This report provides a historical synopsis of the ALM market and makes predictions of where the market is moving. Additionally this report includes analysis of the following vendors:

• HP — defining and expanding the application lifecycle and the necessary link to the line of business
• IBM — providing a comprehensive lifecycle solution for enterprise IT and systems software solutions
• Microsoft — organically creating a lifecycle solution for a heterogeneous environment
• MKS — delivering lifecycle solutions for product engineering teams and IT organizations
• ThoughtWorks Studios — focusing on making the application lifecycle attainable by all organizations
• TOMOS — delivering a lightweight and modern cloud solution for the application lifecycle
• Wind River — delivering a lifecycle solution for software engineering teams of embedded, device, and systems software