This business-driven approach is the cornerstone of Compuware Optimal’s application delivery management solution. In addition, this new version dramatically improves the capability to propagate requirements to Compuware’s Project and Portfolio Management solutions, ensuring complete alignment with the business.