6th Sense Analytics Named ``Cool Vendor'' by Leading Analyst Firm; Vendors Selected for the ``Cool Vendor'' Report Are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- 6th Sense Analytics, delivering real time insight into the life of software projects, has been named a "Cool Vendor" in the March 20, 2006, "Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2006" report published by Jim Duggan, et al of Gartner, Inc.

The vendors highlighted in this year's report are striving to make software development more measurable, repeatable and easily managed. They are part of a transformation in approach within IT. Managed processes are being created that can be re-used in successive projects. Persistent processes make instrumentation both desirable and necessary.

"6th Sense Analytics helps steer distributed software development projects towards success," said 6th Sense chief executive officer Greg Burnell. "Business and development teams have traditionally relied on bulky reporting tools or gut feeling to plan and deliver software projects. 6th Sense provides up-to-the minute, fact-based insight empowering teams to take the necessary steps to keep software projects on track and establish repeatable processes."

6th Sense uses an independent, open, web-services architecture to collect and analyze project metrics. A suite of community-supported software sensors integrates with leading tools, delivering a complete picture of the development lifecycle - not just from a single vendors' perspective. 6th Sense's AJAX-based reporting system presents metrics using online charts that can be customized to meet individual business and IT users' needs.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About 6th Sense Analytics

6th Sense is for everyone with a stake in software development. Founded in 2004 by a team of experienced developers, 6th Sense uses an open and independent architecture that provides visibility into the status of distributed software projects. We integrate with the leading IDE and editors such as Visual Studio and Emacs; source control management systems including ClearCase and Subversion; and change request management systems such as ClearQuest and Bugzilla. 6th Sense, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is already helping major systems integrators, independent software vendors and Fortune 500 companies steer distributed software projects towards success. For more information visit: http://www.6thsenseanalytics.com/.