The Leading Vendors in the Application Development Market (Competitor Focus):

The Leading Vendors in the Application Development Market (Competitor Focus)

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: October 2007
Product Code: R313-26587

Description

Introduction

The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) market is in the middle of consolidation and vendor offerings exhibit a high degree of feature equivalence. Consequently, few vendors consistently occupy market leader positions, with a host of competitors in close trail. Still in throes of change, the ALM market has a fair share of specialist vendors capable of leading their respective niches.

Scope

Technology: an assessment of vendors' technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features. User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of vendors based on a survey of over 210 ALM IT managers. Market impact: measures vendors' market impact based on their revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

IBM leads the market in technology ratings by a large margin, followed by Borland and Microsoft. Specialist vendor Compuware and emerging player MKS also perform very well on the technology dimension. HP leads the market in terms of end user sentiment, closely followed by IBM and Microsoft in that order. CA and Borland both score very well but have room for improvement on the user perception and recognition. Microsoft has the highest market impact in the ALM space, followed by Borland and IBM. CA and Aldon also command an impressive market impact rating, owing to differing strategies of specialist focus and R&D reinvestment respectively.

Reasons to Purchase

Gain detailed knowledge of ALM vendors' strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact. Find out which vendors are the leaders in each assessment category and benchmark your own performance against them. Examine the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors in order to develop a more informed competitive strategy.

Table of Contents

DATAMONITOR VIEW: CATALYST; SUMMARY
TECHNOLOGY DEFINITIONS: Project Portfolio Management (PPM); Requirements Management (RM); Change and Configuration Management (CCM); Model-driven Development (MDD); Build, Deploy and Release Management (BRM); Test Management (TM); Application Performance Management (APM)
MARKET LEADERS: Market Leaders: Technology; Market Leaders: User Sentiment; Market Leaders: Impact
APPENDIX: Summary scores; Extended Methodology; Technology; User Sentiment; Market Impact; Methodology; Further reading; Ask the analyst; Datamonitor consulting; Disclaimer
List of Tables: Table 1: ALM Decision Matrix - vendor scores summary
List of Figures: Figure 1: Market Leaders analysis: Technology; Figure 2: Market Leaders analysis: user sentiment; Figure 3: Market Leaders analysis: market impact

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