zAgile Inc.

zAgile is the first Intelligent Software Information Management (iSIM) solution. By unifying existing software engineering environments, the Company enables collaboration, visibility, and predictability for all aspects of software project delivery. zAgile provides solutions for a range of problems including: insufficient change management and controls, lack of flexibility, excess cost, insufficient quality and high risk, all of which are inherent in today’s software development lifecycles.

Sanjiva Nath, Founder and CEO

Former VP Engineering for numerous venture funded companies, 24 years of experience

• Trigo Technologies – Product Information Management systems (acquired by IBM),
• ePit Systems – Trading technologies for capital markets (technology acquired by Hitachi),
• Abilizer Solutions – Web portal technology (technology acquired by BEA)

Various sales, marketing, and bus. dev. management positions, 14 years of experience

• JasperSoft – Open source Business Intelligence
• Sunopsis – Data integration, acquired by Oracle
• Business Objects – Business Intelligence, acquired by SAP
• SDP/Powersoft – Data modeling and application development, acquired by Sybase

zAgile provides a comprehensive out of the box solution on a low cost subscription basis. The company’s business model utilizes viral adoption in order to tap into the global open source developer tool community and build the user base. A trial version of the commercial license subscription is easy to install with a 30 day free evaluation. A fully supported product offering is available starting at $2,495 for a single server license (< 20 seats). Over time, zAgile intends to up-sell its installed base with additional server and application products as well as support for proprietary applications and tools in typical environments.

zAgile unifies all applications within the software delivery environment, with a unified portal, semantically enhanced search, full collaboration, thorough knowledge discovery, methodology dissemination, and dashboard level reporting  for all projects. Because of the breadth and depth of the offering, it’s difficult to directly compare zAgile to other players in the market. Some clearly offer Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolsets and suites. These are un-integrated, inflexible offerings that don’t solve customer problems. Others are better understood as Lifecycle stage tools. These are the components that are integrated into the zAgile portal. Thus, the competitive segments we’ve chosen to compare are not direct competitors, merely players in a similar market, many of which are go-forward partner targets for integration of their toolsets into the zAgile offering.