The Leading Vendors In The Application Development Market (Competitor Focus)

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.