"It takes the burden of doing the translating out of the hands of the user," Felsing said.

Additionally, Borland will offer Caliber Analyst, providing a superset of requirements definition and management and featuring both Caliber DefineIT and Caliber RM.

Caliber DefineIT costs $2,000 per named user. Caliber Analyst costs US$3,000 per user. Both Analyst and DefineIT are available on May 5.

DefineIT and Caliber Analyst are being introduced as part of Borland's overarching Requirements Definition and Management solution, which features these products as well as process improvement and training services. Requirements Definition and Management is part of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization strategy for ALM.