Undoubtedly, developing and maintaining a software application throughout its lifecycle is a vital task. Recognizing patterns of failures and pain points is one of the main initiatives.It is because these procedures drive IT management to look at ALM and its evolutionary DevOps solution as a means of improving efficiencies in application development. Therefore, solutions that improve development and delivery of applications are valuable. According to Transparency Market Research, the global ALM Market revenue stood at USD 2.04 Billion in 2014 and is expected to reach USD 4.39 Billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 8.9 percent from 2015 to 2023.Major factors contributing to the growth of ALM market encompass continued growth in the digital economy, need for clear project status, need for better QA and project management apart from better team communication to create a cohesive, collaborative, more efficient organization.

With numerous expectations in ALM solutions, enterprise clients expect leading vendors to provide these solutions that can help connect disperse development, QA, project management, and marketing teams into cohesive units. Although there is no dearth of ALM Solution providers in India, but only those with deep domain expertise and customer insights are likely to survive and thrive. Cookie-cutter ALM solution vendors are in huge number these days, which is why enterprise clients should take notice when an innovative one offering unified and extended ALM solutions comes around.

Extended and Unified ALM solutions
With more than 25 years of presence in the industry, CollabNet has gained expertise in unifying and extending ALM solutions across the enterprise. The company does this through the combination of agile knowledge and functionality into a market leading enterprise class ALM platform with its extensions and integration points to DevOps. Over the years, CollabNet has gained deep domain expertise in Agile, ALM, and DevOps. As a result it can work with clients to understand their software development and delivery challenges and then bring about efficiency and improvements through a combination of training, services, and flexible enterprise scale software solutions.

TeamForge for Accelerating Application Delivery
CollabNet has developed TeamForge, which connects the diverse tools, processes, IP assets and people within a collaborative and highly flexible ALM/DevOps environment to enable a seamless software development and delivery process for distributed business. CollabNet TeamForge integrates software configuration management (SCM), continuous build and test, issue tracking, project management, lab management, and collaboration tools into a single Web-based application lifecycle management platform that empowers distributed teams to deliver great software. In addition, it centrally manages Agile, DevOps and open source tools at scale, along with agile consulting/training services to help organizations develop and deploy software faster. This creates more efficient organizations that deliver innovation quickly to the market, which benefits the entire enterprise.

Apart from open platform for application development, CollabNet’s TeamForge SCM give organizations the advantages of distributed (Git) or centralized (SVN or CVS) version control systems, while providing a better experience for developers and ensuring compliance. TeamForge SCM provides market leading features and functionality regardless of the version control system being used, be that Git or Subversion, from a single unifying platform. This gives developers flexibility, choice, and better Role based access control.

Better Networking through CollabNet TeamForge
CollabNet assisted Philips Medical Systems, a division of Royal Philips Electronics in improving communication and collaboration across teams and to more efficiently manage projects. Earlier, collaboration and communication across multiple teams was challenging and there was a lack of flexibility in patching platform components when required. As there was a lack of common development platform, different teams reported different business lines and they all had different priorities and schedules. To address the above challenges, Philips Medical Systems launched an initiative to introduce open source principles into its internal software development efforts and selected CollabNet TeamForge as the basis for its collaborative software development infrastructure. By standardizing its software development infrastructure on TeamForge, Philips has increased development efficiencies, created synergy between end products, improved quality and reliability, and decreased time to market. “Software plays an increasingly important role at Philips Medical Systems, product development and, therefore, security and availability are critical. CollabNet’s managed service provides better security and availability than Philips’ internal engineering support groups can at the same cost level,” said Jan Broekhuizen, Program Manager, and Medical Imaging Platform at Philips Medical Systems.