CA and Salesforce.com forge strategic partnership
ConvergenceAsia staff
23/11/2009

CA, the leader in Enterprise IT Management, and salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, have partnered to deliver agile development management in the cloud on the Force.com platform.

Through the alliance, CA and salesforce.com intend to introduce CA Agile Planner on Force.com to help small businesses and enterprises alike accelerate development timelines while gaining control and visibility over 100 per cent of their development initiatives.

Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com said, “Agile development is transforming the way that companies innovate, and by partnering with CA, we’re empowering companies to manage agile development in the cloud.”

CA Agile Planner is designed to build on salesforce.com’s agile management expertise. By being built on the Force.com platform, CA Agile Planner joins the more than 135,000 custom applications built by the salesforce.com community of 200,000 developers. It will better enable users to simultaneously manage multiple development methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).

“With CA Agile Planner, CA is seeking to leverage both technologies for the benefit of developers large and small. If they want to develop better cloud services, regardless of methodology, and get them to market faster, CA Agile Planner on Force.com will help get them there,” said John Swainson, CEO, CA.

According to current plans, CA expects that CA Agile Planner will be generally available in the first half of Calendar Year 2010 on salesforce.com’s AppExchange and from CA. The companies intend to co-market the solution.

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