Application Delivery Management
Business-driven application delivery

Every business application faces the same test: IT must deliver technology that functions as intended, performs as planned and contributes to the success of the business. This flexible, pragmatic philosophy is what drives Compuware’s application delivery management solution.

Compuware’s approach to application delivery enables IT to become a more effective partner to the business by continuously aligning and managing application delivery projects with expected business outcomes.  While an integrated discipline is implemented at every stage of the delivery process, visibility into project status and quality are provided across the entire organization, ensuring that IT delivers projects on-time, within budget, as the business intended.

Delivery Management

Our solution for application delivery management gives IT executives the ability to manage the delivery process, equipping them with metrics that matter, both to the IT organization and to the larger business. Visibility into the status and quality of ongoing projects through cross-project executive summary dashboards enables IT to highlight key metrics and identify problem areas early in the delivery process.  More comprehensive insight into the process allows IT to better manage the expectations of the business.  Furthermore, IT delivers business value more accurately with higher levels of customer satisfaction.

Business Requirements Management

Ineffective requirements definition and management is one of the most common reasons why IT organizations struggle to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. By one estimate, when development projects fail, about 70 percent of the time it’s because of inaccurate, missing, or ambiguous project requirements.

Compuware’s solution for business requirements management provides a standard structure for all projects and its associated documents and reports, simplifying the management of multiple projects across large organizations.  Requirements are tracked throughout the application lifecycle, from the inception of an IT project through development and testing. Through effective business requirements management, the entire IT organization is made knowledgeable of the intentions of the business and the outcome they expect to achieve.

Automated Development

Quickly build, customize and deploy high-powered applications driven by business needs, without wasting valuable time tweaking routine infrastructure code.  In Compuware’s approach to application delivery management, expected business functionality is put at the forefront of the development process.  Concise, unambiguous business requirements are fed into the application design plan, ensuring that each phase of development is delivered as expected.  A tighter relationship between the business and development ensures that dates are never pushed and quality is not sacrificed.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance practices must keep pace with the IT organization’s need to plan, control and measure quality against what the business expects.  However, nearly 50% of IT executives claim that their number one challenge in application delivery is quality.  The lack of visibility into their quality practices prevents them from managing delivery timelines and resource levels.  Today’s quality efforts must address the needs of the enterprise – including both the IT and business community.

With Compuware’s Quality Assurance solutions, IT organizations optimize the quality of new applications by focusing on business intent throughout the entire quality process.  Business requirements are prioritized and form the basis for project test plans, ensuring that quality efforts are focused on the functionality most important to the business.

Application Performance Assurance

IT organizations continuously strive to satisfy their business customers by delivering high-performing applications.  However, while all projects begin with the expectation of success, many end up late, over budget and/or plagued by performance issues.

Compuware Application Performance Assurance solution is a comprehensive performance analysis offering that allows IT to confidently deliver applications back to the business that meet performance requirements. Application Performance Assurance takes a proactive approach to performance across the entire delivery cycle to ensure new and enhanced applications perform as expected when deployed. Application Performance Assurance integrates performance profiling and transaction diagnostics with load and stress testing to offer an end-to-end approach that builds performance into the application early in the development life cycle and provides IT with the critical insight needed to deliver excellent application performance, while meeting project deadlines.