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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – December 4, 2007 – Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE) today announced the launch of ResultSpace, its Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution  that helps clients drive organizational performance, deliver results and realize additional value from their Agile investments.  With a strong focus on usability and scalability, the purpose-built, proven solution aligns executive vision with engineer output and provides the development, planning and analysis tools both developers and executives need to succeed.

As one of the world’s leading global services firms, Sapient is renowned for its ability to drive transformational development projects quickly and seamlessly because of its unique culture, methodology and collaborative tools.  Many Sapient clients – impressed with the high performance of Sapient’s development teams – sought to replicate the Sapient approach with their own internal teams.  This demand led Sapient to package its intellectual property and create ResultSpace, thus making the Sapient approach more widely available to other organizations. 

Market demand for greater access to Sapient’s advanced technologies and proven methodology has grown considerably this year across both of Sapient’s service groups – Sapient Consulting, its business and IT services arm, and Sapient Interactive, its digital marketing and advertising agency.  Last May, Sapient made its proprietary BridgeTrack digital marketing suite commercially available for the first time due to growing client demand for a stand-alone product.

Continuing in a similar vein, ResultSpace – an integrated product and professional service solution – brings together pervasive wikis, ubiquitous search, comprehensive story management and other features to facilitate effective software delivery—even as teams become increasingly distributed across the globe and collaboration becomes more challenging.  With ResultSpace, team and organizational needs—such as project estimation, planning, requirements management, version control and knowledge management—are organized around a secure, centralized repository that makes collaboration easy and is designed to scale with business needs.

“As the world’s largest Agile-based services firm—Sapient—we have had the perfect opportunity to learn from the best practices that fueled Sapient’s ongoing track record of on-time, on-budget delivery of large technology initiatives,” said Brian Carter, vice president, Sapient.  “ResultSpace has been built on this knowledge base and gives clients the opportunity to utilize proven delivery practices that have made Sapient successful.”

ResultSpace organizes information in line with how actual development teams work—not what tools they use.  By doing away with functional silos and organizing around activities like release planning meetings or collaborative story design sessions, Sapient’s solution is more aligned with the familiar day-to-day experiences of Agile development teams and helps to reduce time-consuming context switches. 

In addition, ResultSpace incorporates open standards and open-source technologies, making it a true enterprise Agile solution designed to meet the demands of today’s complex IT environments and built to enable companies to work as true partners with their customers.  Sapient’s solution can be set up to easily connect customers with the information they need to understand project progress and intimately include them in the requirements elicitation, prioritization and acceptance process.

Furthermore, ResultSpace provides company executives and managers with real-time information on project progress and blocking issues, ensuring that problems are identified, discussed and solved early, helping to prevent increased cycle time, waste or skyrocketing project costs.  The solution’s rich, web-based user interface provides management with the tools needed to securely and effectively find and share information – both development team and client alike - at any time with within or across projects.  By providing functionality that goes beyond the needs of individual teams, ResultSpace helps project managers and executives quickly distill complex information to make key decisions that promote delivery success.

Sapient’s Agile Training and Professional Services
There can be completely different approaches to the theory and deployment of Agile, resulting in varying outcomes, because no two organizations are alike.  Sapient prides itself on recognizing these differences and helps its clients not only adopt Agile but drive value from their implementations in a way that makes sense for the unique needs of their organizations.  As the world’s largest Agile-based services firm, Sapient has the experience to help clients get the most out of their new or existing Agile deployments.  From adoption workshops to immersion training, Sapient can help an organization create a vision, align stakeholders and rapidly develop a concrete Agile adoption strategy. 

Sapient provides the following core services to enable clients to be successful with Agile deployment:

1. Agile Readiness Assessment

This detailed assessment of an organization’s current state relays how and when to adopt agile methodologies and drive lifecycle management

2. Agile Adoption Workshop

Utilizing Sapient’s Fusion workshop process, this workshop builds organizational alignment and creates a concrete, actionable agile development adoption plan

3. ResultSpace Project Kick-off

This offering combines training with hands-on support to ensure that teams are ready to execute an Agile project.

4. Organizational Change Management

This offering provides ongoing support to ensure that agile development initiatives are successful over the long-term.  Development teams will be able to assess and drive change management to ensure that they continue to improve the quality and efficiency of their agile projects.

Additional information on Sapient’s Agile consulting and training programs is available at: http://www.resultspace.com/ResultSpace_Training_Datasheet.pdf

ResultSpace Features
The ResultSpace solution includes many key features including the following:

1. Pervasive Wikis—ResultSpace’s wiki engine utilizes an intelligent and easy-to-use syntax that enables users to link project artifacts to one another and to assets such as graphics or code inline.  All stories, tasks, tests, defects and issues are backed by wikis, ensuring that ideas can be captured flexibly, and in context.

2. Meaningful Real-Time Reporting—Real-time data is essential for effective decision-making.  ResultSpace produces myriad management views that provide immediate visual feedback into project progress and product quality.  In addition to out-of-the-box templates for iteration checkpoints, team-retrospectives and defect/issue review reports, ResultSpace supports custom report construction through its powerful wiki engine.

3. Universal Repository Access—Using the Subversion stand-alone Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution, ResultSpace provides secure, universal access to project code and documents.  In addition, by using HTTPS/SSL and WebDAV, ResultSpace enables users to transact remotely with project data without additional software installation or license management.

4. Comprehensive Story Management—Associations between artifacts are created and managed by ResultSpace, streamlining the process of building a story, allowing the team to focus on creating value instead of manual bookkeeping.  Every change made to a story and associated task, test, defect and issue is captured and traced bi-directionally in a change log that provides a single view into all content that is easily browsed from the user interface and provides an easy to use audit trail.

5. Ubiquitous Information Retrieval —ResultSpace includes intelligent filtering and scoring algorithms to ensure that users spend less time searching for information and more time using the data they need.

Availability and Delivery
ResultSpace is available in two different delivery formats: a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) solution or a self-hosted deployment.  For information on how to purchase the solution, please contact Sapient at resultspace-info@sapient.com.

About ResultSpace
ResultSpace is the Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution that enables application development leaders to realize additional value from their Agile investments by aligning executive vision with engineer output.  The pragmatic solution—already proven successful in multiple client engagements—is purpose-built to provide the tools developers and executives need to drive organizational performance and deliver results.  For additional information on ResultSpace, please visit: www.resultspace.com.

About Sapient
Sapient, a global services firm, operates two groups—Sapient Interactive and Sapient Consulting—that help clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace.  Sapient Interactive provides brand and marketing strategy, award-winning creative work, web design and development and emerging media expertise.  Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support.

Sapient’s passion for client success—evidenced by its ability to foster collaboration, drive innovation and solve challenging problems—is the subject of case studies on leadership and organizational behavior used by MBA students at both Harvard and Yale.  Leading clients, including BP, Essent Energie, Harrah's Entertainment, Hilton International, Janus, Sony Electronics and Verizon, rely on the company’s unique approach to drive growth and market momentum.  Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sapient operates across North America, Europe and India.  For more information, please visit www.sapient.com.

Sapient is a registered service mark of Sapient Corporation.