Rally Software & GlobalLogic Partner to Help Large, Distributed Organizations Adopt Agile Practices

"Rally and GlobalLogic have many goals in common, including our desire to help large organizations adopt Agile practices and enhance their collaboration through an on-demand platform," said Ryan Martens, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rally. "This partnership will help both companies' customers more easily connect teams across geographies using Rally as a central hub of information."

The Rally and GlobalLogic partnership spans several areas:

Rally's Agile lifecycle management solutions are the latest addition to the GlobalLogic Velocity™ offering, a distributed Agile method and platform that enables rapid product lifecycle management across the globe and won the 2007 InfoWorld Top 100 award for distributed Agile development. Rally is now the principal platform within the Velocity offering for tracking and reporting at the project and program level to seamlessly connect internal and outsourced development teams.

GlobalLogic is now one of Rally's global product developer partners for the continued development of its robust integrations with popular open source and commercial tools. Through numerous integration connectors, Rally serves as a central hub of product lifecycle information that helps multi-team development organizations speed development and delivery of software to market.
 
Rally's customers now benefit from an additional option for scaling their Agile product development initiatives through GlobalLogic's global product development capabilities. GlobalLogic delivers full lifecycle product development from centers in India, Ukraine, China and the U.S. that house nearly 3,000 software research and development engineers.

"Rally is an important alliance partner because their Agile lifecycle management solutions further enhance the value that the GlobalLogic Velocity platform delivers to our technology clients," said John Hitchcock, worldwide vice president of GlobalLogic. "We are very excited to be working with the Rally team."

Rally and GlobalLogic will host a free webinar titled, "From Agile Development to Agile Delivery" on Wednesday, March 26, at 11:00 a.m. Mountain time. During this webinar, participants will learn best practices and incremental adoption strategies that enable teams to take advantage of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based delivery models that rely on Agile development practices. This webinar is ideal for product, project and program managers, IT managers and software delivery team leads. To register, visit http://www.rallydev.com/register_for_glweb2.jsp.

About Rally
From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally is a trusted advisor for companies looking to bring agility and collaboration to their application development life cycles. Rally's family of life cycle management products have been widely recognized by industry leaders -- and received the software industry's top honor of back-to-back Jolt Product Excellence awards in 2006 and 2007. In addition, the company's world-renowned coaching services help teams, programs and enterprises adopt agile practices successfully. 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 8,000 Agile releases. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

About GlobalLogic
The leader in global product development, GlobalLogic, Inc. partners with emerging and established technology companies to help them bring great software products to market in less time and at less cost. GlobalLogic has developed a unique joint-venture model of partnering with technology companies to create a dedicated global delivery center. By leveraging GlobalLogic's global facilities and world-class engineers, companies can increase quality while dramatically reducing timelines and operating costs, often by more than 60 percent. Through the GlobalLogic Velocity™ method and platform, the company is also a pioneer in distributed Agile methods and open source platforms that shorten product development cycles while ensuring that the right features are implemented on time, every time.

GlobalLogic has ongoing partnerships with more than 140 technology companies in markets that include consumer internet, SaaS, VoIP, wireless, telecom, security, payment, business intelligence, embedded and finance. It has completed more than 300 major products in the last 12 months with a better than 95 percent on-time delivery record. Over the last six years, GlobalLogic has helped its clients release over 800 software products. Its clients include innovative technology companies such as Autodesk, Avolent, BroadSoft, Electronic Arts, GridApp Systems, MobiTV, Motorola, NexTone, Vertica, Qualcomm and Sony Digital. GlobalLogic, an Inc. 500 company, has been ranked as one of the 10 best places to work in India by IDC and was recognized by InfoWorld for Agile software product development excellence. GlobalLogic is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia and has European headquarters in London, U.K. The company has global delivery centers throughout the U.S., India, Ukraine and China and employs nearly 3,000 professionals worldwide.

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