Report Date: December 2010 This study uses the IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model to evaluate the IT project portfolio management market. This research enables analysis of quantitative and qualitative characteristics to provide metrics and context for users evaluating solutions in this area and also to help analyze a vendors current comparative success in the marketplace and to anticipate vendor evolution. The main user focus areas for this market include enterprise IT PPM assessment and evaluation of emerging, flexible delivery models for SaaS and on demand as we did last year. As a result of trend analysis and observed user demand, IDC is adding two weighted views to our assessment this year (for a total of four views): IT financial management (ITFM), which encompasses excellent financial management and end-to-end costing capabilities via integration with the IT service catalog and service management to enable visibility and reporting into operational costs for software. We are also evaluating application life-cycle management (ALM) coordination and integration with IT PPM. With a rise in complex sourcing, we increasingly see the need for metrics and service-level agreements (SLAs) that incorporate visibility into areas such as testing, change management, and requirements solutions. Incorporation of automated tools used constantly (often daily) by development teams also increases the currency and relevancy of project data. This can facilitate evaluation of internal and external resources, while improving process adoption. In that context, adoption of agile processes also demands management to help coordinate consistency for what might otherwise be fractured agile sprints and initiatives. This study evaluates the principal vendors participating in the IT project portfolio management market. At a time of economic disruption, businesses require the capability to be able to effectively prioritize ever-declining resources. This is not an academic exercise. Companies must make appropriate IT decisions for their businesses in response to both the economy and compliance pressures or face failure. IDCs IT PPM evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters to assess vendors relative to one another, to user demand and to market and competitive success for the short term and long term.
Mentions: AtTask, PowerSteering, Innotas, Daptiv, Serena, BMC, SAP, IBM, Planisware, Microsoft, Oracle, CA Technologies, Planview, Compuware, HP, Troux Software, Rally Software, Atlassian, CollabNet, MKS, Gensight, Metier, Tenrox
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