Extracting the wealth of data that flows
through the network on a daily basis is crucial. Breaking barriers between
application and network management is critical to the understanding of data that
is continually flowing through the network...
Oracle’s intent to acquire the e-TEST Suite assets from independent application and network equipment testing vendor Empirix is a complementary move and converts to a win / win for both companies.
Applications and their associated management are becoming more difficult yet more business critical. As enterprises watch the rise of complex distributed applications and teams, it is clear a solution to assist managing a constantly changing world must emerge. Virtualization technology is rapidly being deployed to assist these complexity demands. Virtualized environments solve a variety of problems yet introduce others.
The acquisition of Mercury by HP is completed. The industry has lost an independent software company to a mega-vendor. It is unclear to the market what HP’s intentions are for the Mercury product line. In a highly competitive enterprise software application lifecycle market, HP does not have the luxury of time to slowly reveal their plans for the Mercury product line. Â
Theresa Lanowitz, Lisa Dronzek | Monday, 21 July 2008
The application lifecycle is an integral part of today’s business. Regardless of core competencies, all organizations are driven by software that is created and customized to deliver a competitive advantage. The application lifecycle is now a strategic part of business.
This document examines the evolution of the application lifecycle and the importance of the core vendors in providing a sound foundation upon which to continue to build and define the application lifecycle.
Presentation slides from the joint Borland/VMware webcast with Theresa Lanowitz from voke talking about what it takes to test and deliver applications that hit their mark using virtualization. And why getting the most out of virtualization depends on how seamlessly it can be integrated with your software testing processes.
Make no mistake, the application lifecycle market is real, in turmoil, and critical to the success of every enterprise - globally. Without the products and solutions being offered in the application lifecycle market, enterprise IT organizations are relegated to technology controlling their destiny. The practice of allowing technology to control the destiny of business is fraught with peril. True focus on the application lifecycle and its integrated roles, responsibilities, and technology will continue to evolve and support the business. The application lifecycle ecosystem catalogs and analyzes the software suppliers in the market. Use this document as a way to evaluate potential partners for your own application lifecycle ecosystem. This document is virtual and updates are triggered by market events. Suppliers to the ecosystem will be added on a regular basis. Version 1.5 continues to build out the Application Lifecycle Continuum with Empirix placed in the “Contender” position.
Make no mistake, the application lifecycle market is real, in turmoil, and critical to the success of every enterprise - globally. Without the products and solutions being offered in the application lifecycle market, enterprise IT organizations are relegated to technology controlling their destiny. The practice of allowing technology to control the destiny of business is fraught with peril. True focus on the application lifecycle and its integrated roles, responsibilities, and technology will continue to evolve and support the business. The application lifecycle ecosystem catalogs and analyzes the software suppliers in the market. Use this document as a way to evaluate potential partners for your own application lifecycle ecosystem. This document is virtual and updates are triggered by market events. Suppliers to the ecosystem will be added on a regular basis.
This analysis is provided as historical reference for Mercury. The analysis was conducted prior to the announcement of HP’s intent to acquire Mercury.  Please see the voke First Impressions analysis of the acquisition announcement.  The Mercury segment of the Application Lifecycle Ecosystem will be updated once the intended HP acquisition is completed.Â
2008 was a tough year for IT, and 2009-2010 appear to be more of the same: Budget cuts, a focus on conserving cash and doing more with less. At the same time, technology has not stood still: innovative technologies that have the potential to deliver strategic value, such as application virtualization and replay debugging, are still being developed, and are entering the mainstream. What can we learn from previous economic downturns with regards to making technology investments in such a climate?
Join Theresa Lanowitz, analyst from voke, and Jonathan Lindo, CEO and Founder of Replay Solutions for a podcast discussion of current challenges in today's application problem resolution processes and suggestions for how application development teams can dramatically shorten the process of fixing defects to speed time-to-market. This session will give practical guidance on how your application team can:
Make incremental investments that have immediate ROI through the elimination of manual work
Save money and increase efficiency by eliminating complex processes needed to reproduce defects
Improve productivity with better collaboration between geographically disperse teams
Increase application quality by fixing those hard to find or elusive defects
Replay Solutions provides application problem resolution products that dramatically shorten the process of fixing defects to speed time-to-market. ReplayDIRECTOR functions like a DVR for enterprise applications - recording all inputs and events affecting your application while it is running, then replaying those steps to execute the code in exactly the same way and reproduce the error without needing to reproduce the environment the defect occurred in.
This week at VMWorld 2007 it was apparent that virtualization is moving up the stack and tool vendors proliferated. Listen to voke principal analyst Theresa Lanowitz on this edition of "Week in Review."
Application performance management requires you to pay attention to
each step of the performance lifecycle - from designing the
architecture, to the build, to testing, monitoring, maintenance and
management. Performance experts dissect each phase of the lifecycle to
reveal solutions for the most common performance problems, the right
tools for the job, and tips for finding, diagnosing and fixing
performance bugs.
This free, one-day virtual seminar focuses on:
Techniques for applying application management across the lifecycle
How to elicit performance goals for client, server and mobile applications
Applying a tools-based approach to any application performance management process
How to identify performance issues in cloud environments
Performance experts discuss ways to document performance and scalability requirements, track those requirements through development and test, and measure performance across every stage of the development lifecycle. The panel concludes with a debate on how to best determine if those requirements are met prior to moving to production. This discussion gives you insight into how to:
Define measurable performance requirements before a line of code is written
Drive development and test strategies through effective performance requirements
Determine if performance requirements are met before application deployment
In this joint Borland/VMware webcast, Theresa Lanowitz from voke will talk about what it takes to test and deliver applications that hit their mark using virtualization. And why getting the most out of virtualization depends on how seamlessly it can be integrated with your software testing processes.
Join Theresa Lanowitz, voke, Inc. and Dan Koloski, Empirix as they highlight ways to move from simply being a tester of software to an advocate for your organization’s customers.
Get first hand the latest industry study on the tangible benefits of adopting Virtual Lab Automation. Theresa Lanowitz, founder of Voke Inc. will elaborate on the findings from a recent field study.
Learn how your peers are:
Tackling infrastructure and process challenges associated with supporting the development and testing of complex applications and systems
Making the decision to adopt Virtual Lab Automation
Benefiting from the results of virtualizing and automating the test lab
voke names HP as Pivotal Vendor in Application Lifecycle Market Mover Array(TM) Chart
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in the Pivotal band of the voke Market Mover Array chart. HP’s position shows it is strong in both market leadership and technology. HP has continued to show progress and commitment to the application lifecycle market through its acquisition and partnering strategies. HP’s acquisition of Mercury in November 2006 has allowed the vendor to catapult its application lifecycle status to a higher level. The Mercury acquisition with market leading quality assurance offerings gave HP a core competency to work with as the vendor navigated the application lifecycle path.
HP is working to prove itself as an enterprise-worthy partner in the application lifecycle market. Its partnerships and acquisitions have proven to be strategic over the past 24 months. Watch for HP to deliver more value through organic growth of its offerings.
