6th Sense Analytics Offers Solution To Open Source Projects and Academic Groups Free of Charge
MORRISVILLE, NC -- December 12, 2006 -- 6th Sense Analytics, a pioneer in improving software development metrics, today announced it will make its software solution available to academic groups and open source projects free of charge. By assisting these groups through automated collection of activity-based data, 6th Sense will actively support the academic study of software engineering and help open source projects to demonstrate progress, value and differentiation.
"Academia and open source are two communities which will benefit immensely from the metrics provided by the 6th Sense solution," said Greg Burnell, co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics. "We are able to substantiate the level of active contributions made to open source projects, which is the key measure of their value and success. Our data will also help academic groups by providing a means for professors and students to better understand development activity on an individual and comparative basis. Making our solution free to these groups is a simple decision."
For open source projects, 6th Sense provides the means to clearly communicate the value of an initiative by offering an empirical measure of the investments being made. For example, tracking active hours of developer contributions to a project stimulates adoption by easing concerns about dormant or stagnant open source projects.
By being able to understand development patterns and performance, academic groups can use data gathered by 6th Sense as a learning instrument for assessing student understanding and growth. A professor, for example, can see what tools are being used by which students, while also understanding the proportion of time a student, or group of students, are spending within a particular task, such as debugging versus coding. At the same time, the data gathered in the academic environment can be compared and contrasted with usage patterns and performance in the commercial market, bringing a real world perspective to the learning environment. Finally, students can create a report with their metrics to validate and substantiate their experience to prospective employers.
The 6th Sense 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.
To obtain a free version of 6th Sense for an academic or open source project, please contact 6th Sense Analytics.
About 6th Sense Analytics
6th Sense Analytics, a pioneer in improving 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. The company uses an open and independent architecture that provides visibility into the status of distributed software projects. Founded in 2004 by a team of experienced executives in the software development market, representing companies including Rational (now IBM), TogetherSoft and Borland, 6th Sense Analytics is a privately held company based near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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