Optimal Trace - Enterprise - V5.0 - Summary

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Optimal Trace - Enterprise - V5.0 by Compuware

Capture, view and manage structured requirements. Optimal Trace is a comprehensive collaborative environment for capturing, viewing and managing structured requirements. It is designed for teams of people who need to generate and track requirements from the inception of an IT project right through to its conclusion. Optimal Trace provides a rich graphical interface for building scenarios and linking them together. It includes a document generation and round-tripping system, an interface with industry-standard testing and UML modeling tools, full audit tracking of changes and a sophisticated project merging system with fine-granularity locking for collaborative working. It also offers full baseline support, advanced querying and filtering, full traceability and automatic suspect links, email notifications and sophisticated reports.

Define : Optimal Trace helps you capture all business and system requirements.

Optimal Trace Enterprise brings structure to project definition, enabling clear and comprehensive requirements capture with a logical and intuitive flow that brings consistency, completeness and understanding for all stakeholders. Quick and simple to deploy, Optimal Trace Enterprise is a collaboration tool, handling large numbers of users at multiple locations. Requirements can be input on the fly (on-line or off-line) while at the customer’s site. Projects are communicated in the format that best suits each user, maximizing buy-in.

Document : Optimal Trace helps you communicate easily with all stakeholders.

Optimal Trace Enterprise’s automatic document generation allows users communicate in the output format most comfortable for them. Their edits can be re-incorporated back into the main project with structured version control. A range of reports and documents come pre-canned and can be used straight away or customized to reflect the activity, role or requirement. With Optimal Trace Enterprise, managing project edits is a lot easier – and a lot more reliable.

Project documentation in any report/format can be easily generated using project data sorted and prioritized based on any metric provided (cost, urgency, etc.). All reports and documents will also include associated artifacts (e.g. sample screens shots) and custom properties, ensuring completeness and accuracy. Optimal Trace Enterprise’s Complexity and Completeness Report automatically gives you a summary view of the project, its intricacy and the completeness of its scope, perfect for high-level project management. Project data can also be exported intact for other uses such as MS Project, CSV files, XML and other formats. Enabling all stakeholders to easily review and edit the project, on-line or off-line, is the most powerful way to secure accuracy and buy-in throughout the project life-cycle.

Collaborate : Share, work concurrently, do live review with Optimal Trace.

Optimal Trace is a collaboration tool. Users work on the most current version of the project every time. All interchanges are recorded and accurately tracked. Optimal Trace works at a finely granular level, ensuring that only the requirement being worked on by an individual is locked (but still visible) to others.

Teams and individuals can work off-line (e.g. at a customer site where repository access may not be available) with full system functionality and can merge with the main project in a fully controlled way when back on-line. Off-line users can create new projects, generate documents and reports and work as normal. During merge-back, conflicts are detected automatically and flagged for action – a facility that can also be used for project merging.

All projects are held in a central relational database available for live work, uploading for remote usage or for new project generation. The Repository also manages references to associated files and artifacts (e.g. screenshots, spreadsheets, etc.). It is a live “one-stop-shop” for all project elements, increasing re-use and cutting down on costs and time.

Optimal Trace offers Baseline functionality. Whether for project divergence, establishing sign off within a project or even for enabling the use of an existing project to kick off a new one, Baselines save time by making it easy to get project sign-off and by re-using existing project structures. Optimal Trace’s pre-canned and customizable Project Templates ensure application of both corporate and compliance standards.

Validate : Optimal Trace gives automatic test case generation for ALL requirements.

Test plan creation costs are dramatically reduced by automatically generating Test Cases directly from the Requirements – this gives 100% coverage of all requirements, whether visual or operational etc. while automatically creating appropriate Trace Links from business to test. Full test documentation is also automatically generated. Optimal Trace integrates with all standard testing tools. Optimal Trace Enterprise also translates ALL requirements into design artifacts such as UML, removing any ambiguity about what the business user actually needs and wants.

Manage: Achieve maximum traceability and control with Optimal Trace.

With Optimal Trace Enterprise, all stakeholders can manage and track project status in real-time. The automatically generated 'Traceability Tree' traces all dependent elements within and across projects. This Tree can be drilled into, and elements automatically loaded (even if relating to a cross-project link). Dependency checking, traceability navigation and gap analysis are made very easy.

Suspect Links automatically highlight when changes may have a knock-on effect. With Change Analysis and Notification, users can easily track their requirements directly in the project, customize their view to show only those elements of direct concern and be alerted when changes are made to these elements. Optimal Trace’s Change History and Audit Trail ensures that all project amendments and changes are tracked and logged, maintaining a full history of changes and their rationale.

Custom Properties and Fields can be set up within each requirement, package and project, dramatically increasing the flexibility of the project to hold data specific to different roles. Full logical Complex Querying is completely enabled, so the project can be easily sorted (e.g. based on high-risk, priority, completed, etc). Queries are easy to set up and save and can be exported for further work. Optimal Trace gives a better, more flexible view of project data and as a result, prioritization, reporting and tracking are made much easier. Risk Analysis and Corporate Compliance are supported through Optimal Trace’s ability to show how business needs and priorities are being met by the project and how the chain of events is properly managed and tracked.

PartNumbers: PC-517217-129561 517217-129561 PC-517217-129562 517217-129562

PurchaseOptions: Optimal Trace V5.0 Enterprise - per Named User 1 Named User License with Subscription Plus (Annual support + updates) , Optimal Trace V5.0 Enterprise - per Concurrent User 1 Concurrent User License with Subscription Plus (Annual support + updates)

Resources: Read the Optimal Trace Manual - Requires Acrobat Reader, View the OptimalTrace WebEx demos - requires WebEx Player

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.x

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

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