Analyst Coverage

Aldon offers strong ALM portfolios and has a significant market presence. Aldon is fast on the way to overall market leadership and will heat up the ALM space. Aldon has a significant market impact owing to an exhibition of strong revenue growth and top-of-the-class R&D reinvestments.

—Datamonitor: ALM Report

Gartner recognizes Aldon's key strengths in the 2009 Magic Quadrant for SCCM which include release and distribution support designed for complex and challenging situations; strong coordination for multiplatform deployments; support for third-party SCCM products, such as Subversion and Perforce; and well-thought-out ALM and service management integrations.

—Gartner 2009 Magic Quadrant

Analyst firm IDC says that "process improvement, GDD, compliance, acquisitions, requirements management, increasing complexity of software, and SOA" are driving the demand for ALM. The market is forecasted to grow to $2.1 billion in 2012, achieving an 8.3% compound annual growth rate, despite a tough economic climate.

—IDC, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Principal Analyst, ALM

IDC points out that "Aldon's metadata repository, CMDB, and emerging business process and workflow position the company well through2009.

—IDC, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Principal Analyst, ALM

Providing support for such geographically-disparate and technology-demanding environments will stretch the abilities of many traditional project management tools and indeed quite a few current ALM products. Aldon’s answer involves providing new generation ALM services that are capable of managing the seamless delivery of traditional code-based developments, alongside services-driven application assemblies, irrespective of geography or technology complexities.

—The Butler Group, Andrew Kellett, Senior Research Analyst