Seapine Software Experiences Record Growth in 2006.Worldwide Customer Base Grows at Record Rate as Customers Increasingly Adopt Quality-Centric Tools for Software Application Development and Testing MASON, Ohio Mason is a city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, Mason's population was 22,016. It was the fastest-growing and most populous city in the county. Until February 1997, it was part of Deerfield Township. -- Seapine Software Seapine Software is a privately-held, Mason, Ohio-based software and services company whose products address software application lifecycle management and quality assurance. , Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM) solutions, today announced that it continues to experience strong revenue performance and its eleventh year of annual license growth. With sales growing faster than the market rate for ALM vendors, Seapine added over one thousand new companies as customers of its award-winning software configuration management, defect tracking In engineering, defect tracking is the process of finding defects in a product, (by inspection, testing, or recording feedback from customers), and making new versions of the product that fix the defects. , and automated software testing Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such solutions. Seapine's record growth in 2006 was driven by increased worldwide adoption of the company's TestTrack([R]) Pro, Surround SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ([R]), and QA Wizard([R]) solutions by leading organizations such as Logitech, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Siemens, and the National Institutes of Health. Seapine's outstanding showing was accelerated by the release of two new products in the fourth quarter--TestTrack([R]) TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. for test case planning and tracking, and TestTrack([R]) Studio for complete management of development processes, issues, and quality. "Companies understand that developing software, either for internal use, as packaged software See software package. , or imbedded software in devices, has become a critical core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
According to Tom Carozza, director of strategy, Seapine Software, "The consistent growth that Seapine experienced in 2006 is a clear demonstration that major, global organizations recognize the value of effective software development practices and they are choosing Seapine's quality-centric ALM tools to manage change and improve processes and quality in their software development activities." Global organizations are successfully using Seapine's tools to: * Provide real-time, secure access to source code files and issues while enabling parallel development, facilitating team communication, managing processes and tools used to create repeatable builds, and ensuring configuration changes are tracked. * Track and prioritize tasks, issues, and work items while streamlining communications and meeting critical compliance and policy requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley. * Automate functional and regression testing while tracking development-related defects and controlling changes to test scripts. All of Seapine's ALM products generate metrics-rich, customizable management reports and enable compliance with internal and external management controls. Seapine's tools enable a variety of popular software development methodologies and help managers implement and enforce industry-recognized software engineering best practices. About Seapine Software With over 8,000 customers worldwide, Seapine Software, Inc. is the leading provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management solutions. Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, with offices in Europe and Asia-Pacific, Seapine solutions help companies reliably and efficiently develop quality software applications. Seapine's products support best practices, integrate into all popular development environments, and run on Microsoft Windows([R]), Linux([R]), Sun Solaris([R]), and Apple Macintosh([R]) platforms. Visit www.seapine.com for more information about Seapine. |
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