Pivotal Labs

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Pivotal Labs
Company typeDivision of VMware
Industry Software development
Founded1989
Headquarters San Francisco, California
ProductsPivotal Tracker
Website tanzu.vmware.com/labs
Engineers pairing at Pivotal Labs Pivotal Labs.png
Engineers pairing at Pivotal Labs

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.

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History

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

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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