Melinda-Carol Ballou

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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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IDC Market Glance: DevOps Application Life-Cycle Management, 4Q18 — Optimizing Cross-Platform Quality for Digital Transformation

Nov 2018 | Market Presentation | Doc # US43885218

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

This IDC Market Glance gives visibility into application life-cycle management (ALM) technologies and processes that enable organizations to deliver high-quality software across the DevOps pipeline for agile cross-platform deployment. To su...
GitHub Universe 2018 Announces Enhancements to GitHub's Application Development, User Experience, Security, and Learning Functionality

Nov 2018 | Market Note | Doc # US44411518

By: Jim MercerResearch Director, DevOps, Arnal DayaratnaResearch Director, Software Development, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC Market Note responds to announcements made at the GitHub Universe 2018 conference. The conference illustrated the company's commitment to evolve its platform and enable user support in key emerging areas of expanded development, se...
Worldwide Application Performance Management Software Market Shares, 2017: Growth Continues Amid Shifting Vendor Alignments

Nov 2018 | Market Share | Doc # US44399018

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

This IDC study discusses 2017 vendor market shares and market activity across the worldwide application performance management market.According to Stephen Elliot, program vice president, Enterprise System Management Software, "Growth in APM...

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United States

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Software, Services

Regions

Worldwide, North America

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