AccuRev Extends Agile Solution with Full Rally Software Integration

Lexington, MA, July 10, 2009 --(PR.com)-- AccuRev Inc. today announced full support for Rally® Software’s Agile Lifecycle Management Solution. When implementing and managing Agile development, users of both AccuRev and Rally can take advantage of this fully automated integration to eliminate manual error-prone process and optimize the software development lifecycle.

Development teams can utilize industry leading solutions from AccuRev and Rally, with out-of-the-box integration. AccuBridge for Rally provides this integration through an easy-to-use field mapping and bi-directional integration for issues, defects, tasks, and user stories. With this integration, users have full traceability between stories and defects, and the source code changes are fully automated.

With AccuBridge for Rally, users can now:

Automatically synchronize Rally defects/issues, tasks, and stories with AccuRev directly, in order to ensure data integrity and easy reporting.
Utilize change packages for issue-based development within AccuRev, and have full bi-directional integration providing traceability in Rally.
Have full visibility of source code changes within Rally, providing comprehensive integrated reporting.

"As users of both AccuRev and Rally, we utilize best-of-breed tools in order to implement an optimal Agile software development environment,” said Lieh Han, Senior Software Engineer, ClearCycle Corporation. “AccuBridge for Rally provides us with the desired AccuRev and Rally integration, which has saved us valuable time by automating our processes, and synchronizing the data.”

“We have seen an increased rate of adoption of Agile processes among our users, and they have expressed the need for integration with leading Agile project management tools,” said Cliff Utstein, vice president of business development, AccuRev. “With Rally software, our joint customers have the ability to fully automate the Agile software development lifecycle process.”

“Through this partnership, Rally and AccuRev will offer a solution for complete traceability across the Agile enterprise to give the business improved project visibility and give developers improved business context,” said Zach Nies, VP of products for Rally.

Availability
AccuBridge for Rally, which provide full integration between AccuRev and Rally is available immediately directly from AccuRev. For more information, contact your local AccuRev sales representative at 1-800-383-8170.

About AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev optimizes and automates the software development process to allow organizations using Agile or other development process models to accelerate their throughput and release higher quality software. AccuRev’s flexible and efficient approach to managing the software release process together with code assets is relied on by organizations challenged with doing Agile and parallel development, transitioning to Agile development practices, or managing geographically distributed and offshore teams. AccuRev ensures greater project visibility, optimal team collaboration, and software asset reuse to deliver more software at over 30 percent faster than traditional file-based, branch and label SCCM solutions. AccuRev, the fastest growing SCCM company, is used by over 500 global enterprises including Polycom, Texas Instruments, American Airlines, Orbitz, Thomson Financial, Verizon Wireless and Lockheed Martin.

AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700 (Outside North America).

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