Pivotal Labs (now VMware Tanzu Labs) was an agile software development consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company developed Pivotal Tracker workflow software. It was a division of Pivotal Software.

Pivotal Labs
Company typeDivision of VMware
IndustrySoftware development
Founded1989
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
ProductsPivotal Tracker
Websitetanzu.vmware.com/labs
Engineers pairing at Pivotal Labs

History edit

The company was founded in 1989 by Rob Mee and Sherry Erskine.[1] In 2008 Pivotal Labs released Pivotal Tracker, which was used as their internal project management and collaboration software.[citation needed] EMC acquired Pivotal Labs, and in March 2013, Pivotal Software was formed after spinning out of EMC and VMware.[2]

In October 2013, Pivotal acquired Toronto-based Xtreme Labs, a mobile app development company.[3] Xtreme Labs' clients included Microsoft and Groupon.[4]

In December 2019, Pivotal Labs was acquired by VMware and renamed VMware Tanzu Labs.[5] [6]

Products and Services edit

The company will use pair programming while doing its software development and also consults to other companies to help them use the method.[2] The company has provided consulting programming for several large technology companies in San Francisco.[7]

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References edit

  1. ^ "Pivotal Labs Team". Pivotal Labs.
  2. ^ a b Metz, Cade (2013-11-12). "This Company Believes You Should Never Hack Alone". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  3. ^ Swisher, Kara. "In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash". AllThingsD.com. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  4. ^ Farr, Christina (2013-10-02). "Pivotal buys elite mobile development shop Xtreme Labs". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  5. ^ Miller, Ron (30 December 2019). "VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition". TechCrunch. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  6. ^ "VMware Tanzu Labs: New Name, Even More Transformative Expertise". VMware Tanzu. 2021-01-13.
  7. ^ "Twitter brings in big guns from Pivotal Labs to help rebuild its troubled infrastructure". VentureBeat. 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2019-02-28.

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