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Borland acquisition the big news in ALM for 2010


By Jeff Feinman
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December 30, 2009 —  One of the biggest stories in the ALM market this year was the consumption of a long-time life-cycle management staple.

Borland Software, which for years had a string of questionable executive decisions and a frequently changing message, was bought by legacy modernization company Micro Focus for approximately US$75 million in May. Industry experts said that while Micro Focus would serve as a good home for Borland’s ALM products, Borland’s best software development products were sold off to Embarcadero in the summer of 2008. There will be many people in the industry watching how Micro Focus fares in the software development market in the years to come.

Aside from the Borland acquisition, most other ALM companies continued to update software and do what they could under uncertain economic conditions. CollabNet changed the name of its SourceForge collaboration software to TeamForge in order to reflect larger portions of software being created by distributed teams. The company then introduced dynamic planning into TeamForge, a feature that lets development teams manage their agile projects in one user interface.

Electric Cloud integrated its ElectricCommander build tester and ElectricAccelerator parallel building software with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud environment, opening the cloud to development and test teams. Electric Cloud also added language localization, multiple time zone scheduling options, and the ability to do continuous integration in a new version of ElectricCommander.

One of Kovair Software’s big actions in 2009 was a redesign of the UI for its flagship product, Kovair Global Lifecycle. The company also released software-as-a-service versions of its ALM products earlier in the year.

MKS, meanwhile, upgraded its Integrity 2009 platform with new reporting capabilities and dashboards that can be tailored to specific roles.

Rally Software acquired 6th Sense Analytics, a provider of on-demand metrics products. Rally executives said the acquisition provides Rally customers with more access to project data, and it improves agile development reporting.

Adding an open API to its Surround SCM 2010 software configuration manager was a main objective for Seapine Software, as the company added an API for writing applications that access branches and repositories on the Surround SCM Server. Seapine’s TestTrack application testing product line brought in the new TestTrack RM requirements manager.

Serena Software continued to push into business process management, adding LDAP integration and new administration capabilities to its Business Mashups software. The company also released a software-as-a-service agile development product with Agile On Demand.

Urbancode, meanwhile, added new command-line features and integrations with source code analyzers to its AnthillPro continuous integration software.




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12/30/2009 12:19:59 PM EST

Nice 2009 re-cap, Jeff. And zAgile (www.zAgile.com) launched zAgile Teamwork, for contextual integration of any ALM tools, first including Atlassian Confluence and JIRA, as well as Subversion, CruiseControl, and Salesforce. For example, for the first time, teams can have semi-structured content in their enterprise wiki, such as Requirements and Test Cases, tightly integrated with other aspects of software engineering. And precise information can be easily found across the whole software engineering environemnt with "smart search." I think you covered the bases well in March http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33321 Stay tuned as we release some significant case studies in the coming weeks.

United StatesAndrew Lampitt


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