Ivar Jacobson International Announces Support for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010

Ottawa, April 12, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - Ivar Jacobson International, a
Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, announced today that it
will ship Ivar Jacobson International's most widely used Practices
with Visual Studio 2010.

The practices combined into a new process template called Agile
Use cases provide excellent support for those customers who would
like to get the structure from the unified process yet in an agile
fashion integrated with the Microsoft development environment. It
will give development teams the power to develop new Use cases,
report on them and view a complete visual story as their use case
develops.

IJI's client Lansforsakringar AB, a Swedish Insurance Company has
been using IJI's new Agile Use case process template and Visual
Studio since September 2009. Lansforsakringar AB has reported a 20%
decrease in development time and costs since deploying the combined
solution.

"Ivar Jacobson's simultaneous release of its EssWork Practices
for Visual Studio 2010 enables developers to take advantage of the
latest features in Visual Studio 2010," said Dave Mendlen, senior
director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft Corp."Microsoft is
excited about the opportunity this creates for our mutual customers
to unleash their creativity using the powerful features of Ivar
Jacobson's EssWork Practices and Visual Studio 2010."

IJI will be providing the following for launch of Visual Studio 2010:
- Process Guidance
- EssWork adapted for VisualStudio - describing the "how to"
- Work Items to support agile and iterative use case driven development
- Document structure and templates in SharePoint site
- Reports on the same level as the Microsoft process templates
- Generation of traditional use case artifacts such use case model
survey, use case specification
- Project dashboard based on top level alpha states, describing the state
of the project based on the milestones in the Unified Process

This ready to use template could also be a starting point to
build support for any customized development process since IJI
provides a framework for process authoring and composition in
addition to the pre-built process template.

About Ivar Jacobson International

Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company that
helps software organizations transform and improve the way in which
they develop software solutions as well as guide them in meeting the
expectations of the business. http://www.ivarjacobson.com

For further information: Americas Press Contact: Leigh Ann Empey,
lempey@ivarjacobson.com, +1-613-274-7994; Europe & Asia-Pac Press
Contact: Pernilla Ramslov, pramslov@ivarjacobson.com, +46702693150

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CONTACT: For further information: Americas Press Contact: Leigh Ann
Empey,lempey@ivarjacobson.com, +1-613-274-7994; Europe & Asia-Pac
Press Contact:Pernilla Ramslov, pramslov@ivarjacobson.com,
+46702693150/