HP Revs ALM Platform

Hewlett-Packard today released version 11 of its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Platform, which seeks to unify the management of the application development process with the deployment of those applications.

With the rise of agile application development methodologies, many IT organizations are now creating new applications and updates faster than most of them can effectively deploy.

According to Jonathan Rende, HP vice president and general manager for HP Software, HP is trying to unify the overall application development and deployment process.

New features in HP Application Lifecycle Deployment Platform 11 include tighter integration with a range of integrated development environments, tools for assessing the viability of meeting milestones for any given release or update in real time, tools that automatically import business process models, and integration with version 11 of the HP Quality Center and Performance Center to better validate application quality and performance.

With this release, HP has also automated many routines and tightened the integration with HP Agile Accelerator 4.0, which is a management platform for managing agile application development processes. Rende says that HP is differentiating itself in the ALM category by delivering a platform that supports multiple application development languages and application development methodologies.

No application development organization of any size today, says Rende, is focused on one language or methodology. As a result, Rende says IT organizations now require a single approach to managing the application development and deployment process that spans Java, Microsoft.Net, SAP and other languages in a way that also allows projects based on agile and waterfall application development methodologies to easily coexist with each other.