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Rally Software Announces New Integrations to Help Large Enterprises Adopt Agile Software Development |
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
Rally executes on its vision to seamlessly scale Agile practices for large, heterogeneous development teams
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 9 -- Rally Software Development Corp.(R), a
leading provider of Agile software life cycle management solutions,
today announced several new integrations that enable organizations to
leverage their existing development infrastructures. In addition, new
enterprise features help organizations seamlessly adopt and scale Agile
practices.
Rally now offers numerous integration "connectors" with its Agile life
cycle management solutions to help multi-team development organizations
protect existing investments, reduce implementation costs and
seamlessly unify technical and role-based silos into a collaborative
Agile dashboard. In addition, Rally's new enterprise features deliver
multi-team project planning, tracking and resource management for more
in-depth project visibility.
"As Rally evolves with more integrations, we serve as a central hub of
information for teams as they mash-up and connect their favorite tools
to better communicate and collaborate across the enterprise," said Ryan
Martens, Rally's founder and CTO. "The latest release of Rally delivers
on our vision of offering an 'integration hub' where large enterprises
can quickly and easily blend legacy tools with their incremental
adoption of Agile practices."
New integration connectors with role-based tools deliver the visibility
and collaboration needed to scale Agile practices, and include:
-- Connectors with development tools:
-- Subversion (source code control)
-- Eclipse (IDE)
-- Visual Studio (IDE)
-- Connectors with quality assurance and testing tools:
-- Bugzilla and Jira (defect tracking)
-- Mercury Quality Center (testing)
-- Fitnesse and JUnit (acceptance and unit testing)
-- Seapine TestTrack Pro (defect tracking)
-- Ant, CruiseControl and Maven (continuous integration and build)
-- Connectors with collaboration and project/portfolio management tools:
-- Microsoft SharePoint (enterprise collaboration)
-- Microsoft Project (project/portfolio management)
-- Skype, Yahoo IM, Google Talk, Jabber and AOL IM (enterprise
collaboration)
"With the accelerated pace of Agile development, keeping an eye on
system quality is critical. Rally's approach to integrations has
enabled us to synchronize teams and accelerate product releases while
preserving existing workflow and investments in tools like Mercury
Quality Center," noted Matt Brown, director of development and quality
assurance for Thomson Healthcare.
In addition, new Rally enterprise features announced today provide
enhanced visibility across multiple teams and projects, and include:
-- Resource management for balancing workloads across multiple teams and
projects
-- Project hierarchies and dependencies for multi-level projects and
dependent work products
-- Configurable dashboard widgets to display work status from the
individual through to the project and program level
Pricing and Availability
Rally's 2007.5 integrations and enterprise features are currently
available or under development in Rally's family of Agile tools,
starting at $19 per user per month.
About Rally
>From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps
>companies
successfully adopt and scale Agile software development practices.
Rally's family of Agile life cycle management products, which received
the software industry's top honor of back-to-back Jolt Product
Excellence awards in 2006 and 2007, map an incremental road to Agile
adoption. In addition, the company's world-renowned coaching services
help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts. Over 50 percent of
the world's leading software-driven companies currently use Rally, and
Rally's tools have supported its customers in more than 6,500 Agile
releases. For more information, visit http://www.rallydev.com/.
Rally Software Development is a registered trademark of Rally Software
Development Corp. Third-party trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Rally media contact:
Catapult PR-IR
Christie Denniston
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Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13
Cell: 303-581-7760
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