Deep Traceability across Project, Requirements, Test Cases, Issues, Check-Ins, and Support Cases, achieved via connectors that provide integration and interoperability between Confluence, JIRA, Subversion, Perforce, CruiseControl, Hudson, and Salesforce.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA –  September 14, 2010  – zAgile, Inc., the leading provider of software engineering dashboards, today announced the general availability of zAgile Teamwork v2.

Teamwork v2 allows software engineering managers to take control of their projects and deliver predictably and efficiently.  Teamwork integrates information between their existing tools so that they may:

  • Instantly visualize every engineering phase with dashboards and reports
  • “Drill down” into details of every software delivery topic
  • Easily search and find precise details for any aspect of software delivery
  • Contextually and bi-directionally integrate content across every engineering phase with Connectors to Atlassian’s Confluence and JIRA, Subversion, Perforce, CruiseControl, Hudson, and Salesforce.com

Until now, software engineering managers have suffered from a lack of visibility across the software delivery process. Whereas marketing and sales managers enjoy dashboards for a view of the “leads-to-sale funnel” in a customer relationship management (CRM) dashboard, no equivalent 360 degree view has existed for engineering managers.

Most software engineering teams choose best-of-breed tools that excel at specific roles within the development lifecycle.  However, these tools offer little or no integration between each other, thus leaving the teams and their efforts silo’ed.  Even organizations that invest in single-vendor solutions that cover all aspects of Application Lifecycle Management find similar lack of integration across tools.  Hence, traceability and comprehensive reporting on engineering projects remains a challenge to be solved by individual managers.

Teamwork’s repository, based upon a rich comprehensive software engineering metamodel describes the artifacts, relationships, and processes for software engineering, enabling rich integration with any tool or application. Teamwork v2 includes Connectors for a variety of the leading software engineering tools and enterprise applications. Connectors may be added upon request to zAgile for any other tool or application, and zAgile’s open source infrastructure also allows extension and creation of new custom Connectors by the customer.

Product Technical Specifications

  • Dashboards deliver high-level view of every software engineering phase: Requirements, Test Cases, Issues, Tasks, Check-Ins, Customer Support Cases
  • Smart Templates enable definition of Requirements and Test Cases in Confluence enterprise wiki.
  • Smart Search enables retrieval of concept instances and their attributes.  Navigation in the result set allows for contextual traversal across the information network
  • Connectors to Confluence, JIRA, Subversion, Perforce, CruiseControl, Hudson, and Salesforce.com
  • XML/RPC-based API for access to repository allowing content to be accessible from any application or software engineering tool
  • A standalone zAgile repository server provides consistent exchange of integrated data and information across all tools.

Availability and Pricing
zAgile Teamwork is available for evaluation at www.zagile.com.  A hosted “sandbox” allows users to test-drive Teamwork via the web without installing products.  Pricing starts, for 25 users, at $188 per month in the cloud and $1,500 per year on-premises.

About zAgile, Inc.
Founded in 2006, zAgile, the leader in software engineering dashboards, has corporate headquarters in San Francisco. zAgile products enable the deep integration of information across teams, tools, and applications, with a common semantic infrastructure, enabling comprehensive organization-wide collaboration. zAgile significantly reduces costs of collaboration on projects, instills consistency of methodologies across all projects, and instills confidence and predictability of delivery schedules. Partners include Atlassian, HP, WanDisco, and Red Hat.