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6th Sense Analytics, Inc.

Product Name

6th Sense Analytics

Market Segment

Enterprise software and services

Funding

Seed round: Venture funding from Intersouth Partners and private investors, $1.7 million.

Competitors

No direct competitors at this time. Secondary competitors are alternative methods such as manual data collection using Excel and other tools, traditional project management and portfolio management tools, data-harvesting solutions and some SDLC platforms.

Product Description

A unique software-as-a-service solution, 6th Sense Analytics helps organizations achieve accurate and consistent visibility across distributed software development projects. By automatically and unobtrusively collecting activity-based data from developer tools and delivering on-demand analytics to individuals and teams, 6th Sense delivers insight into the time spent on specific activities. This provides a basis for understanding team effort, productivity and overall project velocity and helps ensure that software development projects are on time, on budget and on target with business goals.

Market Opportunity

The current market for 6th Sense includes software-development organizations such as commercial software vendors, enterprise application development groups, systems integrators and outsourcers. This market is estimated at 17 million by Evans Data, based on the number of developers worldwide. Over time, 6th Sense will also pursue markets beyond software development.

Demo Says

The tools and languages and data models may have changed, but the methodology of software development has hardly evolved in 40 years. Productivity is measured against timelines and bug reports, without real analytics to manage and support developer performance. 6th Sense Analytics finally gives development teams a data-driven approach to managing projects and productivity. As the trend moves toward globally distributed development teams, these business analytics will play a critical role in delivering results on time and on budget.