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Application lifecycle market analysisProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Ovum Plc Published: January 2007 Product Code: R464-295 Description In the two years since we last updated the application lifecycle market analysis much of what we predicted has come to pass. There has been a steady market consolidation within the vendor community, especially within the management space, driven by the need to provide greater control and insight into the delivery process. The desire for the concept of services and service orientation as a means of delivering a loosely connected flexible architecture has been made more attainable, allowing different technologies to integrate and work more easily together, catering for change, and agility and promoting a more functional-based interaction. It has done so through the advent of web services standards, the simplicity of the core technology and the cross community and industry support the technology and the standards have received. As a result, there has been a rise in purveyors of ‘service-oriented’ applications, approaches, management and infrastructure, which have been aligned with the application lifecycle framework, driving further consolidation in the market. Predictability, quality, risk assessment and management and cost efficiencies are still big drivers for many organisations. However, there is also renewed focus on, and a greater urgency for, business-aligned IT management, process control and innovation, both within the end user community and providers of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions. Table of Contents Key messagesMarket overview Market pressures: cost, risk and business innovation - empowering themes that remain true today Management over substance… but there are benefits SIs are the new power brokers in ALM Evidence of a more receptive end-user audience for ALM… …but vendors are still too focused internally Broader focus for application lifecycle ALM reality - best of times, worst of times The make up of ALM support Engineering discipline over art - a separation of concerns Application lifecycle tools play in other areas such as BPM and application integration Vendors are driving discipline into the application lifecycle and taking a leadership role Vendor-supported collaboration - a step in the right direction Vendors cannot afford to be complacent about support from the business Eclipse and Visual Studio have grown to dominate the IDE market The demand for pricing models that support enterprise-wide development solutions |
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