ATLANTA – August 10, 2010 - VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, today announced the availability of its Summer Release featuring product roadmapping, project workspaces and a new Salesforce.com integration, CaseConnect. The latest product features were developed based on customer feedback, and provide usability improvements that continue VersionOne’s tradition of innovation in the agile management space.

Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced the Tasktop Agile Planner, a new product that leverages Mylyn connectors to provide Agile workgroups the ability to manage existing defect and project management systems with planning support that spans across multiple vendors’ solutions.  The planner provides a rich desktop client and Eclipse-based user interface for accessing Tasktop Certified Agile project management integrations, including ThoughtWorks Studios’ Mingle, IBM Rational Team Concert, Rally, CollabNet’s ScrumWorks, Atlassian’s JIRA and VersionOne. 

Microsoft has released last month the first official version of our latest process template – Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (formerly known as Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta). 

* PL/SQL plugin 1.8.1 released

The new version fixes an issue where an IndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown when a multiline comment is never closed or when a statement never ends with the ‘;’ character.

* Cobol plugin 1.2 released

The new version improves Enterprise Cobol and Microfocus grammars and makes the analyzer compatible with Sonar 2.2.

* Visual Basic 6 plugin 1.0.1 released

The new version fixes an issue of compatibility with Sonar 2.2.

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SAN FRANCISCO and BANGALORE, July 20, 2010 — ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM solutions, today announced Go™, a new Agile release management platform that allows organizations to incrementally automate the entire build, test and deployment process and release software faster and more reliably. Go enables Continuous Delivery, making it possible for enterprises to move from a world where software releases are governed by operational constraints to a world where they can release according to their business needs. Pioneered by ThoughtWorks as a key element of large-scale Agile adoption, Continuous Delivery combines automation and engineering rigor with a heavy emphasis on collaboration to break down the prevalent organizational silos that segregate development, QA and IT operations.

ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 28, 2010 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the availability of CA Portfolio Management for Agile IT, a new Agile Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) cloud solution designed to help executives make effective portfolio management decisions and capitalize on more rapid innovation using new Agile planning practices. The new solution, comprised of CA Clarity On Demand and CA Agile Vision, combines the latest version of the industry leading PPM application, with new capabilities for Agile planning in a cloud computing delivery model.

Waltham, MA, July 27, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today announced the immediate commercial availability of TeamPulse. Resulting from collaborative efforts between Telerik and consulting firm, Imaginet Resources Corp., TeamPulse is an integrated suite of agile scheduling, planning, and tracking tools designed to enrich team dynamics, bridging the boundaries between different stakeholders by providing greater insight into project context.

MONROVIA, CA (July 27, 2010) Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions that improve software quality and the development process, today announced the release of Parasoft Test. Parasoft Test is a new platform for integrating testing throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle. In addition to delivering the industry's most comprehensive set of capabilities for Java, C, C++, .NET, SOA, Web, Cloud, and message/protocol testing, Parasoft Test also provides task management and peer code review capabilities that support any programming language.

29 July 2010 - PureCM, the configuration management specialist, today announced a major new release of its core SCM solution, PureCM 2010-1 SQL Server.  This move to support market-leading RDBMS systems brings proven scalability and database management capabilities to software development teams.

Beverly, MA, July 19, 2010 – The combined company, SmartBear® Software, was created to make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to small and large development teams at a fraction of the cost of other software solutions. SmartBear unites a community of more than 75,000 developers and testers across three popular, like-minded tools vendors.