Application Development Trend's Kurt Mackie has posted a great overview of the latest release of 6th Sense Analtyics:
Who needs intuition when you've got software to automatically track a project's development time?
6th Sense Analytics Inc. has issued a June version of its project management solution for software development teams. The company offers a software-as-a-service-delivered application that helps provide a standardized basis for assessing projects.
Dr. Dobbs Journal was quick to publish a mention of our latest enhancements:
To illustrate, one area of software development in which collecting metrics is invaluable has to do with project estimation. It is generally accept that poor estimation is responsible for the majority of software development project failures, and most estimates are based on subjective, inaccurate data, guesswork, and gut-feel intuition. This is one of the areas that the new release of 6th Sense Analytics addresses by providing a new set of capabilities for high-precision project estimation.
Computerworld's Mark Hall discusses the new release of 6th Sense Analytics in a recent article on SaaS (Software as a Service).
New Features Bring Accurate Visibility to the Status and Risk of Software Development Tasks and other Specific Work Items
Morrisville, NC -- June 11, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today announced it has added significant new features to its award-winning solution. The June release delivers unprecedented visibility into the ongoing status of software development tasks, as well as a basis for estimating and diagnosing why projects miss their deadlines. This new capability builds upon the 6th Sense Analytics solution by providing a more detailed resolution of project work, correlating the data that 6th Sense Analytics automatically collects to the specific tasks, defects, enhancement requests and support issues at the heart of software development projects. The June release also adds several administrative enhancements, including capabilities for monitoring the technical status of data collection, and a more flexible permissions model for enabling and disabling user access to data. 6th Sense Analytics will showcase these new capabilities this week at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2007 in Nashville, Tenn.
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6th Sense Analytics Named One of the Most Innovative Technology Companies in the Southeast
Morrisville, NC -- June 5, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, has been named one of the Tech50, an annual list of the most innovative technology companies as judged by TechJournal South, the business publication of the southeast�s new economy. The Tech50 promotes the southeast technology community and is focused on fostering economic growth, entrepreneurial spirit and increased interaction among technology thought leaders in the region.
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Dr. Dobbs recently interviewed Todd Olson, CTO of 6th Sense Analytics, regarding his thoughts on software development metrics.
"The consolidation of the software-development lifecycle toolset has motivated vendors to expose a rich and comprehensive set of APIs for the purpose of integrating their own tools. This created a powerful opportunity for us to tap into these tools to capture meaningful, API-level events about the execution of the software development process. We don't measure coarse-level units such as keystrokes -- in fact, we don't think that sort of data is meaningful. We look at the discrete events and activities that are taking place -- designing, editing, debugging, testing, commits, etc."
Victor Cruz has profiled 6th Sense Analytics and our customer Core Objects in his recent article
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Offshore Outsourcing Risk & Opportunity published by American Venture Magazine.
An excerpt from the article:
Never has it been so cheap to launch a startup. The cost of operating a company has been steadily pushed down thanks to hosted software or SaaS applications, Web 2.0 tools, fat, ubiquitous bandwidth, enterprise acceptance of open source software and the commoditization of much hardware and networking gear.
"Innovation has forced technology to nose dive in price," said Jeffrey Finkle of Odeon Capital Partners, New York. "What used to cost a million dollars to get a Web idea operational now costs $50K."
Web 2.0 and so-called social networking, as a web phenomenon and category, is hot in part because it costs so little to launch a web-based business.
With capital needs not as crucial, the pressure shifts to getting new ideas out the door and into the market as fast as possible. To speed time-to-market, many VCs are telling their portfolio companies to step aside and let the engineering be done by strangers in foreign lands. Firms such as Enterprise Partners, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures, Sierra Ventures and Venrock Associates are investing in third-party outsourcing arrangements with offshore software development houses on behalf of their portfolio companies.
But while sending high-end functions offshore can yield speed-to-market, cost and skill advantages, it does so at a price: loss of visibility and managerial control...
Industry and Academic Leaders Gather for Interactive Discussion on What it Takes To Make Outsourced Projects Successful
Morrisville, NC -- May 2, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, will host an interactive Webcast on May 10 at 1:00 pm ET featuring industry and academic leaders discussing what it takes to make outsourced software development successful. Some of the industry's most notable experts on this topic will participate in the discussion, including: Dr. Arie Lewin, Professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), and author of the just-released Duke/Booz Allen Comprehensive 2006 Survey Report "Next Generation Offshoring: The Globalization of Innovation"; Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing; Steve Mezak, CEO and founder of Accelerance, Inc. and author of Software without Borders; and James Diggs, VP of business development and strategy for Janeeva Corp., and Outsourcing Tools chapter chair for the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
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SD Times published Greg Burnell's recent letter to the editor. Greg, CEO of 6th Sense Analytics, asks "No more left turns? According to United Parcel Service (UPS), turning left wastes time, fuel and introduces risk. So “Brown” has more or less banned the practice of turning left as a business process optimization measure. Why do organizations go to these lengths to wring pennies and seconds from their processes?"
You can find the answer in his letter at SD Times.
Leading Offshore IT Services Company Will Use Software Development Metrics
Solution to Optimize Process Transparency and Client Satisfaction
Morrisville, NC -- April 23, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, today introduced EPAM Systems as the most recent addition to a growing 6th Sense Analytics customer base. The 6th Sense Analytics solution allows software developers and managers to automatically collect software development data and delivers immediate insight into the execution of physically distributed software development projects. For two years in a row, EPAM was rated the number one software development service provider in Central and Eastern Europe. EPAM will use 6th Sense Analytics to optimize transparency into its software development projects, providing an accurate basis for understanding how and where engineering resources are being applied.
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