Market Mover Array™ Report: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Today we view the application lifecycle as both the business of software and a market complete with solutions and services from a variety of vendors. Understanding the business of software is critical for all organizations to ensure that the software that runs the business fulfills the brand promise.

This Market Mover Array^TM report focuses on where the ALM market is moving. Instead of looking at the past, we will focus on the future and explore vendors’ innovation and technology as well as their marketing ability.

Read detailed analysis about about the following Market Movers:

• HP — defining and expanding the application lifecycle and the necessary link to the line of business
• IBM — providing a comprehensive lifecycle solution for enterprise IT and systems software solutions
• Microsoft — organically creating a lifecycle solution for a heterogeneous environment
• MKS — delivering lifecycle solutions for product engineering teams and IT organizations
• ThoughtWorks Studios — focusing on making the application lifecycle attainable by all organizations
• TOMOS — delivering a lightweight and modern cloud solution for the application lifecycle
• Wind River — delivering a lifecycle solution for software engineering teams of embedded, device, and systems software

Solution Snapshot Reports

Read voke's analysis on specific products and solutions:

• Parasoft Virtualize
• Application Modernization: An HP Strategic Initiative
• HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

Market Mover Array™ Report: Testing Platforms

Software has expanded its reach to become responsible for business processes, consumer purchases, transportation, communications, and devices that are always on and, in some cases, life-critical. The stakes of making sure that proper testing occurs at all levels are greater than ever. Testing is a comprehensive and critical part of the entire lifecycle. Today’s business executive must be able to guarantee working software free of defects to avoid compromising business, safety, or security.

This Market Mover Array™ report examines the history of the testing market and analyzes the vendors vying to move the market beyond the status quo.

Read detailed analysis about about the following Market Movers: 

• HP and IBM – market share leaders with comprehensive solutions and professional services
• Microsoft and Replay Solutions – delivering innovative game-changing solutions using the power of virtualization
• Coverity, Electric Cloud, and Klocwork – extending essential innovation beyond the test team
• Fanfare – offering a testing platform for embedded systems and device software
• MKS – delivering a collaborative test management environment as part of a comprehensive platform for product engineering and software development
• QMetry and TOMOS – delivering lightweight cloud alternatives for testing
• Micro Focus and Original Software – challengers to the traditional testing vendors

This report is now available in a special bundle.

Watch the What Tool Should I Buy Webcast Series on Testing Platforms

Learn why voke believes this is one of the most exciting times in the testing market.  Watch this exclusive, on-demand webcast series at your own pace featuring voke and leading testing vendors, including:  Coverity, Electric Cloud, HP, Microsoft, and QMetry.

2009 voke Innovators

voke recognizes the following companies for innovation in the Application Lifecycle market:

• Black Duck Software for helping developers use open source code
• Electric Cloud for delivering productivity through software production management
• HP Security Center for delivering security to the application lifecycle
• Microsoft Expression Studio for helping to make applications usable
• Replay Solutions for helping eradicate elusive defects
• RTTS for delivering quality in software
• Streamstep for helping take control of IT's checklists
• and more

Companies to Watch

• Appica enters US market. Read voke's comments in Network Computing.
• HP Launches IT Performance Suite.  Read voke's comments in eWeek.
• Citrix announces intent to acquire VMLogix.  Read voke's blog post or login to read voke's First Impressions of this announcement.
• HP announces intent to acquire Fortify Software.  Read voke's blog post or login to read voke's First Impressions of this announcement.
• Microsoft announces the release of Lab Management.  Watch the video featuring voke's Theresa Lanowitz from Visual Studio Live!
• HP announces LoadRunner in the Cloud!
• Check out Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with Virtual Lab Management: read voke's Solution Snapshot report today.
• Citrix, CloudShare, and VMLogix present on voke's webcast channel discussing How to Justify the Purchase of Virtual Lab solutions.
• Coverity discusses Toyota on CNBC and calls a halt to unsafe software.
• Replay Solutions offers cloud solution.