Rally Software Intros Programmable Internet Platform for Agile Lifecycle Management

Rally Software Development has said that it is introducing the “first” programmable Internet platform for Agile (News - Alert) lifecycle management.  

 

Specifically designed for software lifecycle management, the new offering includes a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture to provide software-driven organizations with a programmable platform.

 

Not only does this extend the Rally application, it also connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals.

 

PaaS is said to be an outgrowth of the Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) application delivery model. The PaaS model supports the end-to-end life cycle of building and delivering Web applications and services available from the Internet, eliminating the need for software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users.

 

“The beautiful thing about delivering a PaaS architecture is it directly meets our customers’ need to tailor ALM to their specific idea-to-market business processes,” said Ryan Martens, CTO and founder of Rally.

 

He also said that these platforms are being made “popular” in the enterprise by Salesforce.com and Google (News - Alert), adding that Rally is at the “forefront” of offering ALM customers these same advantages, but tuned to the needs of the software-driven enterprise.

 

Building on its versioned Web services APIs for REST, SOAP and JSON, Rally introduced new PaaS capabilities, including Rally Mash-up Toolkit for creating mash-ups, charts and views deployed in custom Rally tabs.

 

Additional capabilities include Rally Integration Toolkit for creating integrations or custom reports; the ability to deploy Rally mash-ups into Web portals, wikis, IDEs, and more.

 

To distribute information, a catalog of pre-built mash-ups, reports and views are maintained by the Rally community on www.agilecommons.org; a separate development and testing sandbox to test integrations and mash-ups prior to deploying into production.

 

Other enhancements include upgrades to Rally Support Connector, the new features in Rally’s integration with Salesforce.com (News - Alert) CRM which improve visibility into development status of support cases and streamline the management of customer-reported defects.

 

Officials said that combined with the release of Rally’s new Mash-up Toolkit and enhancements to Rally’s enterprise solutions, Rally customers can manage the whole software lifecycle using their own customized set of Rally applications.