Contact IDC Help Shopping Cart Edit Your Profile
Search
 
IDC Home IDC Research IDC Products & Services IDC Events IDC Analysts IDC Online Store About IDC My IDC
 

Meet Our Team

Daphne Chung Photo
Daphne Chung
Senior Research Manager, Asia/Pacific System Infrastructure and Middleware Software Research
Stephen D. Hendrick Photo
Stephen D. Hendrick
Group Vice President, Application Development and Deployment Research
Melinda-Carol Ballou Photo
Melinda-Carol Ballou
Program Director, Application Life-Cycle Management & Executive Strategies

Application Life-cycle Management

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).