PYXIS TECHNOLOGIES SELLS ITS ‘GREENHOPPER FOR JIRA' TOOL TO ATLASSIAN

Laval, Quebec, June 1, 2009—Pyxis Technologies is proud to announce the selling of GreenHopper for JIRA to Atlassian. GreenHopper is part of an innovative and efficient tool suite helping teams integrate Agile practices into their projects. Launched in September 2007, GreenHopper is an intuitive and simple interface for Agile project management on JIRA. GreenHopper has over 1000 clients worldwide.

Here are the motivations which led to the selling of GreenHopper for JIRA to Atlassian:

• Extend the scope of GreenHopper's distribution network;
• Reinforce synergies with Atlassian.

About GreenHopper

After his participation to a contest intended for developers, Jean-Christophe Huet, developer at Pyxis Technologies, created a new application for JIRA: GreenHopper. His initiative was supported by Pyxis Technologies. Together they deployed efforts to market GreenHopper. This partnership between Pyxis and a collaborator resulted in a big success: GreenHopper is JIRA's most popular plug-in.

About Pyxis Technologies

Pyxis Technologies is specializing in the development of customized software as well as in the development of tools promoting cooperation and helping developers deliver high quality software. In 2005, Pyxis Technologies decides to develop products. The first product development project is GreenPepper, a plug-in for Atlassian's Confluence. GreenPepper is a tool integrating executable specifications and automated functional testing into software development processes, thus reducing any ambiguity related to the expression of needs between all actors.

Right from the beginning, Pyxis Technologies experiments state-of-the-art development practices. At Pyxis Technologies, Agility is guiding its practices every day. Pyxis Technologies is recognized for its Agile training courses. In fact, since 2005, it trained and certified over 770 ScrumMasters. Up to now, Pyxis Technologies coached more than one hundred organizations in the adoption of Agile approaches. For more information, visit: www.pyxis-tech.com.

About Atlassian

Atlassian is an Australian company well known by Agile software development teams for providing tools that complement Agile practices, including continuous integration (Bamboo), code review (Crucible), code coverage analysis (Clover) and the most advanced enterprise wiki (Confluence). The company has more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit www.atlassian.com.

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If you would like more information, please contact Marie-Eve Trempe (tel.: 450 681-9094, ext. 131; e-mail: metrempe@pyxis-tech.com).

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