Rally Unveils Flowdock® Enterprise

BOULDER, Colo., March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally (NYSE: RALY), a leading global provider of software and services to drive agility, today announced new features and the general availability of Rally® Flowdock® Enterprise. A powerful collaboration app, Flowdock Enterprise helps software developers and other teams exchange, discuss, and act on ideas, while offering the enterprise security, support, and data-retention policies vital to large-scale deployments and operations.

"Today's teams depend on numerous tools and sort through massive amounts of information to get their jobs done. More than ever, teams are distributed across geographic locations and business functions, and they experience even greater workflow challenges: distractions, ambiguity, lack of visibility, and context switching in multiple environments," said Ryan Martens, founder and CTO of Rally. "The updates we're announcing today will help companies succeed by allowing their teams to focus on what matters most. We are providing a single place where they can collaborate, update work, and gain visibility organization-wide, which will allow companies to deliver higher-quality products and services at faster intervals."

Flowdock Enterprise integrates with more than 90 tools in one, easy-to-navigate platform. Plus, it incorporates all the powerful features of the Flowdock application — including threaded chat and a team inbox — with added capabilities to address the needs of large, complex businesses. The enhancements announced today remove the friction teams experience as a result of context switching between development tools, and provide the critical security and functionality large enterprises need to collaborate effectively. 

Two-way Integrations Smooth Team Flow

New, two-way integration capabilities in Flowdock Enterprise connect key Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to Flowdock Enterprise's unique team inbox in both directions. Flowdock Enterprise's team inbox aggregates work activity from a team's integrated tools, providing a window into what they're working on. With new two-way integrations, teams can now update their work right from within Flowdock Enterprise. This streamlines and simplifies the user experience for diverse and distributed teams, smooths the flow of work throughout the development pipeline, and improves productivity by reducing the need for context switching between tools.

Using two-way integrations, teams can concentrate on completing day-to-day work within one platform — collaborating across teams, timezones, and tools within the context of existing discussions or activities. Current two-way integrations include GitHub, PagerDuty, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, and Zendesk — with more planned in the near future.

"With the new two-way Zendesk integration with Flowdock Enterprise, teams can now quickly see customer issues and collaborate on them," said Maxime Prades, senior manager, platform marketing, Zendesk. "Our partnership with Rally helps companies and teams get straight to what matters most - more efficient communication so they can deliver the best service to their customers."

Collaborate With Confidence Across the Enterprise

Flowdock Enterprise also adds enterprise administration capabilities, including native single sign on (SSO), enterprise service level agreements (SLAs), custom data retention policies and priority support.

To learn more about Rally's strategy to help organizations evolve to a collaborative mindset, and to hear from Rally customers and partners, sign up for Rally's upcoming webinar series: "Collaborating Across Teams." The series kicks off on Wednesday, April 15th at 10 a.m. MT with a discussion about how the right collaboration tools and mindset can empower your teams.

Rally Flowdock Enterprise is available with Rally Unlimited Edition subscriptions and as a standalone solution. Existing Rally customers can activate today, or, to start using Flowdock Enterprise for free, please visit https://www.flowdock.com/enterprise.  

About Rally

Rally delivers software and services that drive agility. Organizations worldwide use Rally's solutions to navigate evolving market demands, improve performance, and accelerate the pace of innovation to deliver value faster. Rally's enterprise-class SaaS platform transforms the way organizations manage the software development lifecycle by aligning software development with strategic business objectives, facilitating collaboration, and increasing transparency. By applying Agile and Lean approaches, Rally's consulting and training services help companies innovate, lead, adapt, and deliver. Learn more at www.rallydev.com.

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