zAgile, Inc.
Location: 101 California Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, California 94111, United States United States
Founded in: 2006
Stage: 1.0 (formal launch)
Number of employees: 6-15
Profitable year: 2010
Short URL: vator.co/zagile-inc
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zAgile, Inc.

Integrating Teams, Tools, Processes, and Knowledge
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.zAgile.com
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Company description
zAgile provides information integration for software engineering tools and teams in order to maximize efficiency and collaboration amongst team members and executives. zAgile applications integrate any software engineering open source or proprietary tools including wikis, issue trackers, version control, continuous build, etc.
Team

Sanjiva Nath, CEO & Founder of zAgile, Inc.
Sanjiva has more than 25 years of experience in software technology and advises Silicon Valley start-ups in offshore software development strategies and overall software engineering operations, including iLoop Mobile, NewScale, and AssistGuide.  His focus has been on developing and deploying high-volume and high-transaction enterprise applications and systems on a variety of technologies and platforms. He has also successfully built and managed high-performance and scalable teams across multiple geographies for a number of technology start-ups. He co-authored two patents and has authored several books in software engineering. Prior to founding zAgile, he served as VP of Engineering at several companies including Trigo Technologies (acquired by IBM), ePit Systems (technology acquired by Hitachi), Abilizer Solutions (technology acquired by BEA), and planet U (acquired by Transora). Sanjiva holds a B.S. degree in Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/sanjiva/nath
 

Andrew Lampitt, VP of Marketing, Co-Founder
Andrew has more than 14 years of experience, with various positions in sales, marketing, business development, and product management. He began his career in sales and marketing while based in Chicago, Boston, and London for start-up SDP Technologies, acquired by Sybase. While based in Paris with Business Objects, Andrew was a program manager responsible for the user interface of the first web-based business intelligence product. As General Manager of Asia-Pacific for start-up Sunopsis while based in Singapore and Sydney, he built and led the company’s second fastest growing region prior to the company’s acquisition by Oracle. Andrew joins zAgile from Jaspersoft, the leading commercial open source business intelligence vendor, where he was Director of Business Development, managing strategic alliances from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Andrew earned a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/andrew/lampitt

 

Business model

zAgile uses a commercial open source business model known as "open-core licensing." The core product is open source, and a commercial version is a super-set that provides additional premium features.

Competitive advantage
zAgile's open source and open standards approach undercuts traditional enterprise software providers' software engineering integration solutions and provides affordable solutions at the grass-root engineering team level.