Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Solutions

Optimizing ALM for greater agility and quality

Application development has evolved to become more complex and sophisticated over time, requiring an ever increasing range of products and tools to manage the lifecycle. Many of these ALM processes and tools have encountered significant limitations as applications become more dynamic, multi-tier, and component-based, and more globally distributed IT teams contribute at various stages of the application lifecycle. The results can be frustrating and familiar - long delivery cycles, high project costs, increased project risks, and lower software quality.

Common ALM challenges include:

• Difficulty managing accountability for software quality and mitigating the risks of collaborative development across distributed teams
• Inability to automate end-to-end application testing with complete coverage of all underlying components and business logic
• Difficulty obtaining visibility and traceability across multi-tier, distributed, heterogeneous technologies to isolate and identify errors
• Dependency on unavailable or inaccessible systems reduces productivity and introducing delays across development and testing
• Significant costs required to setup application test environments including test lab hardware, software licenses and configure costs
• Inability to continuously validate application functionality, even as underlying components are being changed on their own lifecycles

LISA provides the test, validation and virtualization capabilities necessary to optimize the application lifecycle for greater quality, agility and efficiency. LISA enables greater automation and collaboration across distributed IT teams to maximize the productivity of each participant and assure that their deliverables meet the larger functional requirements of a complex, distributed system. ITKO's LISA product suite provides:

• A collaborative testing environment that directly verifies all technology layers with a high level of automation, so that teams can better meet defined requirements at lower cost
• Continuous software validation so that stakeholders can be assured that each software component supports all upstream and downstream dependencies in an auditable form
• Automated testing across a broad range of heterogeneous technologies and protocols, allowing you to leverage a single test environment and consolidated test cases for end-to-end scenarios
• Load and performance testing that can be applied at both the component and process level, identifying potential problems early and ensuring that performance levels are achieved
• Virtualized test environment, which simulates the behavior of the highly interdependent and critical systems that teams must build and test against, even when they may not have access to live or completed systems.

ALM can provide a significant competitive advantage for a wide variety of business scenarios by enabling organizations to more effectively realize their goals and objectives through software implementations, by providing quality and virtualization tools to support continuous integration.

More global distributed teams combined with rapidly changing, heterogeneous, component-based IT environments require significant changes to traditional ALM approaches to deliver the competitive advantages and results that businesses need. The LISA product suite optimizes application lifecycle management to ensure the quality and agility you expect from your application initiatives, and embeds effective automation and collaboration best practices across the software lifecycle.