Rally Software Works with Salesforce.com to Simplify Software Management and Bring Ideas to Market

Rally's award-winning Agile life cycle management solutions have been used to support its customers in over 6,500 Agile product releases. Rally Support Connector, Rally Community Manager and Rally Product Manager integrate Salesforce CRM applications with Rally's software life cycle management solutions to bring transparency into development status, drive development priorities based on customer value and speed time to market.

"Salesforce.com's AppExchange is enjoying increasing success, and more and more vertical solutions are available to help Salesforce users extend the success of their CRM deployments," said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer at salesforce.com. "Rally Software is helping to define the high-tech vertical by driving greater innovation, collaboration and customer responsiveness with their broad portfolio of AppExchange applications."

Rally's Agility Suite for the Force.com platform includes:

. Rally Support Connector improves customer responsiveness by letting support staff communicate the development status of customer-reported defects and feature requests from within Salesforce. It also gives development teams working in Rally greater visibility into the details of customer defects and requests, and notifies customers when their defects and feature requests are addressed in a new release.
. Rally Community Manager is a suite of Web 2.0 services for publishing and collaboration that have been tailored for customer support, feature collaboration and community building. With Rally Community Manager, companies can build customer, partner and employee portals around their shared knowledge and use that information to drive new feature priorities based on community rankings.
. Rally Product Manager enables product managers and business analysts to easily plan and release a continuous flow of products and services based on customer input taken directly from Salesforce. Product managers and business analysts can easily create feature roadmaps driven directly from customer requests and competitive win/loss reports, and release managers can synchronize their global workforces around critical product launch milestones, tasks and deliverables.

"Emerging Web 2.0 concepts like mashups and social networking are creating incredibly high expectations for technology companies to deliver the customer's most valued features as quickly as possible," said Ryan Martens, Rally founder and Chief Technology Officer. "Together, Rally and salesforce.com combine the best practices of on-demand applications and Agile development principles to help high-tech product companies and IT organizations quickly meet customer needs and respond to market feedback."

"It's critical to Authoria's success that we can seamlessly facilitate a smooth flow of accurate, real-time information about how our internal resources map to our customers' priorities," said Mike Galyen, director of product management at Authoria. "As an early adopter of Rally's new features and integrations, we're excited to extend our use of Rally's software life cycle management solutions by integrating with CRM from salesforce.com. Rally is helping us realize our vision of a single source of truth that closes the gap between customer needs and product capabilities."

Pricing and Availability

New products in Rally's Agility Suite join other Rally applications available on salesforce.com's AppExchange and build on more than a dozen integration connectors Rally announced recently at the Agile 2007 conference. Rally Support Connector is free of charge and available for demo and deployment today on salesforce.com's AppExchange. An early version of Rally Product Manager, called Agile Product Manager, is available free of charge on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Rally Community Manager starts at $1.50 per active user per month for a minimum of 1,500 users and is available now as a stand-alone product or integrated with Salesforce through Rally Support Connector. More information, demos and presentations on these products are available at www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing.  Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.

The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.

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