North Carolina's Research Triangle area is afforded many unique advantages that make it an exceptional place to start and grow a company. Carolina Blue skies, an enviable quality of life and access to first-class talent are just the beginning of what makes this place unique. There's also true breakthrough innovation happening in RTP today.
This was strikingly evident at this week's Tech 2006 conference, sponsored by The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation. CED handpicked 27 local vendors to show off their wares at this year's event--and 6th Sense brought home the hardware, taking 2nd Place in the People's Choice Award for best product demo. The drumbeat continues for 6th Sense!
In addition to the breadth of commercial innovation on display, there was also lots of interesting discussion and debate on the main stage. David Bonderman of the venerable private equity firm Texas Pacific Group discussed trends in the private equity and venture capital markets. iRobot CEO Colin Angle lent perspective on the remarkable success and the more-than-meets-the-eye vision of his company. Salesforce.com president, Jim Steele, spoke convincingly on the wisdom of software as a service (we couldn't agree more), and the radical transformation we're seeing in how software is built, sold and experienced.
All in all, an exceptional day for 6th Sense and the RTP market--further proof that 6th Sense is onto something very big and RTP is more than blue skies and good barbeque.
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Company Will Demonstrate its Software Development Analytics Solution at Tech 2006 in October
August 28, 2006, MORRISVILLE, NC -- 6th Sense Analytics, a pioneer in improving software development metrics, today announced it has been selected by The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) to demonstrate its technology innovations at Tech 2006. The conference will be held on Oct. 10 and 11 at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. 6th Sense will demonstrate its leading-edge technology for automatically collecting software development data and aggregating metrics, providing a basis for keeping software projects on time, on budget and on target with business goals. Data is gathered from the leading development tools and presented within a rich, web-based user interface, providing a variety of visualization and analysis tools for developers, project managers and IT executives. The product is offered as a software service delivered online via a web browser.
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6th Sense is getting some star power. Dr. Philip Johnson, a pioneer in software development metrics and professor of information and computer sciences at the University of Hawaii's Collaborative Software Development Laboratory (phew), is coming aboard the good ship 6th Sense. Dr. Johnson is joining as a member of our advisory board, where he�ll lend his considerable skills and vision to our work in development metrics and also help our community building.
Dr. Johnson (or Philip as he likes to be called) is the principal creator and leader of the Hackystat project. Hackstat is an open, web services based framework that is capable of helping individuals collect metrics in order to gain greater insight into software development projects.
When we first started work on 6th Sense we conducted a thorough search of software development measurement and metrics, and quickly came to the conclusion Hackystat is the best there is. We immediately contacted Philip with a view to establishing a major, on-going relationship with him and his CSDL team.
Why? Well, we share a common and powerful vision that empirical software development can help bring in projects on time and on budget by giving teams the resources they need early on. By joining forces and working together we believe we can realize this vision quicker than if we worked separately in silos.
The Hackystat framework serves as the core technology for our sensors, which are already helping technology teams collate development metrics for people to keep their software projects running smoothly. In addition to contributing on going patches and bug fixes we will also contribute our sensors back to the community, to maintain openness and visibility. So far, we've already released sensors for Subversion and Bugzilla among other leading tools. Lastly, we are also contributing $25K to the CSDL for added support.
We're looking forward to a long, fruitful and - needless to say - enjoyable relationship with Philip, his team and the community in delivering on our shared vision of closing the knowledge gap between metrics and software development.
With software developers descending on Las Vegas (Mix06) and Santa Clara (EclipseCon), it�s high time we updated you about events at 6th Sense Analytics that should appeal to both communities. 6th Sense Analytics is close to debuting a browser-based service that helps software developers focus on doing what they care most about (developing) and also allows the business to get on with what it cares most about most (business).
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"In software development optimism is a disease, feedback is the cure." ~Kent Beck, Agitar Fellow
6th Sense's simple goal is to improve software development by providing feedback. Welcome to the newly launched 6th Sense Analytics website. You'll notice that this website is a tad different. We opted to make our home page a weblog to provide you with fresh information as we evolve our company and products. Our goal with this inaugural post is to introduce 6th Sense and cover some basic FAQ stuff. If we don't address your question, feel free to email us at info@6thsenseanalytics.com. Your question may even be the topic of a new post here.
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Our Desktop solves a complex problem. It integrates with multiple versions of 6 development tools, running on 5 operating systems (Windows, RedHat Linux, Suse Linux, CentOS, and Mac OS X), and is accessible via 4 web browsers ( IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari, and Opera 9 ). Combine this with the fact that it operates through firewalls/proxy servers makes the problem even more challenging.
Sounds fun, doesn't it?
This release is a significant milestone for our young company and is the culmination of a large re-design based on our collective customer experiences. When we sat down to plan our development of the new Desktop, our data was a huge factor in our decision-making. Despite the 6 calendar months invested in the development of the first version of the Desktop (including minor bug-fixes, etc), we had only 120 cumulative active development hours. Our team averages about 100 active hours each week. Given the depth and significance of our desired changes and the relatively small investment in the Desktop, the decision to start from scratch and rewrite the Desktop was pretty easy (as easy as these decisions can be).
5 weeks and 450 active hours later (yeah we added some stuff), 6th Desktop 2.0 is ready.
Key Highlights
- Brand new UI for managing sensors
- All new sensor infrastructure for simplifying sensor behaviour (updated each sensor)
- Support for multiple installations of 1 sensor ( great for your 3 versions of Eclipse )
- Support for multiple users on 1 install ( great for shared machines )
- Migrated to ports 80 and 443 for all communication
- Numerous enhancements to sensors
- VIM sensor reimplemented and now supports installation in Cygwin.
- 20+ bug fixes
If you have any feedback or suggestions don't hesitate to write to support@6thsenseanalytics.com
By all accounts, BarCampRDU was a huge success, and we couldn't agree more.
First, thanks to the organizers (Fred Stutzman and company) for the outstanding job. Second, thanks to all the sponsors (including Red Hat for the space). We are proud to be part of the group that helped make the event possible.
We gave several presentations including product demonstrations, "Ajaxifying web development with Dojo"; and "The shape of things to come in Scalable Vector Graphics". All sessions were well-attended and were a lot of fun to lead.
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Doug Schepers, our SVG guru/evangelist in residence at 6th Sense Analytics, will be giving three presentations in support of SVG in the Triangle area of North Carolina:
6th Sense Analytics is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 2006 Gartner Application Development Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, September 25-27.
From the Gartner site:
"The Gartner Application Development Summit will spell out the steps you need to take to steer your organization in the right direction. You'll learn to sharpen your focus on SOA even more as we dive deep into discussions of agility and speed -- and the new requirements demanded of your management, architecture, infrastructure and people. The Summit will cover the most pressing issues surrounding BPM and how to solve new challenges presented by packaged applications, Web services and much more."
More information about the summit here: http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/ad8.jsp
BarCamp is headed here to the RTP area and we are very excited to be part of it. Judging from the wiki it's shaping up to be a very cool event. 6th Sense Analytics is now a proud sponsor of the event. Plus, we'll be sending a few folks from our team (including me, Todd Olson) to chat about AJAX, SVG, and Software Development Metrics. We look forward to seeing everyone at the event on July 22.
