GlobalLogic Selects 6th Sense Analytics
Major Global Product Developer Latest to Adopt Award-winning Software Development Metrics Solution
Morrisville, NC -- July 9, 2007 -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a pioneer in automating software development metrics, announced today that its solution has been selected by GlobalLogic, a Vienna, VA-based global product development services firm with development centers in the US, India and Eastern Europe. 6th Sense Analytics automates the collection of software development metrics, helping organizations bring physically distributed projects into focus. GlobalLogic is implementing 6th Sense Analytics as a key part of its distributed Agile method, Velocity™ and open source platforms, providing deeper visibility into the status, progress and risk of distributed software development processes for the company and its clients.
"Transparency and trust are critical within the partnerships GlobalLogic has with its technology clients," said Stuart Donovan, CTO of GlobalLogic. "6th Sense Analytics has delivered an unprecedented level of visibility into globally distributed software development, and we see that as a powerful aspect of Velocity™ and the resulting software solutions we develop with our clients. 6th Sense Analytics is addressing a challenge the software development community has wrestled with for ages and we�re thrilled to be working with them in such a strategic capacity."
GlobalLogic will adopt 6th Sense Analytics as a foundation of their software development processes, providing a basis to more effectively manage cost, deadlines and resources associated with global product development. This transparency will allow GlobalLogic to more closely partner with their clients, providing an empirical basis for knowing specifically how software projects are unfolding.
GlobalLogic will integrate 6th Sense Analytics as a component of the GlobalLogic Velocity™ Method, which combines a proven distributed Agile methodology with state-of-the-art, open source-based tools for global software product development. The Velocity™ Method includes a blueprint of proven processes and best practices and an integrated set of applications and repositories to support the complete software development lifecycle. As a component of Velocity™, 6th Sense Analytics will provide GlobalLogic clients a unique level of visibility into the profile of an active development project, allowing them to understand where and how investments are made and effort is expended across a project team.
"We're very excited to welcome GlobalLogic into our family," said Greg Burnell, co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics, Inc. "GlobalLogic and 6th Sense Analytics are both companies who deeply value the principles of transparency, trust and process excellence in software development. This commonality makes the relationship very natural and rewarding for us."
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 GlobalLogic
The leader in global product development, GlobalLogic Inc. partners with technology leaders to help bring great products to market in less time and at less cost. GlobalLogic has developed a unique joint-venture model of partnering with technology companies to create a dedicated global delivery center. By leveraging GlobalLogic�s global facilities and world-class engineers, companies can increase quality while dramatically reducing timelines and operating costs, often by more than 60 percent. Through its Velocity™ method and platform, GlobalLogic is also a pioneer in distributed Agile methods and open source platforms that shorten product development cycles while ensuring that the right features are implemented on time, every time. GlobalLogic has ongoing partnerships with more than 120 technology firms in markets that include enterprise software, consumer internet, VoIP, wireless, telecom, security, payment and finance. It has completed more than 300 major product releases in the last 12 months with a better than 95 per cent on-time delivery record. Its partners include industry leaders such as AOL, Autodesk, Avolent, Electronic Arts, IBM, iFlex, NexTone, Sony Digital and Trimble. GlobalLogic is an Inc. 500 company, has been ranked as one of the 10 best places to work in India by IDC, and was recently recognized by Deloitte & Touche as the fastest-growing company in Virginia. GlobalLogic is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, while its European headquarters are in London, U.K. The company has global delivery centers throughout the U.S., India and the Ukraine, and employs more than 1,700 professionals worldwide.
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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