At least one organization has achieved a return on investment (ROI) of up to $2 million as a result of addressing Software Production Management with tool and process improvements, according to Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke, Inc.

"Software Production Management enables organizations to behave in a strategic fashion while quickly delivering high quality product to its customers, even in the most complex environments," said Lanowitz. "Highly optimized organizations are experiencing tremendous return on investment -- in some cases upwards of $2M per year -- by treating SPM as a critical component of the application lifecycle. The report we are announcing today proves this and shows the significance of including SPM solutions within the application lifecycle."

The report shows that the Application Lifecycle 2.0 is evolving to include more sophisticated offerings like SPM to help facilitate the communication, collaboration, and connectivity that organizations must have with the line of business, their customers, their vendors, their suppliers, and all of their partners.

"Through software production management, we've seen our customers go from 10-, 20-, even 40-hour build and test cycles to a continuous integration mode,” said Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud, a leading provider of SPM solutions. “We have also helped organizations re-deploy headcount dedicated to maintaining scripts. This makes teams more agile and more productive -- it's a significant difference in how teams develop software."

According to the voke research, the effective use of SPM solutions can yield several benefits:

• Enhanced productivity and efficiency of distributed teams
• Reduced or static staff size while increasing output
• Repurpose resources to more strategic activities
• Faster time-to-market
• Decreased duration of builds
• Effective management of parallel releases

About this study

The voke "Software Production Management Market Snapshot(TM)" is based on an independent survey of the role, technology and benefits regarding the automation and acceleration of the software build-test-deploy process, or Software Production Management (SPM). The research also illustrates the role of SPM within the Application Lifecycle 2.0 and how it has become a critical component in the creation and delivery of quality software.

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