Pivotal Labs was an

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headquartered in

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. The company developed Pivotal Tracker workflow software. It was a division of

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History

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

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. In October 2013, Pivotal acquired Toronto-based Xtreme Labs, a mobile app development company. Xtreme Labs' clients included

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and Groupon. In December 2019, Pivotal Labs was acquired by VMware and renamed VMware Tanzu Labs.

Products and Services

The company will use

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

References

External links

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Pivotal Tracker site

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on

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