Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Vision
Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Software Delivery
Our world increasingly depends on software. But, the increasing complexity of the software process – due to offshoring/outsourcing, technology complexity, compliance mandates and changing business requirements - make reliable delivery of high-quality software a struggle.
Borland believes every CIO and IT organization deserve the infrastructure that empowers them to advance their software delivery process by making it measurable, predictable and improvable, just like any other critical business process. And, we fight for the rights of our customers who are passionate about driving the next generation of software productivity on their terms.
This is our singular focus.
Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Borland today offers solutions that support the critical ALM processes involved in successful software delivery:
Borland’s vision for Open ALM recognizes customers’ need to define, manage and measure their software delivery processes based on their own unique needs. Open implies flexibility and customer choice:
- Any Process: The value of ALM tools is in their ability to automate key processes in software delivery. Open ALM supports the customer’s established processes, whether waterfall, Agile, RUP or custom.
- Any Tools: Open ALM enables customers to use any combination of lifecycle tools – commercial and open-source – that they choose, while providing visibility and traceability of assets and activities across them and the phases they support. Their existing investments in tools and practices should be easily incorporated into an overall solution, regardless of vendor origin.
- Platform Agnostic: The majority of enterprises have a degree of technology heterogeneity. Open ALM supports organizations deploying applications to a broad range of platforms.
- Metrics and Measurement: You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Open ALM works to automate third-party data collection to drive cross-process software delivery metrics and measurement.
Open ALM Product Strategy – Process-Driven Integration
Process-driven integration – the ability for tools to work together and to share digital assets in a way that best supports a customer’s specific software delivery process – is at the heart of Borland’s product strategy. Borland’s vision for Open ALM is to enable customers to automate existing processes through the integration of any combination of lifecycle tools, while providing a management layer that offers unified metrics and reporting.
“Tomorrow’s ALM is a platform for the coordination and management of development activities, not a collection of life-cycle tools with locked-in and limited ALM features. Borland has worked long and hard to improve the integration among its own tools and with 3rd-party tools. Its ongoing strategy makes it easier for customers to implement, maintain, and employ ALM automation technologies. That’s aligned with the shifts we see as necessary for improving the productivity of software organizations.”
Carey Schwaber, senior analyst
Forrester Research
