The new release of the Evaluation Specification Editor – Content Provider Edition lets you comfortably generate spreadsheets in Microsoft's Excel file format.

Using the editor's rich functionality, you can create Evaluation Specifications quickly and easily. You can import ready-to-use requirements from the requirements repository via the integrated Requirements Package Browser. Import via drag & drop could not be more convenient or efficient.

The requirements repository currently contains more than 1,500 functional requirements. No license is required for business partner-related Requirements and for non-functional requirements.

With this new release, the new spreadsheet generation feature lets you produce an output file which you can open with spreadsheet tools that can deal with Microsoft's Excel file format. Besides Microsoft Office, this would be OpenOffice and Google Spreadsheets, for example.

The new feature is of particular interest when you wish to perform an internal software evaluation. You can specify how many software products you wish to include in the spreadsheet. A set of columns will be generated for each software product.

The generated spreadsheet truly reflects the Evaluation Specification node hierarchy. It contains all the formulas that are needed to compute aggregate values at multiple aggregation levels.

Once the spreadsheet file has been generated, you can start immediately with product comparison and you can easily and clearly identify each product's strong and weak areas.