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zAgile Teamwork v1.2 is Generally Available

zAgile Teamwork v1.2 is now generally available for download here*.

*Note: Please make sure to email your Confluence and JIRA server IDs to 'sales at zAgile point com' so that we may provide the evaluation or customer license for your specific environment.

zAgile Teamwork includes three main components, and the new features are listed under each of the following sections. (for an overview of other features, check out the zAgile product feature table):

1) zCALM (zAgile Cohesion for Application Life-cycle Management): integration infrastructure, including semantic framework and software engineering knowledge model (other knowledge models, or "ontologies" can be plugged in for different domains)

•    Background reasoning and indexing
•    Inferred model is separate from base and is persisted in the database
•    Significant performance and scalability enhancements 

2) Wikidsmart Connector (wiki connector): semantically enables Confluence wiki from Atlassian.

•    Additional macros for improved template/form layout
•    Support for Table-Plus macro for improved rendering of query results
•    Improved user interface for "Smart Search", to instantly find precise content. Check out the video (requires log-in).
•    Confluence 3.0 Support
•    Support for ARQ extensions

3) JIRA Connector: JIRA issue tracker from Atlassian.

For a review of zAgile Teamwork and a 10 minute video, check out my last blog.

Maximum Efficiency and Predictability in Agile Software Engineering with JIRA and Confluence

Tired of late night phone conferences, countless e-mail threads, and way too many meetings to keep everyone in synch? Want to maximize the  efficiency of your agile software engineering processes?

Then check out the new 10 minute introduction video of zAgile Teamwork. We show you how to have a tightly integrated agile software engineering environment using Atlassian's Confluence and JIRA. zAgile provides the  "glue" to integrate any software engineering tool: issue tracker, wiki, version control, continuous build, etc.

Out of the box you have all the key pieces to handle:

- Requirements and Test Cases in Confluence: zAgile provides "smart templates" that allow you to capture these key concepts in a structured way PLUS tie them to Projects, Issues, and Tasks in JIRA.  And you can pull in information from JIRA as desired.

- Issues, Tasks, Projects in JIRA: this is the standard JIRA capability, and zAgile adds the ability to tie content directly to wiki and other tool content, and expose that external content inside JIRA

So why spend a fortune on IBM (Jazz / TeamConcert), Microsoft (Team Foundation Server), and Oracle (BeeHive) to make their own tools work together and also with external tools? zAgile delivers a highly affordable and open way to integrate information across your environment. That means you achieve:

- optimal efficiency with integrated phases of software engineering (agile, or otherwise)

- high predictability

- extreme traceability of Requirements

Take zAgile for a spin today at our hosted sandbox, and download to use in your own environment.

For a more detailed look at zAgile Teamwork, check out the 1 hour recorded Atlassian webinar.