Decision Matrix: Selecting an Application Lifecycle Vendor (Competitor Focus)

This report provides a summary of the capabilities of leading Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) vendors based on a quantitative assessment of their market impact and end user sentiment, as well as an objective assessment of the technology features they offer. Datamonitor also provides vendor selection guidance for enterprises looking to deploy ALM solutions.

Report Highlights
The ALM market is very competitive and vendor offerings exhibit a high degree of feature equivalence. Consequently, few vendors consistently occupy market leadership positions, with a host of competitors in close trail.

IBM leads the market by an impressive margin with its comprehensive ALM portfolio, a positive user sentiment and a deep market impact. Borland and Microsoft both offer very strong ALM solutions, garnering a positive customer sentiment and recognition as market leaders alongside IBM.

Compuware, HP, MKS and Serena emerge as the challengers. They all need to boost ALM portfolio breadth as they currently compete as specialists across a few component areas of ALM domain. Aldon, Polarion, Rally and TechExcel have impressive offerings, and are expected to gain wider recognition as they augment their installed bases.
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DATAMONITOR VIEW 1
CATALYST 1
SUMMARY 1
MARKET DEVELOPMENTS 2
The ALM domain has evolved significantly across conceptual and functional dimensions 2
Quality and value for money propositions emerge as the most important evaluation criteria 3
ALM Decision Matrix 4
Market leaders: IBM, Microsoft and Borland 5
The challengers: Compuware, MKS, HP and Serena 5
MARKET LEADERS 7
Market leaders: technology 7
Market leaders: user sentiment 10
Market leaders: impact 11
VENDOR ANALYSIS 13
Aldon: ALM radars 13
Recommendation: explore 14
Borland: ALM radars 15
Recommendation: shortlist 16
Compuware: ALM radars 17
Recommendation: consider 18
HP: ALM radars 19
Recommendation: consider 20
IBM: ALM radars 21
Recommendation: shortlist 22
Microsoft: ALM radars 23
Recommendation: shortlist 24
MKS: ALM radars 25
Recommendation: consider 26
Serena: ALM radars 27
Recommendation: consider 28
Polarion: ALM radars 29
Recommendation: explore 30
Rally: ALM radars 31
Recommendation: explore 32
TechExcel: ALM radars 33
Recommendation: explore 34
APPENDIX 35
Summary scores 35
Datamonitor Ratings 35
Methodology 36
Extended Methodology 36
Technology 36
User sentiment 38
Market impact 38
Further reading 39
Ask the analyst 39
Datamonitor consulting 39
Disclaimer 39
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Table 1: ALM Decision Matrix* 4
Table 2: ALM Decision Matrix - vendor scores summary 35
Figure 1: Selection criteria rated as ""Very Important"", percentage of respondents 3
Figure 2: ALM Decision Matrix* 4
Figure 3: Market leaders analysis: Technology (suite architecture) 7
Figure 4: Market leaders analysis: Technology (suite components) 8
Figure 5: Market leaders analysis: user sentiment 10
Figure 6: Market leaders analysis: market impact 11
Figure 7: Aldon ALM radars 13
Figure 8: Aldon component radar 14
Figure 9: Borland ALM radars 15
Figure 10: Borland component radar 16
Figure 11: Compuware ALM radars 17
Figure 12: Compuware component radar 18
Figure 13: HP ALM radars 19
Figure 14: HP component radar 20
Figure 15: IBM ALM radars 21
Figure 16: IBM component radar 22
Figure 17: Microsoft ALM radars 23
Figure 18: Microsoft component radar 24
Figure 19: MKS ALM radars 25
Figure 20: MKS component radar 26
Figure 21: Serena ALM radars 27
Figure 22: Serena component radar 28
Figure 23: Polarion ALM radars 29
Figure 24: Polarion component radar 30
Figure 25: Rally ALM radars 31
Figure 26: Rally component radar 32
Figure 27: TechExcel ALM radars 33
Figure 28: TechExcel component radar 34
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