Corporate Backgrounder

Software development organizations can expect to realize the following benefits as part of retooling their software development processes using AccuRev:

Improved visibility, communication and collaboration among developers engaged in globally distributed development
Reduced costs and increased productivity from the elimination of time-consuming manual processes
Improved ability to execute multiple projects in parallel with limited engineering resources
Improved software quality due to reduced errors associated with highly automated software development practices such as continuous integration
Better project management metrics that emerge naturally from automated processes
Ease of use, agility, high performance and process flexibility to easily accommodate multiple processes and organizational change

Company Background

AccuRev was originally founded in 1998 by Damon Poole and associates to provide consulting services to development organizations, particularly those using ClearCase (now part of the IBM Rational suite) who required better process support. AccuRev began shipping commercial software products in 2002 to address the limitations of branch and label software change and configuration management (SCCM) tools with an innovative stream-based architecture and process-centric SCCM product that shares the company name.

Early customers included American Airlines, DISA, BAE Systems, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, Siemens, Sony, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Polycom.

In 2005, AccuRev secured its first infusion of outside venture capital from Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Velocity Ventures. This allowed the company to attract and retain leading industry talent for its management team and to make dramatic improvements to the AccuRev product line. Customer growth accelerated and customer satisfaction increased dramatically. AccuRev began to be widely recognized by technology industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester Research as an important and reliable supplier to the software development process needs of large corporate and government customers. During this time, AccuRev technology has been lauded by industry analysts and press, and has received numerous third-party industry awards. Total Customers Year-End

Growth

AccuRev has consistently added to its impressive list of worldwide Customers each year. In 2007, AccuRev was ranked by IDC as the fastest growing company in the SCCM market, with compounded annual growth of 55 percent per year.

Select Customers

AccuRev has been most successful to date being sold as a horizontal solution; however, the Company has a strong foothold in vertical markets that place value on improved software development processes. AccuRev has particularly excelled when organizations are managing Agile, parallel, geographically distributed, or outsourced software development projects where software is a mission critical asset.

American Airlines	Dreamworks	Kodak	National Semiconductor	SanDisk
Avaya	First New Zealand	Lawson	Northrop Grumman	Siemens
Boeing Corporation	The Hartford	Liberty Financial	Orbitz	Sony
Boston Scientific	Honeywell	Lockheed Martin	Polycom	Texas Instruments
Broadcom	IDT	Lufthansa Systems	Putnam Investments	T-Mobile
Daimler Chrysler	JPL	McAfee	Raytheon	Xerox

Management Team

AccuRev has an experienced, respected leadership team, including:

Lorne Cooper President	Damon Poole Founder & CTO	David Jabs VP, Engineering
Cliff Utstein VP, Marketing & Business Development	Frank Price VP, Technical Services

"As one of the original architects and multiple patent holders for ClearCase, I recognize that software development has changed considerably over the last 20 years. This change requires a tool that meets the needs of today’s more complex and agile environments."

– David Jabs, VP Engineering, AccuRev

Select Partners

AccuRev partners with industry leading companies offering software, services, and platforms to provide a comprehensive solution to address your specific requirements.

Atlassian Software, Coverity, Deiser, Electric Cloud, Elsinore Technologies, FinalBuilder, GlobalLogic, Go2Group, JetBrains, m2eclipse, Norsys Technology AB, Openmake Software, Parasoft, QuickBuild, Rally Software, ReleaseTEAM, Serena, Smart Bear, Softwork, SourceIQ, Sparx Systems, TechExcel, Urbancode

Service, Support and Training

AccuRev customer service utilizes engineers that are trained cross-functionally in order to deliver technical support and professional services. Every AccuRev engineer has completed the Teacher Training for the AccuRev Certified Engineer (ACE) program, and has extensive industry experience in optimizing an organization’s software process. In addition to technical support, AccuRev engineers provide process audits, deployment services, ALM integration services, ACE training, and end-user training.

Process Assessment and Consulting

AccuRev process experts work with an organization’s teams to adapt, design and implement repeatable processes for software development throughout the enterprise environment. AccuRev also provides customized analysis of an organization’s configuration and change management processes based on industry-standard best practices.

AccuRev Training Services provides training solutions for developers of all skill levels throughout the world, leveraging a highly experienced community of partners and web-based technologies.

Enterprise Migration

AccuRev provides comprehensive professional services to assist customers in planning and executing the migration to the AccuRev. AccuRev has assisted over 500 companies world-wide with improving their development process by migrating to AccuRev. While each migration varies based on development team size, existing processes and planned new processes, AccuRev has developed a common framework for successful migrations. This 5-step process can generally be accomplished in under 12 weeks, depending on the size of the organization, and the commitment to process change:

The Process Evaluation documents the pros and cons of the current development processes and ensures that all stakeholders are involved in process improvement efforts.
The Process Recommendations ensure that process evaluation results are factored into the migration plan.
Security Recommendations identify and document appropriate security considerations.
Remote Development Planning ensures that local and remote teams can work as if co-located.
Enterprise Migration Guidelines document the requirements and lessons learned from workgroup migrations to help guide enterprise-wide AccuRev deployment.

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SVP of Engineering, McAfee

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