Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites: Which solution is best?

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is becoming integral to enterprise as business leaders push forward to drive results and modernise their organisations. However, ALM isn’t always simple to implement, and many organisations have chosen to partner with a dedicated vendor to reach their goals.

Over 540,000 professionals have used PeerSpot research to inform their purchasing decisions. Its latest paper looks at the highest rated ALM Suite vendors, profiling each and examining what they can offer enterprise.

Here’s a breakdown of the key players currently active in the market:

codeBeamer ALM

Average Rating: 10

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: A market-leading ALM platform that is holistically integrated, and packed with features that help businesses develop better products faster.

Jira

Average Rating: 8.0

Top Comparison: Microsoft Azure DevOps

Overview: A solution which delivers greater capacity for a large user base and gives organisations more control, allowing them to remain compliant with enterprise IT, security, IP, and privacy policies.

Micro Focus AccuRev

Average Rating: 10

Top Comparison: TFS

Overview:  Software configuration management system for application, product, or website development to help create programmes or applications.

Micro Focus ALM Octane

Average Rating: 8.4

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: Helps organisations implement a “quality everywhere” approach and improve Agile and DevOps development and testing processes to improve the flow of work across the software delivery value stream.

Micro Focus ALM Quality Centre

Average Rating: 6.6

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: Designed for complex multi-application environments, it allows organisations to achieve high efficiency in their testing and measure quality with a requirements-driven and risk-based testing approach.

Microsoft Azure DevOps

Average Rating: 8.0

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: A cloud service that enables developers to collaborate on code development projects and create and deploy applications quicker than ever before.

Planview AgilePlace

Average Rating: 9.0

Top Comparison: Microsoft Azure DevOps

Overview: Enables organisations and teams to visualise work by using enterprise Kanban boards and lean metrics to promote continuous flow of work and accelerate the speed of delivery.

Polarion ALM

Average Rating: 8.0

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: The world’s first 100% browser-based ALM enterprise solution, which enables seamless collaboration across disparate teams, multi-directionally linked work items, full traceability, accelerated productivity and automated proof of compliance.

Rally Software

Average Rating: 8.2

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: Lets businesses plan, prioritise, manage, track, and continuously improve their work so that they can deliver the value that customers need with speed, quality, and efficiency.

TFS

Average Rating: 7.8

Top Comparison: Jira

Overview: Supports agile development practices, multiple IDEs and platforms locally or in the cloud and gives businesses the tools they need to effectively manage software development projects throughout the IT lifecycle.

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