The Creators - Jama Software

Jama Software was founded by seasoned project managers frustrated with expensive, cumbersome legacy tools that team members refused to use. Unable to find a web-based solution offering the depth required for enterprise class product development, Jama was born. Jama is a privately held corporation based in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Working for you - Jama Europe

Jama Europe is your local contact. We are working for you as if the team from Jama HQ were here themselves from across the pond.

Jama Europe is operated by Xeau with exclusive license from Jama Software. We joined forces with Jama during Contour’s early development and together launched Contour in Europe in 2007. Since then Contours development has gone from strength to strength and Xeau enjoy a close relationship with Jama, working as an extension of the family brand, rather than just as partner. We take pride in delivering the same high levels of service which companies come to know from Jama directly. Xeau is headquartered in the UK.

We know Requirements Management

Since 2002, Xeau has been the company of choice for many vendors seeking a dedicated specialist software partner in Europe. Our business model provides increased exposure and a presence in Europe for emerging companies with appealing solutions, which offer our clients greater choice and better value for their investments in software.

Xeau brings together a wealth of knowledge in the Requirements Management arena from experiences had with main stream vendors such as IBM/Rational, Borland, Compuware and Telelogic. Xeau now work exclusively with Jama Software providing localised operations for Contour including sales & marketing, end-user technical support and a range of services for all Contour users right across Europe.

Welcome to our world - welcome to Jama in Europe.

Open Platforms

Together, we believe open standards are important. Companies should be able to assemble best of breed software tools for their unique needs and configure those packages to work together. We've built Contour with that belief in mind. Contour runs on most platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux etc), utilising commonly preferred application technologies such as MySQL and Application Server Apache Tomcat. Contour however, is not restricted to these two favoured technologies. Contour uses standard CSS for look and feel, can change terminology or language and connects to other systems on many different levels.

The Future

Contour is a customer driven product with our development roadmap created directly from customer feedback and input. Some of our best features have come from customer requests. The whole team takes pride in our rapid release cycle and customers appreciate seeing feature requests rolled out in a matter of weeks or months - not years.