10 outils ALM pour réaliser de meilleurs projets

Jama Connect is an application lifecycle management tool with a feature set that supports complex products, systems, software projects, and industry-focused services.

Features include the ability to accurately capture and communicate requirements, goals, progress, and interdependencies throughout the development process. It also allows end-to-end live traceability of people, data, and processes, along with real-time impact analysis, reviews, and approvals with team collaboration. You can manage requirements and traceability across the lifecycle, with flexibility to support various engineering disciplines and development methodologies.

You can integrate Jama Connect requirements and test plans with ALM, PLM, QA, and MBSE to ensure full traceability, visibility, and collaboration across the lifecycle. With API integrations and third-party integration hubs, teams can work in familiar tools while contributing to projects in Jama Connect.

Jama Connect licenses are available on a user and floating basis through an annual subscription model. Pricing and trial information is available upon request.

Targetprocess is marketed as a visual platform to help agile teams scale, providing support for LeSS and SAFe as well as the custom agile framework of your choosing. It's a hybrid between an all-in-one solution and a platform like Tuleap that’s designed to sync your existing tools.

Targetprocess is a really good choice for small to mid-sized companies who aim to scale quickly. Because they offer a free basic version with unlimited users, it’s an attractive choice for teams who are trying out an ALM system for the first time and need to get the hang of their new processes without being overwhelmed by features (or paying an arm and leg for a license).

It supplies an intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface with tools for workflow configuration, requirements management, task management, web-based administration (field-level mapping, automated conflict resolution, etc.), and reporting at the portfolio, program, and product level). Additionally, they offer a Service Desk standalone app that enables issue management in the same standard environment as your development.

Targetprocess comes with 60+ pre-built integrations and offers plugins, mashups, webhooks, REST API and SDK to sync with your existing SLDC tools. It’s available as a SaaS and as an on-premise solution.

Targetprocess costs from $20/user/month. They also offer a free Team version with unlimited users.

Intland Software’s codebeamer is an application lifecycle management platform for advanced product and software development in traditional or regulated safety-critical industries.

The open platform extends comprehensive ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities, and provides unique configurability for complex processes. codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities. The platform provides unique digital workflows for collaborative development, efficiency in product line engineering, and regulatory compliance support for highly regulated industries.

Provide all your teams with a collaborative development hub that enables streamlined data access for all stakeholders. Use codebeamer to establish a digital thread that connects workflows, teams, and tools in digital product innovation. Easily adapt the solution to special engineering needs, and automate process control for regulatory requirements.

Native integrations, flexible APIs, and connections to Integration-as-a-Service hubs enable teams to contribute to the shared development process without disrupting existing toolchains. Visual data analytics capabilities provide end-to-end lifecycle insights with custom reports.

The tool integrates with Jira, Microsoft Word, Excel, IBM Rational DOORS, and plenty more.

codebeamer is available as an on-premise or cloud-hosted SaaS starting at $125/user/month. A free 30-day trial is provided.

Micro Focus offers various products for application lifecycle management, with ALM Octane acting as the main platform and syncing with other applications like their DevOps suite. This is an enterprise agile solution designed to help you scale agile processes, but it accommodates Waterfall and hybrid methodologies as well.

Micro Focus’ ALM software supplies features for continuous ALM testing, defect management, requirements management, cross-project reporting, quality management, and more. It enables organizations to analyze and track continuous pipelines in order to get real-time insight into your CI and CD ecosystems, and it offers a very high degree of flexibility in its business rule engines and customizable forms.

Although the reporting features aren’t quite as good as some of the other tools on this list, users have praised Micro Focus’ ALM tools for their short learning curve: its easily configured graphical interface, as well as its speedy implementation and quick adoption by members within the organization. Overall, this tool is best suited to businesses with a DevOps focus—it offers an array of high-value DevOps-related features that don’t really make sense for use cases where DevOps doesn’t come into play.

Micro Focus can be integrated with 3rd party tools through its REST API, and it comes with out-of-the-box integrations with leading tools like TFS, Jira, Jenkins, Git, and Visual Studio.

Micro Focus ALM Software costs from approx. $150/month.

The two companies CollabNet and VersionOne merged in 2017, combining their software to create an attractive offering of ALM, DevOps, and Agile enterprise solutions. This is a leading example of the type of evolution we can expect to see in ALM as more and more organizations are unifying development and operations, adopting a customized agile approach—and needing a toolset that’s designed to actively shape this evolving, unified atmosphere.

Collabnet VersionOne’s ALM toolkit is designed to help agile enterprises scale, with support for Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, and hybrid methodologies.

Along with VersionOne, which provides agile enterprise management features, their ALM suite includes products like Continuum (continuous delivery platform/DevOps), TeamForge (management platform for bi-modal development), TeamForge SCM (version control compliance, governance, security), and VS (value stream). Through this collection of products, they supply virtually everything under the sun—features for release automation, customer idea management, portfolio planning, test case management, defect tracking, reporting, budgeting, and much more.

Additionally, Collabnet VersionOne comes with 80+ pre-built integrations with leading tools like Jira, CA Agile, ServiceNow, Microsoft TFS, HP, Salesforce, Perforce, GitHub, Jenkins (and the list goes on). On top of this, they sweeten the deal by providing ample support in the form of Scrum, Agile, and product trainings, along with implementation and agile transformation consulting.

Collabnet VersionOne costs from $29/month/user.

In 2018, Microsoft rebranded their Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) as Azure DevOps. Whether you consider this an ALM tool depends on how you define ALM, but Azure DevOps does work much like an ALM solution. It provides a standardized environment for managing a software application through its complete lifecycle with a unified DevOps approach.

Azure DevOps is composed of various self-explanatory modules: Pipelines, Test Plans, Boards, Repos, and Artifacts. Between these modules, this software includes features for planning and tracking work, implementing code, managing source code, running builds in a staging environment, managing CI/CD, testing, and running diagnostics. It also offers the capability to monitor app performance and user behavior in real-time.

As part of the Microsoft ecosystem, Azure DevOps offers dozens of pre-built integrations and a readily accessible library of extensions. Another benefit of this product is its transparent, flexible pricing which you can easily determine by using the interactive price calculator on the Azure site. While it’s definitely more of a “niche” solution designed strictly for DevOps environments, it’s a best-in-breed tool that can easily be extended to provide additional ALM functionality like portfolio management, etc.

Azure costs from $1/user/month. It’s free for 5 users or less.

Formerly Seapine TTP, Perforce’s Helix ALM software is an integration of 3 modules which you can use all together or separately: Helix RM (requirements management), Helix TCM (test case management) and Helix IM (issue management).

Helix ALM is a fast, powerful tool with a great graphical user interface, powerful CLI, and easy integration with IDEs and CI systems. It supports all project methodologies, including hybrids, and offers a comprehensive set of features for requirements management, planning, testing management, issue tracking, automated workflow configuration, risk management, change management, reporting, and collaboration with stakeholders.

The advantage of using Helix ALM is that it’s a very powerful, reliable tool for large projects, and it’s especially well-suited for industries with rigorous compliance standards. The downside to using this tool is that it takes effort to learn and understand how it works—many users have commented on its difficult learning curve and the need to factor in time to train your teams on best practices for using the software.

Helix ALM integrates quickly with source control tools and comes with pre-built integrations with tools like Jira (two-way sync), Slack, git, Rational Doors, Visual Studio, eclipse, and several others.

Perforce Helix ALM costs from $89/month.

Tuleap is quite different from the other tools on the list. In essence, it’s an all-in-one, 100% open source ALM software that provides an open framework for various ALM configurations. They market the tool as being “designed to be re-designed” by your teams. As a result, it grants you the ability to integrate a large number of familiar project management, requirements management, code versioning, code review, CI, test management, documentation, collaboration, and tracking tools.

Tuleap can be set up for the methodologies of your choice (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall) and allows you to work with tools that might already be in your toolkit (Git, Jenkins, Eclipse, etc). It’s an enterprise-class solution that can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud.

Like a lot of open-source software, a major benefit of using Tuleap is community support. Users can get access to the Community Edition—Tuleap’s under development branch—for free, and the company hosts regular webinars and live training and tutorials with Q&A sessions. This is a great ALM tool for teams who use, and like using, a lot of different tools and simply want a central place to integrate them.

Paid versions of Tuleap cost from €5/user/month (~ $5.71 USD/user/month).

Inflectra’s SpiraTeam ALM software is a well-balanced tool: it offers a robust suite full of useful features (with enough customization but not too much), and, unlike many other ALM tools, it comes at an affordable price through a transparent, flexible pricing plan.

Something notable about this tool is that, in addition to the hosted 30-day trial, you can also opt for an on-premise downloaded trial that runs on your hardware for 30 days. Combine this with above-average customer service, and it’s obvious that Inflectra goes the extra mile to reduce risk and create real value for their users.

In terms of features, SpiraTeam offers a full suite for organizations with anywhere between 3 and 500 users: features for managing requirements, testing, code, bugs, risk, collaboration and communication, planning, documentation, reporting, and QA. It supplies personalized dashboards, real-time charts, and customizable workflow and reports, and it supports various agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.

SpiraTeam comes with 55+ integrations, including Visual Studio, Eclipse, Jet Brains, Rapise, Selenium, Ranorex, Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Microsoft TFS, and more. It’s available hosted or on-premise.

Inflectra SpiraTeam costs from $29.99/month for 3 users.

Orcanos provides two main ALM systems, one for R&D management (requirements management, testing) and one for QMS (quality management system). It’s designed for enterprises in the medical device industry, but it delivers features that are useful in medium to large enterprises across various industries. It’s an especially good choice for documentation-heavy industries (like the medical device industry for which it was designed), with electronic document control and centralized management for MRD, Phase/Feature/Functional SRS, and ATP/ATS.

Orcanos’ ALM tool provides a comprehensive integrated suite that enables cross-project traceability and defect tracking, through an interface that users have described as “easy to learn”. Their integrated modules include everything under the sun for defining, testing, and building products: requirements management (with real-time impact analysis), project management (with some great estimation tools), test management, FMEA risk management, customer management, and QA.

While the software is a bit shy on integrations, Orcanos has also been praised for great customer support. And because of its specialized nature, it’s a compelling solution for high-tech, electronics, and medical enterprises.

Orcanos Application Lifecycle Management costs from about $69/user/month.

Jama Connect is an application lifecycle management tool with a feature set that supports complex products, systems, software projects, and industry-focused services.

Features include the ability to accurately capture and communicate requirements, goals, progress, and interdependencies throughout the development process. It also allows end-to-end live traceability of people, data, and processes, along with real-time impact analysis, reviews, and approvals with team collaboration. You can manage requirements and traceability across the lifecycle, with flexibility to support various engineering disciplines and development methodologies.

You can integrate Jama Connect requirements and test plans with ALM, PLM, QA, and MBSE to ensure full traceability, visibility, and collaboration across the lifecycle. With API integrations and third-party integration hubs, teams can work in familiar tools while contributing to projects in Jama Connect.

Jama Connect licenses are available on a user and floating basis through an annual subscription model. Pricing and trial information is available upon request.

Targetprocess is marketed as a visual platform to help agile teams scale, providing support for LeSS and SAFe as well as the custom agile framework of your choosing. It's a hybrid between an all-in-one solution and a platform like Tuleap that’s designed to sync your existing tools.

Targetprocess is a really good choice for small to mid-sized companies who aim to scale quickly. Because they offer a free basic version with unlimited users, it’s an attractive choice for teams who are trying out an ALM system for the first time and need to get the hang of their new processes without being overwhelmed by features (or paying an arm and leg for a license).

It supplies an intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface with tools for workflow configuration, requirements management, task management, web-based administration (field-level mapping, automated conflict resolution, etc.), and reporting at the portfolio, program, and product level). Additionally, they offer a Service Desk standalone app that enables issue management in the same standard environment as your development.

Targetprocess comes with 60+ pre-built integrations and offers plugins, mashups, webhooks, REST API and SDK to sync with your existing SLDC tools. It’s available as a SaaS and as an on-premise solution.

Targetprocess costs from $20/user/month. They also offer a free Team version with unlimited users.

Intland Software’s codebeamer is an application lifecycle management platform for advanced product and software development in traditional or regulated safety-critical industries.

The open platform extends comprehensive ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities, and provides unique configurability for complex processes. codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities. The platform provides unique digital workflows for collaborative development, efficiency in product line engineering, and regulatory compliance support for highly regulated industries.

Provide all your teams with a collaborative development hub that enables streamlined data access for all stakeholders. Use codebeamer to establish a digital thread that connects workflows, teams, and tools in digital product innovation. Easily adapt the solution to special engineering needs, and automate process control for regulatory requirements.

Native integrations, flexible APIs, and connections to Integration-as-a-Service hubs enable teams to contribute to the shared development process without disrupting existing toolchains. Visual data analytics capabilities provide end-to-end lifecycle insights with custom reports.

The tool integrates with Jira, Microsoft Word, Excel, IBM Rational DOORS, and plenty more.

codebeamer is available as an on-premise or cloud-hosted SaaS starting at $125/user/month. A free 30-day trial is provided.

Micro Focus offers various products for application lifecycle management, with ALM Octane acting as the main platform and syncing with other applications like their DevOps suite. This is an enterprise agile solution designed to help you scale agile processes, but it accommodates Waterfall and hybrid methodologies as well.

Micro Focus’ ALM software supplies features for continuous ALM testing, defect management, requirements management, cross-project reporting, quality management, and more. It enables organizations to analyze and track continuous pipelines in order to get real-time insight into your CI and CD ecosystems, and it offers a very high degree of flexibility in its business rule engines and customizable forms.

Although the reporting features aren’t quite as good as some of the other tools on this list, users have praised Micro Focus’ ALM tools for their short learning curve: its easily configured graphical interface, as well as its speedy implementation and quick adoption by members within the organization. Overall, this tool is best suited to businesses with a DevOps focus—it offers an array of high-value DevOps-related features that don’t really make sense for use cases where DevOps doesn’t come into play.

Micro Focus can be integrated with 3rd party tools through its REST API, and it comes with out-of-the-box integrations with leading tools like TFS, Jira, Jenkins, Git, and Visual Studio.

Micro Focus ALM Software costs from approx. $150/month.

The two companies CollabNet and VersionOne merged in 2017, combining their software to create an attractive offering of ALM, DevOps, and Agile enterprise solutions. This is a leading example of the type of evolution we can expect to see in ALM as more and more organizations are unifying development and operations, adopting a customized agile approach—and needing a toolset that’s designed to actively shape this evolving, unified atmosphere.

Collabnet VersionOne’s ALM toolkit is designed to help agile enterprises scale, with support for Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, and hybrid methodologies.

Along with VersionOne, which provides agile enterprise management features, their ALM suite includes products like Continuum (continuous delivery platform/DevOps), TeamForge (management platform for bi-modal development), TeamForge SCM (version control compliance, governance, security), and VS (value stream). Through this collection of products, they supply virtually everything under the sun—features for release automation, customer idea management, portfolio planning, test case management, defect tracking, reporting, budgeting, and much more.

Additionally, Collabnet VersionOne comes with 80+ pre-built integrations with leading tools like Jira, CA Agile, ServiceNow, Microsoft TFS, HP, Salesforce, Perforce, GitHub, Jenkins (and the list goes on). On top of this, they sweeten the deal by providing ample support in the form of Scrum, Agile, and product trainings, along with implementation and agile transformation consulting.

Collabnet VersionOne costs from $29/month/user.

In 2018, Microsoft rebranded their Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS) as Azure DevOps. Whether you consider this an ALM tool depends on how you define ALM, but Azure DevOps does work much like an ALM solution. It provides a standardized environment for managing a software application through its complete lifecycle with a unified DevOps approach.

Azure DevOps is composed of various self-explanatory modules: Pipelines, Test Plans, Boards, Repos, and Artifacts. Between these modules, this software includes features for planning and tracking work, implementing code, managing source code, running builds in a staging environment, managing CI/CD, testing, and running diagnostics. It also offers the capability to monitor app performance and user behavior in real-time.

As part of the Microsoft ecosystem, Azure DevOps offers dozens of pre-built integrations and a readily accessible library of extensions. Another benefit of this product is its transparent, flexible pricing which you can easily determine by using the interactive price calculator on the Azure site. While it’s definitely more of a “niche” solution designed strictly for DevOps environments, it’s a best-in-breed tool that can easily be extended to provide additional ALM functionality like portfolio management, etc.

Azure costs from $1/user/month. It’s free for 5 users or less.

Formerly Seapine TTP, Perforce’s Helix ALM software is an integration of 3 modules which you can use all together or separately: Helix RM (requirements management), Helix TCM (test case management) and Helix IM (issue management).

Helix ALM is a fast, powerful tool with a great graphical user interface, powerful CLI, and easy integration with IDEs and CI systems. It supports all project methodologies, including hybrids, and offers a comprehensive set of features for requirements management, planning, testing management, issue tracking, automated workflow configuration, risk management, change management, reporting, and collaboration with stakeholders.

The advantage of using Helix ALM is that it’s a very powerful, reliable tool for large projects, and it’s especially well-suited for industries with rigorous compliance standards. The downside to using this tool is that it takes effort to learn and understand how it works—many users have commented on its difficult learning curve and the need to factor in time to train your teams on best practices for using the software.

Helix ALM integrates quickly with source control tools and comes with pre-built integrations with tools like Jira (two-way sync), Slack, git, Rational Doors, Visual Studio, eclipse, and several others.

Perforce Helix ALM costs from $89/month.

Tuleap is quite different from the other tools on the list. In essence, it’s an all-in-one, 100% open source ALM software that provides an open framework for various ALM configurations. They market the tool as being “designed to be re-designed” by your teams. As a result, it grants you the ability to integrate a large number of familiar project management, requirements management, code versioning, code review, CI, test management, documentation, collaboration, and tracking tools.

Tuleap can be set up for the methodologies of your choice (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall) and allows you to work with tools that might already be in your toolkit (Git, Jenkins, Eclipse, etc). It’s an enterprise-class solution that can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud.

Like a lot of open-source software, a major benefit of using Tuleap is community support. Users can get access to the Community Edition—Tuleap’s under development branch—for free, and the company hosts regular webinars and live training and tutorials with Q&A sessions. This is a great ALM tool for teams who use, and like using, a lot of different tools and simply want a central place to integrate them.

Paid versions of Tuleap cost from €5/user/month (~ $5.71 USD/user/month).

Inflectra’s SpiraTeam ALM software is a well-balanced tool: it offers a robust suite full of useful features (with enough customization but not too much), and, unlike many other ALM tools, it comes at an affordable price through a transparent, flexible pricing plan.

Something notable about this tool is that, in addition to the hosted 30-day trial, you can also opt for an on-premise downloaded trial that runs on your hardware for 30 days. Combine this with above-average customer service, and it’s obvious that Inflectra goes the extra mile to reduce risk and create real value for their users.

In terms of features, SpiraTeam offers a full suite for organizations with anywhere between 3 and 500 users: features for managing requirements, testing, code, bugs, risk, collaboration and communication, planning, documentation, reporting, and QA. It supplies personalized dashboards, real-time charts, and customizable workflow and reports, and it supports various agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.

SpiraTeam comes with 55+ integrations, including Visual Studio, Eclipse, Jet Brains, Rapise, Selenium, Ranorex, Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Microsoft TFS, and more. It’s available hosted or on-premise.

Inflectra SpiraTeam costs from $29.99/month for 3 users.

Orcanos provides two main ALM systems, one for R&D management (requirements management, testing) and one for QMS (quality management system). It’s designed for enterprises in the medical device industry, but it delivers features that are useful in medium to large enterprises across various industries. It’s an especially good choice for documentation-heavy industries (like the medical device industry for which it was designed), with electronic document control and centralized management for MRD, Phase/Feature/Functional SRS, and ATP/ATS.

Orcanos’ ALM tool provides a comprehensive integrated suite that enables cross-project traceability and defect tracking, through an interface that users have described as “easy to learn”. Their integrated modules include everything under the sun for defining, testing, and building products: requirements management (with real-time impact analysis), project management (with some great estimation tools), test management, FMEA risk management, customer management, and QA.

While the software is a bit shy on integrations, Orcanos has also been praised for great customer support. And because of its specialized nature, it’s a compelling solution for high-tech, electronics, and medical enterprises.

Orcanos Application Lifecycle Management costs from about $69/user/month.