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Computer Associates Plans To Release Agile Development Tool On Force.com Platform

David Schach — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:25 +0000

Today, at Dreamforce 2009, Computer Associates plans to release CA Agile Planner(http://www.ca.com/agile), a tool to manage agile development teams.
CA Agile Planner will be integrated with CA Clarity PPM (http://www.ca.com/ppm).

Although it was not clear how much of the demonstrated app will run on Force.com and how much will run on the CA servers (though it appeared to be 100% on Force.com), it was clear that the application was accessed via a force.com URL.

For more information, see http://www.ca.com/agile.

A release date for the product was not mentioned, but the earliest planned release of any newly-announced feature thus far is Spring 2010, so one might assume that this will not be available until then.

Congrats to Dream Factory

David Schach — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:26:59 +0000

DreamFactory was written up in a post on Gigaom.com. The article did a great job stressing that their products (specifically DreamTeam) can run on many platforms. That’s because DreamFactory has written their own layer that can be placed on almost any platform with a bit of coding. It’s almost like DreamFactory came up with OpenSocial before Google did.
We use DreamTeam, Carousel, OrgView, DoX, and Snapshot regularly. FormFactory is just as powerful, but right now we’re experimenting with creating forms in Visualforce. For companies that want to generate more complicated forms, FormFactory is perfect. But since we use so few different forms, it’s easier (and a good learning experience) to work in Visualforce.
Check out DreamFactory’s products – here’s a big endorsement from us!