6th Sense Analytics Delivers Integration with Key Microsoft Applications
Automated Solution for Software Development Metrics Captures Data from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office Applications
Morrisville, NC -- June 19, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today announced integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and the Microsoft Office system. 6th Sense Analytics users can immediately download and install sensors to capture data from these tools to achieve broader visibility into distributed software development projects. Support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Office applications expands upon the .NET developer tool support currently provided by 6th Sense Analytics, which includes Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Visual Basic.
"As software projects grow in scale and distribution, understanding the progress and velocity of work can be a challenge," said Ian Knox, group product manager for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is pleased that 6th Sense Analytics is investing in support for Microsoft development environments and delivering a solution that complements our application development tools with its automated metrics."
Support for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is a collaboration server that enables software development teams to come together to effectively manage software development tasks and work items. It includes a full set of tools for managing software development and a rich data model based on a data warehouse. Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server provides access to all of the work items at the heart of a software development projects. The data 6th Sense Analytics automatically collects can be easily correlated with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server work items to provide an accurate and up-to-date view into the status and progress of project work. 6th Sense Analytics also allows these tasks to be preserved as a historical proxy for accurately estimating the scope of future tasks. Additionally, the activity-based data that 6th Sense Analytics collects can be combined with the static analysis data provided by Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. The result is a complete aggregation of metrics for understanding the progress and risk in a software development project.
Support for the Microsoft Office System
6th Sense Analytics has also delivered a sensor for the Microsoft Office system, which is one of the leading desktop productivity suites and key for many aspects of analysis, design, requirements definition and documentation phases of the software development process. This allows data to be captured about the effort expended in leading productivity applications such as Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, Office Visio, and Office PowerPoint, providing broader visibility into key non-coding phases of distributed software development projects.
"We're enthusiastic supporters of the innovations Microsoft is delivering in the area of application development," said Todd Olson, co-founder and CTO of 6th Sense Analytics. "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is a broad and flexible software development platform with a data warehouse that powers analytics. We believe that the combination of Team Foundation Server and 6th Sense Analytics provides all the tools and visibility organizations need to effectively manage distributed software development."
The 6th Sense Analytics Solution
6th Sense Analytics is a powerful and unique software-as-a-service solution for achieving accurate and consistent visibility across distributed software development projects. 6th Sense automatically and unobtrusively collects activity-based data from developer tools and delivers on-demand analytics to individuals and teams. This delivers insight into the time spent on specific activities, and provides a basis for understanding team effort, productivity and overall project velocity�ensuring software development projects are on time, on budget and on target with business goals. All of this allows software development teams to improve their ability to deliver successful project outcomes, critical to the overall success of a globally distributed software development effort.
About 6th Sense Analytics, Inc.
6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, gives developers and managers deep insight into their software development process by delivering accurate metrics without interrupting the software development lifecycle or changing the tools used. A 2007 winner of the coveted Jolt Productivity Award, 6th Sense Analytics uses an open and independent architecture that provides visibility into the status of distributed software projects. Founded in 2004 by a team of experienced software development executives, 6th Sense Analytics is a privately held company based near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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