Twin Rivers Technology Group Standardizes Application Development on Aldon ALM

EMERYVILLE, CA, Aug 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
Aldon, the leading provider of process-driven application lifecycle
management (ALM) solutions, today announced that Twin Rivers Technology
Group (TRTG) -- a subsidiary of Anderson News Group -- has standardized
its application development process on Aldon across multiple platforms
and locations. The company chose Aldon ALM because it brings process,
visibility, and workflow to the development lifecycle and puts all users
onto the same solution regardless of platform. IT managers gain a crystal
clear view of all IT assets and projects at any given time and ensure
compliance standards are met, while developers are freed to focus on
application innovation rather than administrative tasks.

TRTG builds and runs the applications that support numerous distribution
channels for major book and magazine distribution centers across the
country -- from ordering, shipping and tracking to payroll and inventory
-- supporting both the front and back-end of IT. The company's IT team is
a busy one and at any given time there are more than 35 development
projects running across a team of 20 developers bouncing back and forth
from RPG programming to Java.

Diana Barnhart, IT Systems Manager of TRTG, states, "Our application
development cycle is dynamic and fast moving. We needed a change
management solution equally dynamic and we found that with Aldon. We now
have total source code control, have eliminated redundancies and changes
to applications are faster and smoother."

Aldon's Smart Branching feature was a key driver for TRTG selecting Aldon.
It allows developers to work on different projects and components of an
application in parallel, all the while detecting and managing conflicting
changes. The sophisticated logic component with Aldon identifies
conflicts between versions while the graphical compare and merge tool
makes the merge simple. TRTG can now branch across platforms in a single
step or can branch multiple IDE projects simultaneously. This enables
rapid, concurrent development for TRTG and ensures that all work on an
application stays in sync.

Barnhart adds, "Because our developers know they can rely on Aldon Smart
Branching they can focus on creating innovative code instead of worrying
about where it goes or resetting IDEs."

With Aldon, TRTG also has gains a centralized business view to distributed
application inventories so the development team can automatically build,
organize and maintain a central inventory of all application components.
Users can easily access application components by their business function
and at various stages, across multiple environments and in conjunction
with multiple project teams. Also, management can obtain real-time
information about the status of any application, any project or any
object across the inventory.

Another key driver for TRTG selecting Aldon Lifecycle Manager was to
ensure the company applies a best-practices approach in the corporate
auditing process; involving both the IT and business units of the
company. The Aldon solution provides TRTG with a structured, repeatable
and auditable software development process so that requests and changes
to the IT team and business units are tracked at all times and there is a
precise documentation of workflow processes across the enterprise.

About Aldon

Aldon is the leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
solutions that brings the benefits of process-driven application change
management to IT, accelerating the delivery of mission-critical business
applications. Aldon ALM solutions support today's agile organizations by
enabling IT teams to greatly improve their products' time to market,
reduce business disruptions, achieve regulatory compliance and increase
return on investment. More than 1,300 companies, including 70 of the
Fortune 100, rely on Aldon ALM solutions for enterprise software
configuration and change management for their IT business processes.
Established in 1979, Aldon is headquartered in Emeryville, California and
maintains 16 offices worldwide serving more than 40 countries. For more
information, please visit www.aldon.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Info:
Sarah Johansen
Aldon
(510) 285-8503
sjohansen@aldon.com

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