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TechExcel Announces DevSuite 10.1

Latest Release Improves Communication and Collaboration between Developers and Project Stakeholders

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – April 26, 2017 – TechExcel Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, today announced the release of DevSuite 10.1. This latest release of the award-winning ALM platform enables developers and project stakeholders to better communicate and collaborate throughout the entire development lifecycle, resulting in faster delivery of higher quality products. A webinar highlighting DevSuite 10.1 is scheduled for April 27, 2017 at 11 AM (PDT). Click here to attend the live event.

“Large scale development projects frequently get delayed or go over budget due to the lack of effective communication and collaboration amongst project stakeholders and distributed development teams,” says Jason Hammon, Director of Product Management at TechExcel. “DevSuite makes it easy for everyone involved in planning, development and testing processes to work together, in real-time, to deliver quality products that are bug free and include the most current features and functionality required.”

Project stakeholders are often only involved at the beginning and end of a software project and, in most environments, Development and QA teams are globally distributed. These self-organizing teams typically utilize different tools to communicate and collaborate within their siloed environments. This creates debilitating bottlenecks that cost organizations both time and money.

DevSuite provides an integrated architecture that promotes cross-functional teamwork and ensures everyone is working together and shares the same final target – delivering a high-quality product that satisfies the necessary requirements. Users can easily attach documents and add comments that speeds problem resolution and encourages idea sharing. With real-time communication and collaboration; as well as, drag-and-drop document sharing and commenting, DevSuite eliminates common bottleneck problems and improves team efficiency and productivity for rapid delivery […]

By TEBlogger|April 26th, 2017|Categories: News, press releases 2017|Comments Off

TechExcel Listed as a Market Pillar in Info-Tech Research Group’s 2017 Mid-Market Service Desk Vendor Landscape

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – April 12, 2017 – TechExcel, Inc., a leading provider of IT Service Management and customer support software, is pleased to announce it has been listed as a Market Pillar in Info-Tech Research Group’s Mid-Market Service Desk Vendor Landscape for demonstrating a highly customizable solution that offers excellent automation capabilities between several core ITSM functions.

Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape reports recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace. Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and strategy for the enterprise, Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscapes showcase the contribution of exceptional vendors in a particular category. In this report, Info-Tech evaluated the top 13 competitors in the service desk market: Agiloft, BMC FootPrints, BMC Remedyforce, Freshservice, ManageEngine, Monitor 24-7Samanage, Quest KACE, Samanage, ServiceNow Express, SysAid, TeamDynamix, TechExcel, and Vivantio.

“As organizations increase their technical solutions to improve business functions, the need to access tools that will do more than just track incidents and service requests is a must,” Michel Hebert, Ph.D., Research Director and Executive Advisor – Infrastructure at Info-Tech Research Group states in the report. “TechExcel should be on the shortlist for any organization that is looking to improve processes not only within IT, but also throughout the entire organization.”

“We are pleased to be identified by Info-Tech Research Group as a Market Pillar in the marketplace and to have scored highly in product architecture, features and affordability,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “ServiceWise provides everything required for effectively managing all IT business processes, improving the support and experience of internal customers, and transforming departments into strategic assets capable of generating ROI.”

ServiceWise is a comprehensive ITSM platform with out-of-the-box configurations based on ITIL best practices for Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration management. In addition […]

By TEBlogger|April 12th, 2017|Categories: News, press releases 2017|Comments Off

TechExcel Named to SD Times 100 for Eighth Consecutive Year

Recognized for Leadership and Innovation in Application Lifecycle Management and Development Tools

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – June 15, 2016 – TechExcel, a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, has been selected for 2016 SD Times 100. Recognized a leader in the ALM and Development Tools category, this is the eighth consecutive year TechExcel has won the award identifying the software development industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencers.

“The software development industry has always been competitive, but never more so given the innovation we’re seeing in so many spaces, especially in the area of application life cycle and transformative development tools,” said David Rubinstein, vice president of editorial and operations at BZ Media and editor-in-chief of SD Times. “That makes it quite difficult to select those companies that are truly ‘blazing their own trail’ as leaders, innovators or influencers — but that’s what we did when choosing the 2016 SD Times 100. The editors carefully considered each nominee’s products and services, thought leadership, and reputation. Thanks to companies like Tech Excel, the future for software development is very bright!”

“It’s a great achievement and honor to once again be recognized for our contributions to the software development industry,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “This award recognizes our ongoing commitment to deliver innovative solutions that help Product Management, Development, and QA teams work together and speed development and delivery of quality products.”

Judged by the editors of SD Times, the SD Times 100 represents the best of the best in multiple software development industry areas. Published in the June issue of SD Times, the 2016 SD Times 100 is available at http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-100/sd-times-100-blazing-their-own-trail/.

By TEBlogger|June 15th, 2016|Categories: News, press releases 2016|Comments Off

TechExcel DevSuite 10.0 Speeds Application Development and Delivery

Latest Release Enables Teams to Easily Manage, Track and Validate Software Deliverables, Without Adding Complexity to Lifecycle Activities

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – April 25, 2016 – TechExcel Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, today announced the release of DevSuite 10.0. This major release of the award-winning ALM platform includes new capabilities, a wide range of product enhancements, and seamless integrations with third party tools that significantly increase the quality, agility and efficiency of development lifecycle activities.

“Developing quality software is challenging, given the complexity of modern applications, the demand for shorter cycles and quicker deliveries, and requirements that change continuously throughout the development lifecycle,” said Jason Hammon, Director of Product Management at TechExcel. “DevSuite simplifies and automates development and QA processes, ensuring software deliverables are effectively tracked, validated, and deliver what is intended.”

DevSuite helps Product Management, Development, and QA teams work together and speed development and delivery of quality products. The fully integrated platform includes comprehensive solutions for monitoring and controlling all processes of ALM including definition, design, development, testing, and deployment. By providing the end-to-end traceability and visibility necessary to effectively manage the complete development lifecycle, DevSuite saves companies time and money throughout their development processes.

The latest release of DevSuite features an integrated architecture that facilitates dynamic linking of requirements to all development artifacts. This enables full bi-directional traceability from product design through development, testing, bug fixing and release. By linking requirements, dev tasks and test cases, DevSuite ensures finished products are bug free and deliver the most current features, functionality, and user experience customer require.

New DevSuite enhancements and capabilities also include:

Black Theme support
In-line editing & Resizable editing controls
Improved support for Scrum and Kanban
Story board and Backlog […]

By TEBlogger|April 25th, 2016|Categories: News, press releases 2016|Comments Off

TechExcel Named to SD Times 100 for Seventh Consecutive Year

Recognized for Leadership and Innovation in Application Lifecycle Management and Development Tools

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – June 5, 2015 – TechExcel, a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, has been selected for 2015 SD Times 100. This achievement marks the seventh consecutive year the company has been recognized for demonstrating innovation and leadership in the software development industry. TechExcel was selected for the ALM and Development Tools category.

“To once again be recognized for our contributions to the software development industry is a great achievement and honor,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “We continuously strive to deliver innovative solutions that increase the quality, agility and efficiency of development lifecycle activities, which helps our customers deliver superior software products to market.”

Judged by the editors of SD Times, the SD Times 100 represents the best of the best in multiple software development industry areas. Published in the June issue of SD Times, the 2015 SD Times 100 is available at http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-100/sd-times-100-2015-top-of-the-heap/.

By TEBlogger|June 5th, 2015|Categories: News, press releases 2015|Comments Off

TechExcel Announces DevSuite 9.5: Enhanced PPM Capabilities and Sharp New Interface Increase Productivity and Deliver Greater User Experience

TechExcel DevSuite 9.5: Enhanced PPM Capabilities and Sharp New Interface Increase Productivity and Deliver Greater User Experience

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – February 23, 2015 – TechExcel Inc., a leading provider of integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions, today announced the availability of DevSuite 9.5, a major release of its ALM platform with fully integrated PPM. The latest version of DevSuite features significant feature enhancements to the DevSuite PPM capabilities and a completely redesigned new Graphic User Interface (GUI) that deliver a significantly greater user experience and increase the performance and productivity for users.

Companies around the world use TechExcel DevSuite to deliver higher quality products to market faster, reduce project costs, monitor performance, and work more efficiently. Both long-time customers and new users will be excited to see the elegant and intuitive new user interface, enhanced and expanded PPM capabilities, and experience the improved usage and productivity that DevSuite 9.5 delivers.

“It’s no longer enough for software development and project management tools to just support development methods with agile or traditional practices,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “With the release of DevSuite 9.5, we’re providing our customers with an enterprise-strength, high caliber PPM solution to manage all projects based on definable project workflows and procedures compliant with ISO, ITIL, CMMI, and other standards.”

DevSuite has always been a premium, feature rich ALM and Development Management solution. With its seamless integration of PPM and ALM, organizations can define, enforce, and monitor critical project-level milestones and workflows, while allowing implementation teams to choose the most appropriate methodology for their work, such as Agile, Waterfall, or a hybrid approach. While many development projects are becoming more Agile and require less and […]

By TEBlogger|February 24th, 2015|Categories: News, press releases 2015|Comments Off

TechExcel Announces ServiceWise 9.5: Elegant New Interface Delivers Greater User Experience

TechExcel ServiceWise 9.5: Elegant New Interface Delivers Greater User Experience, Increases Service Desk Productivity and Self-Service Efficiency

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – February 23, 2015 – TechExcel, Inc., a leading provider of IT Service Management and customer support software, today announced availability of ServiceWise 9.5, a major new release of its ITSM and support-focused CRM software. This latest version of ServiceWise features a modern new Graphic User Interface (GUI) that delivers a significantly greater user experience, combining sophisticated functionality and ease-of-use to increase the productivity of IT support teams and self-service efficiency of internal customers.

Companies around the world use TechExcel ServiceWise to deliver higher quality IT services, better support and improve the experience of internal customers, and transform their departments into strategic assets capable of generating ROI. With configurable workflows, flexible process automation, and out-of-the-box best practices configured for IT service management and ITIL processes, ServiceWise can be completely customized to streamline any business process and easily scales to meet the needs of any organization.

“Now more than ever, service desk teams strive to deliver high-quality service, consistently and cost effectively,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “The sharp new interface for ServiceWise is designed for simplicity, without minimizing complex functionality, to increase the agility and productivity of service teams that directly correlates to the self-service efficiency and satisfaction of internal customers.”

ServiceWise’s amazing new user experience, combined with TechExcel’s proven IT service management solution experience, makes gathering, processing and resolving issues faster and more efficiently. Through fully customizable employee self-service portals, users can easily submit and track tickets; while robust automation ensures all necessary data is passed to the agents for faster resolution. ServiceWise also features personalized dashboards with tailored announcements, searchable […]

By TEBlogger|February 24th, 2015|Categories: News, press releases 2015|Comments Off

TechExcel to Present at StarWest 2014

Presentation Focuses on Applying Comprehensive Requirements Traceability Processes to Ensure Product Quality

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – October 8, 2014 – TechExcel, a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, today announced that Jason Hammon, Director of Product Management at TechExcel, will be speaking at the 23rd annual Software Testing Analysis and Review (STAR) conference on Wednesday, Oct 15, in Anaheim, CA. TechExcel is a Gold Sponsor of StarWest, the premiere event for software testers and quality assurance professionals, taking place October 12-17, 2014.

Jason’s presentation, entitled “Quality Management and Traceability with DevSuite,” will show attendees how DevSuite and applying a comprehensive requirements traceability approach to software development can significantly improve quality and time to market. He will also cover challenges and best practices when quantifying software quality and how DevSuite, which is specifically designed to manage both Agile and traditional projects, streamlines requirements, development and QA processes. To learn more, visit http://starwest.techwell.com/.

Who: Jason Hammon, TechExcel Director, Product Management
What: Quality Management and Traceability with DevSuite
When: Wednesday, Oct 15, 12:40 PM (PDT)
Where: Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA

Jason has over ten years of experience in software development as well as a diverse mix of creative and analytical experiences in entertainment, marketing and statistical analysis. Prior to joining TechExcel, Jason worked for Commerce One and was a recording artist for Universal Music. Jason received a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings School of Law and holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University East Bay.

By TEBlogger|October 8th, 2014|Categories: News, press releases 2014 & before|Comments Off

TechExcel Adds GIT Support to Development Tool Suite

New DevSuite-Git integration extends developer flexibility, enables full traceability throughout the development lifecycle

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – August 18, 2014 – TechExcel, a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, today announced its suite of software development tools now provide out-of-the-box support for GIT, the open source distributed version control system (DVCS) designed for speed and efficiency. The seamless integration with TechExcel’s ALM solution, DevSuite, increases the agility of developers using GIT and provides managers and QA teams with full transparency and traceability throughout the development lifecycle.

“Support for GIT has become one of the most requested features from our customers,” said Dr. Tieren Zhou, TechExcel Founder and Chief Software Architect. “The combination of GIT’s flexibility and the comprehensive issue management capabilities of DevSuite helps our customers more efficiently manage distributed development projects and move to faster, more frequent release cycles.”

The DevSuite-GIT integration makes it easy for developers to associate all code commits with the bugs, issues and development tasks managed within DevSuite. Using “pre-push” hooks to launch the tracker interface, developers can select one or multiple issues from their project or sub-project. “Post retrieve” hooks then ensure all work is automatically updated within the issue management software.

Developers can also associate details and meaning to code commits, such as who did what, when and why. Users can also generate detailed reports for all GIT commits linked to bugs, issues and tasks. This provides organizations with a clear audit tracking, enabling full traceability and effectively managing task ownership, status and activity.

TechExcel DevSuite seamlessly integrates with more than 20 version control systems, enabling organizations to use the SCM tool of their choice, and is designed specifically to […]

By TEBlogger|August 18th, 2014|Categories: News, press releases 2014 & before|Comments Off

Rethinking Application Life-cycle managment

Software has changed, end points have changed, even the role of the developer has changed. So, it only makes sense that the way developers and organizations manage the application life cycle would have to change too.

In the beginning, the ALM process was very independent, according to Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne. “You kind of had your application life-cycle-management capabilities that supported requirement-management tools, design tools, coding tools, test tools, build source, deploy tools and project-management tools,” he said. “At first there was a lot of disintegration. Each one of those tools was completely independent.”

With the ever-increasing demand for better quality, better user experience, faster delivery and advanced technologies, the way in which tooling has worked together has evolved.

“Through the years, tool sets have become integrated,” said Holler. “All those tools are no longer independent tool sets; they are actually integrated tool sets that all work together to help manage the project, the product and the process, all at the same time.”

But it hasn’t just been the tool sets going through an evolution; the entire scope of ALM has changed. Where once testing had a definitive role at the end of the life cycle, or requirements took up a large part of the life cycle, the aspects of the life cycle are now linked together. “The life cycle starts with a business idea and doesn’t end with delivery of some value to a customer, but rather cycles around with feedback back to the business again to say did we actually meet the need,” said Kurt Bittner, Forrester analyst.

– See more at: https://sdtimes.com/rethinking-application-life-cycle-management/#sthash.vLvgc49A.dpuf

By TEBlogger|July 2nd, 2014|Categories: in the news 2014 & before, News|0 Comments