Compuware Corp. has upgraded its Optimal Trace tool used to help organizations address the problem of propagating business requirements into the app dev process.

The Detroit-based company's new Optimal Trace 5.0 now includes wizards to import and classify documents and text from a variety of document types, notably Word, Excel and text files. The new release also creates a structure on the spot, using folders such as Requirements, Performance, Business Rules, Customer Maintenance and Business-Domain Entities.

Optimal Trace 5.0 falls in the mid-range of a cadre of tools that include Borland Caliber, IBM Rational RequisitePro, Kovair Global LifeCycle/Requirements Management and Telelogic DOORS. 

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Compuware Revs Business Requirements Tool

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