Press ReleaseMarch 13, 2009 - Cook Enterprise Corporation's Business Partner, Blueprint™, Receives Prestigious Jolt AwardHIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado (March 13, 2009) – Cook Enterprise Corporation, a thought leader for discovering and documenting business processes and software application requirements, announced today that Blueprint™, the leading provider of requirements definition solutions for the business analyst, has been honored with a Jolt Product Excellence Award in the highly competitive Design Tools and Modeling category. TechWeb announced the winners of the 19th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards during the Award Ceremony at the Software Development West 2009 Conference and Expo. The prestigious Jolt Awards recognize those products that have jolted the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Winners are selected from among hundreds of qualified nominations by an esteemed panel of judges consisting of industry insiders, columnists, and technology leaders. "This year was a remarkably exciting year for the Jolt Awards because there were so many strong contenders in every category," said Amber Ankerholz, SD West conference manager. "Blueprint’s selection in the Design and Modeling category puts it among an elite group of software development innovators." The Jolt judges not only examine the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity, innovation, quality, ROI, risk and flexibility, but also seek to honor products that are ahead of the curve. Jolt-winning products are universally useful; are simple, yet rich in functionality; redefine their product space; and/or solve a nagging problem that has consistently eluded other products and books. "The Jolt Awards are the Oscars of the software industry, and we are proud and humbled by this recognition of the excellence of our product," said David Nyland, CEO of Blueprint. "By solving a problem that we and numerous other software development organizations have faced – enabling the business analyst to properly define and communicate requirements to meet the business need across a distributed environment – we have built a product that enables the business analyst to succeed." This follows Blueprint™ being Gartner's 2008 Cool Vendor in Application Development in the business analyst space. About Cook Enterprise Corporation ( www.building-requirements-consensus.com ) Cook Enterprise Corporation helps you add clarity and build consensus with business processes, software requirements, software testing and outsourcing through its Building Requirements Consensus™ methodology and approach. where to strengthen their competitive position by simulating business processes and software requirements, clarifying them and building consensus, before investing to implement them. About Blueprint™ ( www.blueprintsys.com - opens in new page ) Named a "Cool Vendor" in Application Development by leading analyst firm Gartner, and the winner of the Jolt Excellence Award in Design and Modeling, Blueprint aligns business and IT teams by delivering the industry’s leading requirements suite designed specifically for the business analyst. Blueprint solutions empower analyst teams to eliminate requirements misunderstanding by capturing, validating, and delivering precise business requirements to local or distributed IT application project teams. Blueprint’s product line functions as a collaborative system for the requirements lifecycle, including requirements elicitation, elaboration, validation, and acceptance. Blueprint is a global provider, with presence in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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