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IT organizations spend billions of dollars a year on development life-cycle tools that don't play well together. The result? For most shops, application life-cycle management (ALM) — the coordination of development life-cycle activities — is still largely a manual process. Today's ALM suites don't offer much support for ALM beyond what can be accomplished through brittle tool-to-tool integrations. But tomorrow's ALM platforms will do much better by providing common services to practitioner tools. These solutions will be easier to implement, maintain, and employ. And at the end of the day, they'll enable development organizations to build better software.