Compuware is one of the leading APM vendors, having consolidated its position with its acquisition Gomez in October 2009. The vendor now has a performance-management portfolio that covers enterprise environments (application servers, middleware servers, Java and .NET environments, mainframe environments, database servers, networks, and proprietary and custom business applications) as well as the Internet. This facilitates end-to-end visibility into application performance. The vendor has shown its intent…
Technology Audits - published 23/08/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
Global 360’s Process360 BPM is closely aligned to the Microsoft technology stack and, hence, a good fit for organizations that are essentially Microsoft shops. The solution has been built on the .NET platform and is only supported on Microsoft operating systems. Process360 leans heavily towards document and content management. The solution aims to co-opt tasks, documents, and people into its process model. A key aspect of the solution is its role-based visual end-user applications, which are specially de…
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Mike Thompson
The high acquisition cost of proprietary BPM solutions makes them inaccessible to many organizations. The licensing cost is a barrier, and the recurring software maintenance/technical support costs may be too high for enterprises as well. A relatively routine BPM deployment can cost a company anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million, with annual support costs in the range of $40,000 to $150,000. In Ovum’s view, for BPM to penetrate all segments of the market, there is a need for products that offer essential…
The requirements definition and management (RDM) market is currently an active space to watch, particularly when viewed in the context of the broader application lifecycle management (ALM) market, which is populated with over a dozen key vendors including major players such as HP, IBM, and Microsoft. The software development landscape is shifting towards Agile development practices and moving away from the traditional waterfall development model; thus we see many new players in the ALM space, addressing …
Technology Audits - published 08/06/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff, Sandeep Mishra
Software change and configuration management (SCCM) processes are inextricably linked to the business of software development, insofar as even the smallest of development shops require and have deployed SCCM tools in their environments. The ability to effectively manage change across the development lifecycle has a significant impact on the outcome of development projects. AccuRev SCM can offer:
Technology Audits - published 27/05/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
ThoughtWorks Studios provides the Adaptive ALM product suite. It is a holistic Agile ALM offering that addresses all aspects of Agile software development. ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM comprises the products Mingle, Cruise, and Twist. Mingle is an Agile project management solution, Cruise offers build, configuration and release management functionality, and Twist provides test automation capabilities. These individual products are all organically built and available collectively or as stand-alone solutions....
Technology Audits - published 05/05/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
Bahwan CyberTek’s Cuecent BPM is a full-featured BPM platform suitable for high-availability, high-performance scenarios. It comprises several modules: Cuecent BPMN modeler, Cuecent ESB, Cuecent e-Business Process Automation and Collaboration (ebPAC), Cuecent Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Cuecent Forms Designer, and Cuecent BRE. The ebPAC module is an XPDL-compliant workflow engine for orchestrating and executing process instances, and there is high-availability functionality built into the platfor…
Technology Audits - published 22/03/2010 - Chandranshu Singh
Jaspersoft provides a broad range of BI capabilities, including reporting, in-memory or OLAP-based multi-dimensional analysis, dashboards, and data integration. It comprises the JasperAnalysis OLAP server, the JasperETL extract-transform-load (ETL) tool, the JasperServer interactive and managed reporting server, the JasperReports reporting library, and the iReport graphical report designer. All of these are underpinned by a BI platform that provides support for security and administration, and supports o…
Technology Audits - published 05/03/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Helena Schwenk
Talend Integration Suite is an enterprise data-integration application that extends the capabilities of the vendor’s open-source product Talend Open Studio. Talend Integration Suite is sold on a subscription licence basis but shares a number of components with Open Studio such as its design studio and the code-generation engine that generates Java and Perl code and native SQL for the source/target platform. Included in the subscription for Talend Integration Suite are additional features such as administ…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
Original Software provides Qualify, an application quality management solution that adapts to the way QA teams work and helps centralise the software quality and quality management processes within an organisation. Qualify is currently in version 1.5. The product takes a holistic view of the software quality lifecycle, covering requirements management, resource and task planning, scheduling, automated test execution, manual test monitoring, defect and issue management, and reporting. The product also off…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
CollabNet TeamForge is a Web-based application-lifecycle management (ALM) platform suited to globally distributed development activities. Key functionality includes project management, Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) through the embedded CollabNet Subversion, and defect management. TeamForge integrates with the Hudson open-source platform for Web-based build and test-management functionality. CollabNet also offers an optional separately priced module for lab management in virtual and …
Technology Audits - published 26/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
IBM Rational’s Rational Quality Management suite contains products to manage all aspects of software quality management. The solution set includes products for centralised test management, test lab management for physical as well as virtual environments, test data management, functional testing automation, performance testing automation, Web Services and SOA testing automation, dynamic source code analysis, and embedded systems testing. Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Functional Tester, and Rati…
Technology Audits - published 21/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
TIBCO provides a comprehensive range of products for service-oriented architecture (SOA) enablement. ActiveMatrix v2.2 is a lightweight and highly modular offering, which, in Ovum’s view, can help organisations of any size to increase the time to value of deploying a SOA approach. Ovum considers the comprehensive range of capabilities a particular strength of ActiveMatrix, and we believe the Service Grid solution enables organisations to plan and perform the migration of legacy applications to the SOA pl…
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Roy Illsley
Pentaho BI suite Enterprise Edition offers end-to-end business intelligence functionality including reporting, dashboards, data integration, data analysis, and data mining, encapsulated into loosely coupled modules linked together by the Pentaho BI platform. The Enterprise Edition BI server provides administration, user authentication, security, application diagnostics, and performance monitoring in addition to the core capabilities of the open-source platform. Pentaho’s Analysis module is based on Mondr…
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Sarah Burnett
Data Protector is an enterprise data backup and recovery solution from HP that works with both physical and virtual data centres. It is suitable for large as well as small and medium-sized organisations (SMEs), and fits easily into existing IT environments due to its high degree of interoperability with IT platform vendors. The product offers multiple methods of protection for VMware environments, and works best with HP storage hardware. It offers virtual full backups and data de-duplication, which reduc…
Technology Audits - published 15/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Sue Clarke
Green Hat provides GH Tester, a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) lifecycle quality-management toolset that performs code-free end-to-end testing for complex and heterogeneous SOA and Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) deployments. GH Tester automates the visualisation, verification, and virtualisation of unit, functional, regression, system, simulation, performance, and integration testing, as well as production performance-monitoring, and is suitable for automating testing in Agile processes. …
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
Kapow Web Data Server from Kapow Technologies is a product that automates the extraction of, and enterprise access to, Web data. With so much useful data and intelligence residing on the Web, organisations are compelled to make use of it as best they can. Kapow Web Data Server, which is currently in its seventh iteration, offers a codeless visual development environment for the creation of custom data extraction and integration components that run on a Java-based server. Automation components known as Ka…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
Omniscope, by Visokio, is an end-user tool for data visualisation, analysis, reporting, and information publishing. It enables business users to analyse enterprise data without the need for heavy involvement from SQL-savvy business analysts or the IT department. Omniscope picks up where tools like spreadsheets leave off, by offering 16 different data views, auto-refresh of data sets, and automated multi-tab report/presentation distribution. The product provides comprehensive analysis and visualisation ca…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Richard Edwards
Adobe Flex version 4.0 is a framework for developing rich internet applications (RIAs) based on the Flash Player. The development framework can lower costs and shorten time to market by enabling applications to be deployed identically across a variety of platforms and browsers. Flex comprises an open source software development kit that provides a compiler, a code debugger, the development languages MXML and ActionScript 3.0, and a component library. Separately licensable components are Flash Builder 4, …
Technology Audits - published 20/11/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
The Zeus Traffic ManagerTM provides network infrastructure administrators with a solution for managing network traffic by providing control at the application level. Zeus also retains its original business in high-performance Web servers. Zeus Traffic Manager discerns between applications by inspecting the data packets being routed, allowing advanced network solutions for SLAs and business rules. The product can sense the total traffic related to any particular application and manage routing automaticall…
Technology Audits - published 29/10/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
eoLogic’s eoSense is a dynamic application architecture analyser for Java Enterprise Edition environments that helps uncover architectural issues likely to cause application failure during load testing or in production environments that could lower the cost of quality over the development lifecycle. The solution supports various commonly used Java EE frameworks and also provides a best-practice-based knowledge base for addressing the issues identified during the analysis phase. eoSense comprises a client…
Technology Audits - published 20/10/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
Axceler ControlPoint is an administration utility for the Microsoft SharePoint platform that aims to enable SharePoint customers to enforce their governance policies, realise productivity benefits, and lower the total cost of ownership of the SharePoint environment. The lack of enterprise-strength management facilities in SharePoint has been the cause of problems in many organisational IT operations functions. ControlPoint has been developed to work with, and on top of, SharePoint, and is deployed as a S…
Technology Audits - published 24/09/2009 - Alan Rodger, Chandranshu Singh
Oracle JDeveloper is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Java platform, supporting Java SE and Java EE. The product includes the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), a Model-View-Controller framework for Java EE development offering features for reducing coding efforts, promoting code reuse, and offering template-based reusable components. The IDE also includes an instance of the WebLogic Server, and Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC). TPC is significant for being Oracle’s e…
Technology Audits - published 22/09/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
Curl provides the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, an enterprise-ready offering that enables organisations to move their business applications to the Web without compromising on performance, security, or scalability. Curl applications can run inside the browser, as well as outside the browser context on the end user’s desktop. The Curl Runtime Environment installs on the user desktop and is responsible for compiling and executing Curl applications. The platform now offers support for a rang…
Technology Audits - published 22/09/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
When it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, many organisations remain 'land-locked'; restricted by the architectures, deployment models, and functionality of solutions that were conceived in another age - an age when there was no Web 2.0, no mobile Internet, no impending pandemic, and no economic crisis. Of those organisations that are trying to move ahead in the 'new world of work', many IT departments are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly-changing world of information worker solutions and with th…
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 09/09/2009 - Angela Eager, Balachandar Ganesh, Chandranshu Singh, Mark Blowers, Richard Edwards, Rob Hailstone, Sarah Burnett, Sue Clarke
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