Sapient Unveils ALM Solution

By Kuertemaji sapient issued a Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform to help organize projects, change management and collaboration. The latest version of the companys assets and liabilities management software, the so-called resultspace, sapient from an internal solution, as a general offer.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States is known more as a consultant, and provide marketing services as a software vendor. It has two main divisions. Sapient focused on interactive marketing and sapient advice contained in the rest of the companys services.

Sapient published resultspace, to a large extent with customers, they want a solution and will continue to leverage sapient the way of doing business, according to Erik Last summer, the product manager resultspace sapient.

"We thought, How can we consider our accumulated intellectual property, we and packaging, which have become a turnkey solution?, Last summer said," If an organization Agile to be taken iterative development techniques, how they can do so, so that it was based on real life experience, testing best practices "? Sapient use its ALM solutions for domestic about four years to support its customers. Resultspace release that the company ", built on the ground," Last summer, is not the companys first into providing software products. May of this year, the company announced its bridgetrack commercial marketing software.

Resultspace is a collaboration tool, designed for medium to large organizations, whether it is in the process of adoption, or have adopted, agile development technology. According to the companys announcement, the resultspace including Wikis, collaboration and document project ideas. The "real-time" reporting capabilities to support decision-making. It subversive use of open-source software configuration management tools, and the story of management capacity. It uses a special search algorithm, for information retrieval.

Last summer, the emphasis on product availability and scalability.

"Focus on usability is an important issue," he said. "If you do not own a right, no matter how scalable products, no matter how large the underlying technology or features and functions, it will become shelfware." Many people believe that Agile development because it involves small teams, but Last summer, you can be agile team said today that, from only a few people, while more than 100 people, and still maintain agile development cycle.

Large organizations with special problems, so that the Agile development, as well as asset liability management tool, is the least, Last summer, explained.

"Challenges facing large organizations to move toward a more agile in the iterative development process, its 80/20," he said. "80%, it is organizational change management, and the remaining 20 percent is the process and the choice of tools, in the grand scheme of things, processes and tools, is the tip of the iceberg." He emphasized that the change is a long-term commitment, not just one for the organization and installation of a tool.

Resultspace is a web-based products, can be used for more than one network, whether it is behind the firewall or through Internet transactions. The product is currently available for sapient provide three different licensing model. There is also a software as a service, on-demand version of the experts at the scene as a subscription-based version and sapient also provide permanent permit.