TCS launches major release of Enterprise Agile tool – Jile 5.0

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched Jile 5.0, a major release of its on-the-cloud SaaS-based Enterprise Agile planning and delivery tool that helps enterprises in addressing the large-scale development requirements of multiple distributed teams.

According to TCS, with improved Agile portfolio capabilities and Lean portfolio budgeting, Jile facilitates better collaboration and expedites value creation.

Jile 5.0 is said to enable organizations to better-aligning execution with strategy by offering a unified view of portfolios and programs, thereby helping business stakeholders and teams to effectively collaborate, and accelerating time-to-market for new software.

Via its Lean portfolio budgeting, Jile helps business stakeholders further in making informed investment decisions to meet targeted business goals.

TCS launches major release of Enterprise Agile tool – Jile 5.0. Photo courtesy of Naveen.kumar.kotta/Wikipedia.org.

Jile 5.0 is available in two editions – a Standard edition to cater to medium and large enterprises that are starting to scale agile practices to various team-of-teams. The second is an Enterprise edition designed for large enterprises having mature agile practices and want agility at the business layer.

Apart from the features available in the Standard edition, the Enterprise edition enables teams to monitor budget allocation versus consumption along with portfolio, program, and team performance with the help of tailored dashboards.

Durga Maruwada – Business Head, Jile, TCS, said: “With its intuitive user interface, Jile is easy to learn and enables our customers to embrace industry-proven Agile methods and frameworks across the enterprise and accelerate their growth and transformation journeys.

“The new release of Jile comes in two editions catering to the needs of organizations at different maturity levels, and helps customers manage their portfolios better to align execution with strategy.”