UPPSALA, Sweden, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Hansoft, the leading vendor of tools for project management and QA in the
game development industry, will officially launch Hansoft 5.3 during GDC in
San Francisco next week.

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Hansoft 5.3 contains a number of improvements. One of the most
significant is the asset pipeline tool, a feature many developers have been
waiting for.

"We have had in-depth discussions with studios for quite some time on how
to take the heavy manual work out of managing asset pipelines. Many teams are
also experiencing that it's hard to combine an agile process like scrum with
the linear nature of asset creation. This became a large and very exiting
research project on our side and we are now releasing Hansoft 5.3 where art
pipelines can be created in parallel with sign-off workflows to make asset
creation more lean," said Hans Andersson, Development Director at Hansoft.

Developers in over 20 countries are using Hansoft for collaborative
scheduling, agile, bug tracking and workload coordination. Hansoft is also
used on multi site projects, to keep close contacts and daily discussions
between teams, even though the geographical distance may be large.

"Every day we get large amounts of great feedback from clients that we
use to continuously make improvements of Hansoft. Some updates are small but
significant for the everyday user experience and some are large. Like the new
report generator. That was originally based on feedback from QA managers that
wanted the reporting in the bug database part of Hansoft to be more
powerful," said Hans Andersson.

New features in Hansoft 5.3:
    -- Asset pipeline tool that can manage complex, parallel, and nested 
       flows of art creation in both agile and scheduling projects.
    -- Workflows tool to edit and apply a workflow on any kind of item in
       Hansoft. Use it for art sign off, quality iterations or user story 
       testing.
    -- New report generator. Create and share reports with co-workers using
       Hansoft's visual query builder, new query language and grouping
       functionality.
    -- Updated integration SDK. Access and use pipelines, workflows and
       reports in a simple manner in the SDK. This enables advanced 
       integration with asset management systems as well as making it easier 
       to integrate Hansoft with external report systems such as executive 
       dashboards and business intelligence tools.
    -- Many improvements on the agile and QA feature sets in Hansoft to make
       everyday usage of Hansoft even smoother.
    -- Performance enhancements. Less time to synchronize when you connect to
       the Hansoft server. Handling a large number of documents over global
       distances is faster.

About Hansoft

Hansoft is an integrated solution for collaborative scheduling, Agile,
bug tracking, workload coordination, and document management, used by
developers in more than 20 countries. The tool is fast and easy and builds on
principles of team empowerment, increased communication, transparency, and
collaboration. New Hansoft 5.3 also includes an Asset Pipeline Editor to
manage complex art creation flows, a Workflow Editor for testing, quality
iteration and management sign-offs, as well as a new flow-based Report
Generator. www.hansoft.se.

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