Dean Takahashi Gives 6th Sense Analytics a Second Look
“When the 6th Sense Analytics founders presented their company at DEMO, I got a creepy feeling that this was another company using technology to invade privacy. I still have some of that feeling, but I’ve talked to the executives now to hear their side of it.
The tool can turn off its measurement of individuals and instead report collective data on groups. But the manager has the option to choose either way. The list price of the tool is $960 per annual subscription. 6th Sense uses the data from the tools to come up with its own meta data across companies, on an anonymous basis.
It can measure a team as small as a few people or a huge team. The company launched the full tool in September and has paying customers now. They’re finding out things. For instance, they notice that developers often use tools outside of Eclipse to do tasks that could be done within the software tool.
The tool pays off in a 24-hour development cycle that is common where you have programmers in the United States, Russia and China all working on the same code. You can have one team sign off and another pick up.”
You can read Dean’s full post here:
http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/takahashi/
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