Melinda-Carol Ballou

Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

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Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile Seeking to Perfect Its Mobile and Digital Quality Strategy for DevOps

Oct 2018 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS44391818

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

Expanding its DevOps application life-cycle product portfolio, Perforce Software this week announced its intent to acquire Perfecto Mobile, a leading mobile and digital quality provider (reportedly for around $200 million). This acquisition...
Broadcom Acquires CA Technologies; CA Technologies Customers Should Consider Potential Risks

Jul 2018 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS44147918

By: Stephen ElliotProgram Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, Tim GrieserResearch Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software, Mario MoralesProgram Vice President, Enabling Technologies and Semiconductors, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies, Peter RuttenResearch Manager, Server Solutions

Broadcom Inc. is attempting to become a major software provider by entering the mainframe and multi-disciplined distributed management markets by acquiring CA Technologies. CA Technologies' financial model generates operating cash flow of $...
Microsoft Significantly Expands Its Developer Collaboration Portfolio with GitHub Acquisition

Jun 2018 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS43961318

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies, Al GillenGroup Vice President, Software Development and Open Source, Arnal DayaratnaResearch Director, Software Development, Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Larry CarvalhoResearch Director, Platform as a Service

Targeting leverage with developers and incorporation of key code management and software collaboration platform capabilities for its developer portfolio, Microsoft announced the acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Wit...

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Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Agile ALM Quality and Portfolio Strategies, 2018

Sep 2018 | Market Analysis Perspective | Doc # US43390618

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides insight into application life-cycle management (ALM) and project portfolio management (PPM) industry highlights and a review of the market landscape including shares and leading vendor ana...
Worldwide DevOps Software Forecast Update, 2018–2022

Aug 2018 | Market Forecast | Doc # US44193818

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Stephen ElliotProgram Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, Tim GrieserResearch Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide DevOps software market for 2018–2022."The worldwide DevOps software market achieved a level of $3.9 billion in 2017 according to IDC estimates. The market is forecast to reach $8 billion ...
Worldwide DevOps Software Market Shares, 2017: Year of Robust Adoption and Market Expansion

Jul 2018 | Market Share | Doc # US42656318

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Stephen ElliotProgram Vice President, Management Software and DevOps, Tim GrieserResearch Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC study discusses 2017 vendor shares and market activities across the worldwide DevOps software market. This is a relatively new IDC competitive software market that includes portions of revenue found in a number of IDC functional so...

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Melinda-Carol Ballou

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Analyst Research

Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile Seeking to Perfect Its Mobile and Digital Quality Strategy for DevOps

Broadcom Acquires CA Technologies; CA Technologies Customers Should Consider Potential Risks

Microsoft Significantly Expands Its Developer Collaboration Portfolio with GitHub Acquisition

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Agile ALM Quality and Portfolio Strategies, 2018

Worldwide DevOps Software Forecast Update, 2018–2022

Worldwide DevOps Software Market Shares, 2017: Year of Robust Adoption and Market Expansion

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