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In search of a change management system (Part II)

November 9th, 2006

After hunting for vendor independent material (see Part I) it was time to look at the vendor material. So I typed in “change management” into google and scan through the sponsored links … the following seemed relevant

• IBM Rational: the link takes us to Clear Case which is a source code management system.
  
• Sunview Software: lets you define workflows for different change types and then users to use them
• www.seapine.com/SCM: development tool to streamline software development
• www.bmc.com leads to a form which leads to a link to a whitepaper again about defining the business process and keeping track of a change request/project as it completes various phases
• www.Pega.com seems to be process definition and automation
• Solidcore: track and enforce changes on systems
• Opsware: provisioning system to push out new software to endpoints
• MetricsStream: quality management process

I refined the search to IT Change Management and the following other companies showed up:

• nLayers (EMC): application discovery and mapping tool for cmdb

Okay, so if you were looking for change management you could buy a software development system, process automation/ticket system, provisioning system, change tracking and enforcement, discovery and mapping tool. There seems to be no relationship between them but their marketing messages seem identical: conrol change, follow process, increase performance, be compliant … blah blah blah

So which one makes sense? (to be continued …. in part III)

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