BANGALORE, India, Feb. 11, 2010 – HP today announced enhancements to HP Agile Accelerator to help customers increase the quality of their applications, enhance productivity, and respond to changing business scenarios quickly and cost-effectively.

Based on HP Quality Center software and HP Application Lifecycle Management consulting services, HP Agile Accelerator manages Agile development projects from proposal to production while helping IT departments better meet their application modernization initiatives.  

HP Agile Accelerator helps software development teams improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their business initiatives with predefined workflows, configurations and user reports. Recent enhancements include a built-in resource planning module, which allows development teams to better manage their Agile projects.

“Application development organizations are increasingly adopting Agile development practices to better manage risk and cut development costs,” said Margo Visitacion, analyst, Forrester. “It’s time for testing to become more Agile as well. Traditional end-of-the-life-cycle testing is dead.”

Recognizing the need to align applications to business priorities, one of the top initiatives for IT decision makers is to modernize existing legacy applications.  According to a recent Forrester report, almost 60 percent of respondents rated application modernization initiatives as “very important” or “important.”

By using HP Agile Accelerator for application modernization initiatives, customers can improve business agility with faster response to changing requirements. Change impact analysis allows application teams to understand how a change to a given shared component may affect dependent applications.