ONGOING ANALYSIS
Optimizing the value of software investments is vital for organizations responding to the overarching demand on IT to deliver greater value to the business with flat, or only slightly increased spending. This is critical in the context of regulatory compliance initiatives as well as highly distributed development teams that leverage dispersed internal and outsourced staff. Coordination of lifecycle tools, related data, and processes is evolving dynamically in the market as an enabler for better IT governance and separately, in support of development for key new technologies and architectures (SOA, Web Services, component-based and composite development), geographically distributed development (global IT organizations, outsourcing, offshoring), and controls (compliance, transition to production).