Sapient Makes Its Renowned Agile Development Methodology and Tools Commercially Available

Business Wire, Dec 4, 2007

Proven Agile ALM Solution and Professional Services Provide Collaborative Tools and Real-Time Performance Analysis Required for Successful Agile Development

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) today announced the launch of ResultSpace, its Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution that helps clients drive organizational performance, deliver results and realize additional value from their Agile investments. With a strong focus on usability and scalability, the purpose-built, proven solution aligns executive vision with engineer output and provides the development, planning and analysis tools both developers and executives need to succeed.

As one of the world's leading global services firms, Sapient is renowned for its ability to drive transformational development projects quickly and seamlessly because of its unique culture, methodology and collaborative tools. Many Sapient clients - impressed with the high performance of Sapient's development teams - sought to replicate the Sapient approach with their own internal teams. This demand led Sapient to package its intellectual property and create ResultSpace, thus making the Sapient approach more widely available to other organizations.

Market demand for greater access to Sapient's advanced technologies and proven methodology has grown considerably this year across both of Sapient's service groups - Sapient Consulting, its business and IT services arm, and Sapient Interactive, its digital marketing and advertising agency. Last May, Sapient made its proprietary BridgeTrack digital marketing suite commercially available for the first time due to growing client demand for a stand-alone product.

Continuing in a similar vein, ResultSpace - an integrated product and professional service solution - brings together pervasive wikis, ubiquitous search, comprehensive story management and other features to facilitate effective software delivery--even as teams become increasingly distributed across the globe and collaboration becomes more challenging. With ResultSpace, team and organizational needs--such as project estimation, planning, requirements management, version control and knowledge management--are organized around a secure, centralized repository that makes collaboration easy and is designed to scale with business needs.

"As the world's largest Agile-based services firm--Sapient--we have had the perfect opportunity to learn from the best practices that fueled Sapient's ongoing track record of on-time, on-budget delivery of large technology initiatives," said Brian Carter, vice president, Sapient. "ResultSpace has been built on this knowledge base and gives clients the opportunity to utilize proven delivery practices that have made Sapient successful."

ResultSpace organizes information in line with how actual development teams work--not what tools they use. By doing away with functional silos and organizing around activities like release planning meetings or collaborative story design sessions, Sapient's solution is more aligned with the familiar day-to-day experiences of Agile development teams and helps to reduce time-consuming context switches.

In addition, ResultSpace incorporates open standards and open-source technologies, making it a true enterprise Agile solution designed to meet the demands of today's complex IT environments and built to enable companies to work as true partners with their customers. Sapient's solution can be set up to easily connect customers with the information they need to understand project progress and intimately include them in the requirements elicitation, prioritization and acceptance process.

Furthermore, ResultSpace provides company executives and managers with real-time information on project progress and blocking issues, ensuring that problems are identified, discussed and solved early, helping to prevent increased cycle time, waste or skyrocketing project costs. The solution's rich, web-based user interface provides management with the tools needed to securely and effectively find and share information - both development team and client alike - at any time with within or across projects. By providing functionality that goes beyond the needs of individual teams, ResultSpace helps project managers and executives quickly distill complex information to make key decisions that promote delivery success.

Sapient's Agile Training and Professional Services

There can be completely different approaches to the theory and deployment of Agile, resulting in varying outcomes, because no two organizations are alike. Sapient prides itself on recognizing these differences and helps its clients not only adopt Agile but drive value from their implementations in a way that makes sense for the unique needs of their organizations. As the world's largest Agile-based services firm, Sapient has the experience to help clients get the most out of their new or existing Agile deployments. From adoption workshops to immersion training, Sapient can help an organization create a vision, align stakeholders and rapidly develop a concrete Agile adoption strategy.