HP enhances Agile Accelerator

BANGALORE, INDIA: HP announced enhancements to the HP Agile Accelerator to help customers increase the quality of their applications, boost productivity, and respond to changing business scenarios quickly and cost-effectively.

Based on HP Quality Center software and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) consulting services, the Agile Accelerator manages Agile development projects from proposal to production, while helping IT departments better meet their application modernization initiatives.

The solution helps software development teams improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their business initiatives with predefined work-flows, configurations and user reports. Recent enhancements, include a built-in resource planning module, which allows development teams to better manage their Agile projects.

“With Agile quickly becoming a key methodology for application modernization, it is critical for customers to balance quality, performance and security standards with the need for speed,” said Subbu Iyer, VP—Products, ALM, HP Software and Solutions, HP.

“With varied ongoing development projects using different methodologies, we needed a solution to accommodate both Agile and non-Agile efforts, yet fit into our existing enterprise architecture. By leveraging HP Agile Accelerator with HP Quality Center, we expect to increase efficiencies for each development team,” said Timothy Perry, Chief Technology Officer—Retirement and Protection, Genworth Financial.

According to a recent Forrester report, almost 60 percent of respondents rated application modernization initiatives as 'very important' or 'important'.

“Application development organizations are increasingly adopting Agile development practices to better manage risk and cut development costs. It is time for testing to become more agile as well,” said Margo Visitacion, Analyst, Forrester.

By using HP Agile Accelerator for application modernization initiatives, customers can:

*Improve business agility with faster response to changing requirements

*Reduce the risk of application performance degradation by finding defects earlier in the life-cycle

*Increase RoI by delivering quality software early and frequently throughout the application life-cycle

*Enhance productivity through greater collaboration

HP Consulting Solutions for Agile:

HP offers a broad set of services and expertise to support customer application modernization initiatives with Agile practices, including:

*HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Consulting Services for Agile—comprehensive assessment, design, implementation and management services for ALM and Agile strategies help customers increase the success of projects

*HP ALM Discovery Workshop for Agile—leverages HP Agile Maturity Model to help businesses define a roadmap and adopt Agile to support business objectives

*Agile Accelerator Packaged Implementation Services—accelerates time to value for customers by tailoring the solution for individual customer needs and environments