The New Generation in ALM & IT Management

Sponsor: Kovair
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Jim Duggan, Martin Onofrio
Type: Video (16 minutes)

- Is your software development process still the same as it was a few decades ago?
- Are you encumbered with single vendor tools that are more a liability than an asset?
- Has your investment in best of breed tools resulted in silos that do not talk to each other or allow for the creation of a process and a good management visibility?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, then there is one Webcast you must watch!

In this program, Jim Duggan, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. addresses solutions for a state-of-the-art development process that allows you to define, monitor, and measure your process across the entire life cycle. Plus, Jim will provide you with answers to these important questions:

- What are the most difficult needs to fill in today’s development projects?
- Can single vendor tool suites improve the management of the core information in the life cycle?
- How can you benefit from fully integrated and process enable best-of-breed tools?
- What are the global challenges for applications development and IT management?

Find out in this new Webcast. Watch now.

In addition, you will hear Martin Onofrio Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Kovair, a leading provider of application development and IT management software, discuss how his company is addressing the current limitations of applications development management. Martin will introduce a unique solution that provides a vendor-neutral application lifecycle management platform, which allows the integration of standard application lifecycle management tools.

See for yourself. Watch now.

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About Jim Duggan
Jim Duggan is a Gartner Research vice president, focusing on application development. He covers tools and methodologies for analysis, design, quality assurance, and software configuration and change management. He has focus areas in application portfolio management and software change and configuration management. Mr. Duggan has more than 28 years of experience in the IT industry. He has played both the consumer and provider role in several generations of IT products. He developed products, developed marketing plans for products, and deployed technology in large corporations. This led to a series of jobs where he has applied this broad perspective to product and business development, and most recently to the analysis of the prospects of technology equities.

About Martin Onofrio

Martin Onofrio has extensive experience in the enterprise software space. Notably, he was an original member of SAP America's team and enjoyed 7 plus years with SAP. As a VP of Sales, he and his team added hundreds of new named customers and drove revenue in excess of 250 million dollars. His career has spanned many functional disciplines to include ERP, CRM, SCM, EAI, eCommerce, wireless, and outsourcing. He also spent time as a senior executive at both KANA software and Blue Martini where he and his teams closed some of the largest transactions in these companies' respective histories. Recently, he has been consulting with several companies to help them achieve their product launch goals and revenue objectives. He is a graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas.