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

IJI's New Process Template: Agile Use Cases and Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 has Reduced Development Time and Costs at Swedish Insurer Lansforsakringar AB

OTTAWA, April 12, 2010 - 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. 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

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