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Worldwide Customer Survey Reveals Aldon ALM Key to Building Web 2.0 Applications

(Oct 16, 2007)-- Aldon, provider of process-driven application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions,  announced the results of a global customer survey revealing leading organizations are using Aldon ALM to help manage business-critical IT initiatives ranging from Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to compliance to outsourcing, in an effort to bring processes to the development lifecycle. The survey was conducted to help better understand companies’ top priorities for using ALM solutions and the market forces driving its adoption.

The survey, which was completed by more than 400 Aldon customers in August and September of 2007, revealed that 62 percent of respondents are currently developing web services or implementing SOA, and more than a third are using Aldon ALM to manage the development. The results demonstrate the surge in Web 2.0 development taking place in leading IT organizations worldwide. Unitrin Specialty, a leading auto insurance provider, is a key Aldon customer benefiting from Aldon ALM to manage its SOA development for extending web services out to agents and brokers.

“Aldon delivers a logical metadata registry so we can easily search and locate services, which creates more reuse of services and code across the department,” said Jason Whorrall, Rating Applications development, Unitrin Specialty. “With Aldon we have gained process management across our SOA and traditional application development that accommodates our complex IT environment.”

The survey also showed that nearly 50 percent of the respondents are outsourcing application development or managing geographically distributed teams. One leading financial services customer is running a major network of geographically distributed IT teams across four countries, where Aldon is currently accessed by more than 100 users. With Aldon, the company gains standardized IT processes across the organization so issues are tracked from the time they are raised to resolution and managers can identify potential trouble spots in advance and act accordingly.

The importance of compliance issues is also highlighted by the results, with over 57 percent of respondents using Aldon’s solution to address regulatory issues and compliance. Of these, the majority – 67 percent - are using it for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Other compliance initiatives mentioned include PCI, ITIL, HIPAA, Basel II and The Patriot Act. Masterbrand Cabinets, Inc. is an ideal example of compliance done right by implementing Aldon ALM.

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