Microsoft: software development and delivery has never had it so good

Publication Date	October 2007
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	17
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00394

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Summary

Once very much the poor and very dull relation of the IT family, the last 24 months has seen much-needed focus on the software development and delivery process, especially in relation to successfully managing the wider and more strategic application lifecycle. This looks set to continue as organisations both large and small finally realise that business success, innovation and operational excellence underpinned by IT have deep roots in the effectiveness of the application delivery process.

We are entering a new and more enlightened era for software development, delivery and operations, but how much is this big push down to Microsoft, one of the perceived leaders in this space? Is Microsoft truly delivering the goods for its customers, its community and the industry as a whole?

Content

A busy past 24 months... so far so good
Focus and delivery are the fault lines
The future trends for IT delivery teams
From development to design: the rise of rich client and browser development
Making the software delivery process more relevant to the business and the rest of the IT organisation
From single to parallel: the rise of multi-core development
Developer and development evolution aided by Microsoft
Developing code versus abstraction and assembly
Reaching out to SMEs and individual developers
Addressing the code size, hardware processor and memory dependency cycle
Better tools in the long run, but has Microsoft gone far enough?
Microsoft's dilemma with client technology
Opening up opportunities to maximise its portfolio
Opening up to the community and its ecosystem
Attesting to Microsoft's 'open' credentials
Facing up to open source
Words of wisdom to IT organisations from Microsoft