Petrotechnics Selects AccuRev's AgileCycle to Improve Software Development Efficiency and Accelerate Agile Adoption

Global Oil & Gas Software Leader Creates Custom Agile Solution with AgileCycle’s Superior Flexibility and Ease-of-integration

April 12, 2011, Lexington, MA:  AccuRev, Inc. today announced that Petrotechnics, a leading provider of software and services for the oil and gas industry, has selected AccuRev’s AgileCycle, the Agile ALM suite, to improve the efficiency of its software development processes and to accelerate their Agile development.   Petrotechnics evaluated a number of competing solutions and selected AgileCycle for its superior flexibility, ease-of-integration and scalability. Petrotechnics software is used by oil and gas companies and other organizations in the hazardous process industries to transform the efficiency and effectiveness of their frontline operations.

“Our top requirement as we moved to update our tools was to find a flexible Agile solution that we could easily implement, and AgileCyle was the clear choice,” said Stephan Buchan, ALM Toolset Architect. “Our trials of numerous competing solutions revealed AccuRev’s superior integration quality, requiring minimal effort and providing us with the flexibility to customize AgileCycle for our specific needs.  With AgileCycle we could implement our pre-defined custom Agile methodology without having to compromise our goals or our vision in any way.” 

Petrotechnics first deployed AccuRev SCM tools in the fall of 2009, and returned to AccuRev again in late 2010 to further upgrade its processes.  The Scotland-based company is among 100 companies in the UK and Europe using AccuRev SCM and AgileCycle to increase throughput and release higher quality software.  AccuRev recently announced expanded operations in the UK to meet rising demand for its solutions in the region.  More details about AccuRev’s UK expansion can be found at http://accurev.com/press-releases/20110331-accurev-expands-with-UK-operations.html.

AccuRev broke new ground with the launch of AgileCycle in 2010, offering companies like Petrotechnics the first fully-integrated best-of-breed Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite. The suite integrates Software Configuration Management (SCM), Agile Lifecycle Management, and Build and Release Management. AgileCycle is designed for development managers, product owners, and teams with mixed development methodologies interested in a turn-key approach for tooling Agile and iterative best practices.

 “Organizations like Petrotechnics have found that AgileCycle can dramatically improve software development effectiveness through all stages of the lifecycle," said Lorne Cooper, CEO, AccuRev.  “We look forward to working closely with Petrotechnics in helping to support their goals of accelerating their Agile adoption process and optimizing development effectiveness.”

About Petrotechnics

Petrotechnics is transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of frontline operations across the oil & gas industry. Sentinel PRO® is the leading global solution which fundamentally shifts the approach to planning and integration of all aspects of frontline work; giving real control and assurance of work activities. Petrotechnics has become the Control of Work best practice in many of the top energy companies. Globally, Petrotechnics award winning Sentinel PRO® solution is improving productivity and enhancing workforce safety at 280 sites across 20 countries, safeguarding over 50,000 personnel. Petrotechnics is headquartered in Scotland.  For more information please visit www.petrotechnics.com. 

About AccuRev Inc.

AccuRev offers solutions that optimize, automate, and accelerate the software development process for organizations using Agile, waterfall, or hybrid development process models.  Our award-winning products, AgileCycle, a comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management suite (ALM), and AccuRev SCM, a Software Configuration Management solution, allow development teams to increase throughput and release higher quality software.  Our customers benefit from integrated professional services for consulting, deployment and training. AccuRev is used by over 600 enterprises worldwide including American Airlines, Ford Motor Company, Lockheed Martin, Orbitz, Texas Instruments, Thomson Financial, and Verizon Wireless.

AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700 (Outside North America).