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Six Steps IT Ops Can Take To Build A Tighter Relationship With Development Groups
As IT organizations struggle to deal with the changing IT and business landscapes, the concept of DevOps (development + operations = DevOps) has been singled out by many as the way in which...

Over the past three years, respondents to Forrester's annual Enterprise And SMB Software Survey have demonstrated increasing awareness and adoption of application life-cycle management (ALM)...
Over the past three years, Forrester's annual Enterprise And SMB Software Survey has shown increasing awareness and adoption of application life-cycle management (ALM) processes and tools. ALM 2.0...
Because airlines face intense competitive pressure, their application development organizations have to be able to change gears quickly. To this end, one US airline's application development group...
The merits of integrating software change and configuration management (SCCM) are well established. But for many shops, standardizing on a single SCCM solution is more an ideal than a reality. These...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Subversion is a viable standalone software configuration management (SCM) solution and is appropriate for enterprise usage. Like AccuRev, Perforce, and Serena PVCS Version Manager, Subversion is more...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Serena Dimensions CM has changed more than any other software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution since our 2005 evaluation, now boasting a single repository; a better install...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Telelogic Synergy Suite offers the most seamless integration of change and configuration management around, as well as exceptionally strong capabilities in both areas. But Telelogic is a rare bird in...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
AccuRev is a relatively new product in the software change and configuration management (SCCM) space. As such, it lacks some features that are common among its competitors, especially in the areas of...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
In this evaluation, as in our 2005 evaluation, IBM proves to have the best unified software change and configuration management (SCCM) capabilities. Its strengths include platform support,...
IBM Is The Unified SCCM Front-Runner, Subversion Leads On Standalone SCM
Software change and configuration management (SCCM) solutions permit IT organizations to manage the changes that they make to software during development and maintenance. Forrester's product-based...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
The core of MKS's application life-cycle management (ALM) platform is its software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution, MKS Integrity. In recent years, MKS has begun building on top...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
In terms of bang for the buck, Perforce is bested only by the open source Subversion, and its current offerings score compares favorably to that of solutions that cost nearly 10 times as much....
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Borland StarTeam is a well-rounded software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution that is easy to use and administer. It is notable for its scalability across geographic locations: One...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
The most differentiating feature about CA's software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution is not CA Harvest itself but Harvest's integrations with other CA solutions. Since Forrester's...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Microsoft Team Foundation Server is just a year old, but it's mature beyond its years. In our 2005 evaluation, Team Foundation Server was in Beta 3, but since then, Microsoft has improved the product...