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Rally Software Receives Accolades from Two Leading Industry Analyst Firms

Business Wire, June 17, 2009

Butler Group Recommends All Organizations Adopting Agile Development Methods Put Rally on Their Shortlist

BOULDER, Colo. -- Rally Software Development Corp.® received high marks for its Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) solution in recent reports by leading industry analyst firms Butler Group and Datamonitor. In its Technology Audit report, Butler Group said that all organizations adopting Agile development practices should put Rally Enterprise on their shortlist. Rally also received praise for its feature set and architecture in Datamonitor’s Decision Matrix: Selecting an ALM Vendor.

“We are honored to be recognized by these leading analysts in their independent evaluation of ALM solutions,” said Ryan Martens, founder and CTO of Rally. “Our passion for helping companies lean their development organizations and create better software faster is evident in every release and every customer success. We have our customers to thank for driving us to build a product that supports Agile all the way up the scale – from a team’s first pilot project to enterprise-wide deployment.”

“Butler Group was impressed with Rally’s Enterprise ALM Platform with its focus on supporting Agile development, offering an automated workflow system, and all provided via a Web interface, as well as hosted by Rally,” said Michael Azoff, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group.

Datamonitor’s Decision Matrix: Selecting an ALM Vendor is an independently published report and provides a summary of the capabilities of leading ALM vendors based on a quantitative assessment of their market impact and end user sentiment, as well as an objective assessment of the technology features they offer.

Rally Enterprise leverages the first programmable Internet platform for Agile lifecycle management to give teams easy and inexpensive ways to tailor ALM to their needs. In addition, Rally's Agile ALM products are supported by Agile training and consulting services that provide the needed skills to deliver a customer's first Agile projects within 60 days.

Butler Group subscribers can access and read the entire “Rally Enterprise ALM Platform” Technology Audit; visit www.butlergroup.com and search for “Rally.” Authors: Chandranshu Singh and Michael Azoff. (Publication Date: March 2009, Reference Code: TA001618ADT)

To download a copy of Datamonitor’s Decision Matrix: Selecting an ALM Vendor, visit http://www.datamonitor.com/store/Product. (Publication Date: April 2009)

About Rally

Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. Rally’s products were honored with four consecutive Jolt awards (the software industry’s equivalent of the Oscar® award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The company’s end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the largest source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. Rally currently supports more than 1,600 corporate customers, 42,000 projects and 63,000 users in 50 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

About Datamonitor

Datamonitor is the world’s leading provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors. We help our clients, 5,000 of the world’s leading companies profit from better, more timely decisions. Through proprietary databases and wealth of expertise, clients are provided with unbiased expert analysis and in-depth forecasts for seven industry sectors: Automotive & Logistics, Consumer Markets, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail and Technology. Datamonitor maintains its headquarters in London and has regional offices in Frankfurt, New York, San Francisco, Dubai and Sydney. See www.datamonitor.com for further details.

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