If you’ve listened to other VDC QuickCasts or keep up on our blog, you have probably heard us talk about the seemingly endless increase in software code size and complexity. Software is accounting for an ever greater portion of system value and its development is consuming more and more of organizations’ time and budget. Companies are facing a crisis of complexity as the growth in software volume and complexity outpaces increases in their development budgets. During today’s QuickCast, VDC’s Andre Girard discusses some of the factors software developers face today and how they influence a few key trends in the software and systems lifecycle management market.
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And that wraps up our discussion for today.I want to take a moment to mention two of our main ongoing research services. Our coverage of the embedded software market includes analysis of the embedded/real-time operating system and development tools markets, and also includes insights and analyses around topics such as multicore, virtualization, and embedded security.Among the key areas of focus within VDC’s software and system lifecycle management (or SSLM) tools research are requirements management & definition and source / change / configuration management tools, both of which are covered in the most recent report published earlier this month as the 3rd volume in the SSLM intelligence service. The SSLM service also includes volumes focused on software and system modeling tools, as well as automated test and verification tools; both of which are available now.So in addition to exploring the trends and preferences of the engineering community as reported through the results to our global software and system development survey, these reports also investigate and analyze the leading suppliers of lifecycle management tools and, for the first three volumes, size and forecast the commercial opportunity for these technologies within both the enterprise and embedded markets.Our first two volumes out of this program, focused on the software and system modeling tool and the automated test and verification tool markets are now available. The upcoming volume in the SSLM service, called Agile in Embedded and Enterprise Systems is now underway and is scheduled to publish in SEPTEMBER.Thank you all for your time listening to our webcast on the requirements management & definition and source / change / configuration management tools market. Please be sure to let us know if you have any questions on this or our any of our other embedded software research.
Also, new in 2012 is VDC’s Voice of the Customer series. Our embedded practices will focus on two primary topics: Security & the Internet of Things, and Rich Media & Big Data in Embedded Systems.
Thank you for taking the time to be with us here today.If you have any questions about this quickcast or any of our ongoing research, please do not hesitate to contact us.Thanks again and have a great day.