Aldon Inc.

Aldon

Infobox_Company
company_name = Aldon Inc.
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Process-Driven Application Lifecycle Management for Every Environment
foundation = 1979
location = Emeryville, CA, U.S.
num_employees = 100+ est. (2007)
industry = Computer software
homepage = [http://www.aldon.com/ www.aldon.com]

Headquarters:
Emeryville, California, U.S.
United Kingdom, International

Current Management:
Matt Scholl, President and Chief Operations Officer
Ron Oliveira, Chief Technology Officer
Debi Smulyan, VP of Product Development
David Lefkowich, VP of Global Sales
Craig Tobey, VP of US Sales

Industry:
Computer software

Products:
Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition)
Aldon Lifecycle Manager (System i Edition)
Aldon Community Manager
Aldon Deployment Manager

Employees: 100+ (2007)

Slogan:
Process-Driven Application Lifecycle Management for Every Environment

Website:
[http://www.aldon.com Aldon.com]

Aldon (http://www.aldon.com/) is an American multinational independent software vendor with over 100 employees. Privately-held, this established company develops, manufactures, licenses and supports software change management products for the enterprise application lifecycle management (ALM) and software change management (SCM) markets.fn|1^,fn|2

Headquartered in Emeryville, California, U.S., Aldon also has offices in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East. The company’s current suite of products includes Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager and Aldon Community Manager. Collectively, these products have been developed to help organizations improve the way they manage and deploy information technology (IT) development projects.fn|3 The solution addresses process automation, requirements management, software configuration management, multiple version management and systems deployment to support enterprise-wide development teams working within complex, multi-platform environments.fn|4 Each year, Aldon invests more than 25% of its revenue into research and development.fn|5^,fn|6

Aldon was founded in 1979 by Albert Magid and Don Parr to provide tools designed to meet the needs of midrange software developers.fn|7 The company’s process-driven products were designed to provide infrastructure around complex software projects.

In May 2007, Aldon was acquired by Los Angeles-based Marlin Equity Partners.fn|8 According to industry analyst Timothy Prickett Morgan, the partnership provides Aldon with expanded resources to better serve the needs of its customers and accelerate growth through continued investment in its products. fn|9

Aldon’s products are intended to be used by IT departments that have an ongoing need for improved project efficiency and control when building and delivering projects.fn|10 Over 1,300 companies, including 70 of the Fortune 100, use Aldon’s products for enterprise software application configuration and change management for their IT business processes.fn|11 Aldon operates out of 16 offices worldwide supporting customers in more than 40 different countries.fn|12

History

1979-1989: Beginnings

Aldon was founded in 1979 by Albert Magid and Don Parr, who believed that IT professionals spent too much time and effort automating the work of others in the company and too little time automating their own. The company’s initial product offerings were developed in line with the corporate goal of insulating IT staff members from the underlying complexity of the development environment through software revision control and change management. fn|13

Aldon’s first product, Compare, a file and database compare tool for the IBM mainframe, was introduced in 1982.fn|14 In 1983, S/Compare, the first source change documentation tool on the market, was offered. At that time, Aldon also sold an object file compare tool called O/Compare. fn|15^,fn|16Originally developed for the HP 3000, S/Compare was part of a suite of comparison tools for that environment. Designed to enable programmers to identify differences in program code, it used advanced algorithms to provide comparisons that were more accurate than other tools could produce. Customers used S/Compare to identify the changes they had made to purchased packages, allowing them to integrate those changes into new releases of the packages they had bought. fn|17^,fn|18

S/Compare was eventually developed into a comprehensive source compare and merge tool, known as Aldon Harmonizer. The product compared current releases with new releases and then merged the versions to create a whole new set of source and objects. It also supported parallel development by identifying and merging the work of two or more programmers who had modified the same program simultaneously.fn|19

In the late 1980s, Harmonizer was converted to run on IBM’s System/38, a minicomputer platform manufactured and sold by the IBM Corporation.fn|20 Originally released in 1979, System/38 was a precursor to the AS/400 (later known as iSeries, Application System/400 and now System i). Aldon’s decision to convert its product to run on IBM’s platform marked Aldon’s entry into iSeries development.

Aldon made its home in downtown Oakland, California, for its initial fourteen years of business, with the first office located in the Financial Center Building on 14th and Franklin Streets. Aldon relocated to its present headquarters in Emeryville in 2004. fn|21

1989-1999: An Embrace of IBM’s iSeries and Entry into Multi-Platform Development

In 1990, Aldon released Aldon/CMS, a software change management (SCM) system for traditional iSeries development. fn|22 Aldon/CMS has since been renamed Aldon Lifecycle Manager (i).

In the mid-1990s, IBM transformed the AS/400 into “the most powerful, scalable, secure and flexible server for web-based, e-commerce and client/server computing in the world.” fn|23 According to Wikipedia, IBM’s platform was established as “the most advanced business computer in the industry.” fn|24

At the time, many AS/400 software vendors were in the process of upgrading their applications to the client/server model and were encouraging their customers to purchase these new versions. fn|25 Many AS/400 IT professionals, however, were reluctant to do so. They were concerned about moving into a complex environment, where the risk of failure was high and even successful applications were notoriously unreliable. fn|26

The goal was to make the move in a way that maximized the use of the new technology while maintaining the traditional AS/400 advantages of security, reliability and ease of application development.

In 1996, Daniel Magid took the helm as CEO of Aldon. fn|27Magid came to Aldon from IBM, where he had worked in both marketing and selling midrange computer systems for the General Systems Division. While at IBM, Magid became a true believer in the AS/400 value proposition. He found the iSeries to be the most reliable, secure and easiest-to-manage server a company could use to deploy its business applications. He also believed it was the most productive application development platform in the marketplace. fn|28

In concert with Magid’s vision, Aldon worked closely with developers in IBM’s Rochester and Toronto laboratories to ensure that Aldon products fit snugly within IBM’s application development tools. fn|29^,fn|30

Helping IT professionals make the jump to the client/server model without compromising the stability of their platforms was Magid’s objective. fn|31 He believed that a client/server software change management (SCM) system that applied the principles of Total Quality Management to software development -- with structured, repeatable, measurable and automated processes -- would insulate programmers from the complexity of underlying processes and allow them to focus on the creative work of building applications, ultimately benefiting entire organizations. fn|32

In the mid-90’s, Aldon customers began to ask for change management support for the non-iSeries code they were writing around their iSeries applications. fn|33^,fn|34 Initially, Aldon executives considered simply building an interface between the Aldon iSeries product and a product provided by a non-iSeries tool vendor. However, Windows and UNIX architecture differs significantly from iSeries architecture. fn|35^,fn|36

Unlike existing AS/400 SCM systems, traditional PC tools are oriented toward managing versions of source rather than managing the process of building applications. (The names of these products revealed their functions, as many of them have “version control” or “source” in their names.)

Also, the vendors of most of the PC systems expressed little or no interest in supporting the AS/400 environment. AS/400 users were accustomed to sophisticated SCM systems that covered both version and process control. They needed a system that managed both PC and AS/400 objects. fn|37

Aldon executives realized they could never provide the ease-of-use, process automation and seamless integration customers needed if the company did not design and build the new system specifically to work with its existing iSeries products. fn|38

In 1997, Aldon embarked on its largest effort ever: the development of the multi-platform Aldon Affiniti, which would allow coders to use process management to handle complex development environments across multiple platforms, including UNIX, Windows, Linux, Mainframe and iSeries. fn|39

Aldon Affiniti, later known as Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition), or LM(e), was released in 1998. fn|40

2000-present: Regulatory Compliance, SOA and the Leap to Distributed Platforms

"Regulatory Compliance"

In 2004-2005, with the collapse of Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco, WorldCom and other financial companies, governments across the globe -- led by the United States -- began to mandate compliance to standards such as those delineated in the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act. While not required for everyone, it became evident to companies that complying with the regulations was simply good business practice. fn|41 Companies began seeking automation to soften the burden of SOX compliance. fn|42

For example, MasterBrand Cabinets, a client of Aldon, started down the change management road as a way to comply with SOX. The path was bumpy at times, but somewhere along the way, developers realized the new system brought benefits of its own beyond the realm of compliance, namely, respite from the chaos typical in manual software development. fn|43Other industries had their own new sets of compliance requirements: HIPAA (healthcare), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (financial institutions), 21CFR Part 11 (Food and Drug Administration), Basel II (credit card industry), environmental protection laws and standards and more. fn|44In addition, tax code changes, RFID mandates, ISO 9001 and ISO 14000, SEI/CMM, change control management, UCCnet compliance and even tracking and reporting on contractual compliance and service-level agreements, were added to the list. Companies were under enormous pressure to comply with these various and complex mandates. fn|45

The crisis proved to be a boon for Aldon and other SCM companies who for years had championed the benefits of structured, repeatable processes, visibility and audit trails for IT. SCM offered significant benefits to companies implementing best practices to meet compliance requirements. fn|46 The software could help companies provide what the government was asking of these them.

Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been called the single most important IT initiative to come along in the last decade. fn|47 According to industry analysts, SOA will have a significant impact on how application development organizations will develop and deliver applications in the future. Its impacts will be felt throughout entire organizations and will impact their ability to succeed in the coming years. fn|48

The power of SOA comes from its ability to define and deliver requirements from a business view. Aldon executives recognized that the company’s central repository and process-focus made possible a business perspective of services and application inventory, helpful for SOA reuse and development. fn|49 Further, the products work with reusable code assemblies packaged as services that can be called without special, platform-specific integration. fn|50According to industry analyst Yvonne Genovese of Gartner, “Through 2010, registries with repository support will be the centerpiece of any business services repository.” fn|51 Change management solutions are expected to become increasingly significant as service-based infrastructures are implemented. fn|52

Distributed Platforms

In the middle of the current decade, distributed computing began to attract widespread notice. fn|53Distributed, or parallel, computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network. fn|54

In February 2005, Aldon responded to the call for distributed systems, delivering to market the multiplatform version of Aldon Lifecycle Manager 5.0, which enabled organizations to run their source code repository on any AIX or Linux server, instead of requiring an iSeries server. Using Lifecycle Manager 5.0, developers could configure their views to individual work requirements, whether they were working with IBM, WebSphere Development Studio, Eclipse or Microsoft tools that are compliant with its Source Code Control Integration (SCCI) APIs. fn|55^,fn|56 The entry signified a major expansion in the functionality of the product and moved Aldon from its traditional customer base into a distributed systems customer base. At fiscal year end 2005, the company announced 28 percent growth, which they attributed to the success of the new product functionality. fn|57

In 2005-2006, IDC noted, “Aldon pushed out well beyond its earlier (and ongoing) focus for SCM in the iSeries environment with a multiplatform, process-centric solution…With the launch of Aldon Lifecycle Manager 5.0, which added server-side support for Linux, AIX and Windows, Aldon made a concerted, effective push beyond its base market.” fn|58

In May 2007, Aldon added features to its ALM offering to further aid parallel development. A graphical interactive compare and merge utility was designed to enable developers working in distributed environments to see what was different between programs. Conflict resolution allow would allow developers to sort and identify version conflicts using status tags, such as active, pending, or cleared, speeding up parallel development. fn|59

The expansion in product functionality triggered new opportunities for the company. While many subsidiary companies had previously purchased Aldon’s software for their IT shops, now Aldon began to see their larger parent corporations begin implementing the product company-wide as their change management standard. fn|60 Nintendo of America Inc., for example, selected Aldon Lifecycle Manager to manage the development of corporate applications across its multi-platform enterprise. fn|61

Today, client companies use Aldon to manage large, geographically distributed or outsourced development teams and/or multiple releases in parallel development. They purchase Aldon’s products for help managing multi-tier inventories of applications, services, source code, software development artifacts, metadata, configurations and components. fn|62

Other Notable Events

In May 2004, Aldon announced new brand names for its product suite, as well as the newly shortened company name. fn|63 The changes were designed to reflect Aldon’s leadership position in the rapidly growing market for comprehensive, enterprise-wide, multi-platform application change management solutions. fn|34

In January 2007, Aldon joined Microsoft Corporation’s Midrange Alliance Program. The MAP was created in 2005 to help iSeries users modernize their legacy environments in the following ways: extending OS/400 applications to Windows, integrating OS/400 and Windows applications and ultimately migrating workloads to Windows from OS/400. fn|65 Aldon was the first provider of change management software to join the group. fn|66

On May 7, 2007, Aldon announced the acquisition of the business by Marlin Equity Partners. fn|67 Marlin Equity Partners is a Los Angeles, California-based private investment firm focused on providing corporate partners, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs in special situations. Marlin invests in businesses across multiple industries that are in the process of undergoing varying degrees of operational, financial or market-driven change where its capital base, industry relationships and network of operational resources can strengthen a company’s outlook and enhance value. fn|68

Products

Aldon’s ALM products integrate requirements management, modeling, development, software configuration management, change management, testing and deployment. Key to this capability is a centralized software inventory organized from a business perspective to give business decision-makers a real-time “view” into the enterprise's ongoing software development projects. fn|69SCM systems shield users from the complexity of application development across multiple environments and platforms and allow them to move the code quickly, reliably and easily. The system works by expanding the inventory database to track object locations across multiple environments, such as development, test or QA, and on multiple platforms including OS/400, NT or UNIX. Process management allows for the movement of different file types across various operating platforms. The system is a thin client, client/server application that permits access through a Windows graphical user interface or a browser to accommodate geographically dispersed development teams. fn|70 Aldon integrates with Oracle’s JD Edwards World, Telelogic "Doors,” AllFusion 2E, AS/SET, Infinium, LANSA and Lawson. fn|71

Aldon supports several popular IDEs, including Eclipse, IBM WebSphere Studio, Rational Application Developer 6.0 and up, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (and earlier versions) and other tools that support Microsoft Source Code Control Interface (SCCI). fn|72 Aldon’s integrated suite of products includes:

*Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition)
*Aldon Lifecycle Manager (System i Edition)
*Aldon Community Manager
*Aldon Deployment Manager

Aldon Lifecycle Manager provides a unified management perspective for enterprise application configuration and change management. It manages all the parts of an application and its numerous release lifecycles and ensures that all changes move through the appropriate processes on their way to production. Regardless of the number of platforms or complexity of the application architecture, Aldon Lifecycle Manager enables users to view, retrieve, control and act on all parts of every application as a single unit. fn|73

Aldon Community Manager facilitates the communication, workflow and information shared among application stakeholders – from the time a request for a function is first entered, through the delivery of the solution to production until the application is retired. The product enables everyone involved to participate in the continuing development and deployment of applications. It also ties IT more closely to the goals of the business by providing the ability to bring in the right decision makers to prioritize change requests as they arise. fn|74 Aldon Community Manager enhances understanding of an application’s impact and usage to facilitate a better fit to requirements, faster delivery, lower cost, greater customer satisfaction and a higher return on investment. Facilitating incident-driven change management, Aldon Community Manager ensures that problem management is fully integrated with enterprise application change management. fn|75Aldon Community Manager has received the ITIL Service Support certification and is fully compliant and compatible with the ITIL Service Desk function and Incident Management process discipline. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of guidelines developed by the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce and is based on an integrated, best practice framework designed to manage IT services and improve IT management. fn|76

Working in conjunction with Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager automates the deployment of all the application parts to the appropriate servers throughout the lifecycle – regardless of platform. Ensuring delivery to destination machines, Aldon Deployment Manager gathers, packages, distributes and installs application components independently or in concert with utilities on destination machines. fn|77

Aldon also continues to provide strong System i support with the following products: Aldon Lifecycle Manager (System i edition), Harmonizer (source control and merge), Analyzer (test coverage monitoring) and TestBench (System i testing tool). fn|78

Customers and the market

IT is in transition. These days, executives expect CIOs and IT to play a significant role in improving business performance. CIOs are being asked to transform businesses through a variety of means, including raising process performance through automation, integration and standardization. Businesses are turning to IT for innovative answers to compete in the market and meet the needs of customers. fn|79

Gartner states, “Business views of IT are changing, transforming the roles of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the way IT must support business initiatives. Isolated processes that are developed to support waterfall-style development organizations are giving way to a quality system, supporting consistent delivery of service levels.” fn|80The idea now is that people, process and technology are inextricably linked and that all must work together harmoniously to succeed. Costs, quality, complexity and delivery speed must be carefully managed. IT groups are now expected to work across multiple functional areas and organizational lines. fn|81

In March 2007, IT analyst firm Aberdeen Group published research highlighting ALM solutions as a critical component for Best in Class Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations, and named Aldon as a key ALM provider. fn|82 In this report, Aberdeen stated that organizations will need ALM for successful deployments and SOA initiatives. fn|83Seeking real agility in the face of market challenges is driving increased recognition of change and configuration processes. Leading organizations are striving to improve the identification, management and implementation of changes throughout software development. According to industry analyst Aberdeen Group, companies that can do this successfully will reap significant benefits. fn|84

Gartner recommends that companies move from siloed management to an integrated system, which requires redefining roles, responsibilities and linkages between the business, application development and IT operations. fn|85 Extending a unified, automated process management system to IT is a key part of this goal. Greater business and IT alignment, a stated benefit of Aldon’s product, is being demanded. fn|86 Gartner predicts that by 2009, one in eight companies will have garnered more than 30 percent improvement in operational costs by implementing change management governance and processes across IT. fn|87

Analysts believe that demand for ALM will remain strong in the face of outsourcing/offshoring, regulatory compliance, SOA and other emerging approaches to development and management of software. fn|88 According to Butler Group, organizations are using ALM to improve the way that they manage and deploy IT development projects. fn|89As SOA development becomes more prevalent, Aldon is expected to increasingly align its offering with that capability. According to IDC, Aldon’s metadata repository, emerging business process and workflow positions the company for support of change management within SOA development environments. fn|90 According to a recent Aberdeen Group brief, having an application lifecycle management (ALM) solution in place before attempting an SOA implementation will be important. The same March 2007 report found that best-in-class companies recognize that SOA projects fail due to obsolescent testing tools and processes. The solution, according to the report, is for the enterprise to buy software tools specifically designed for the SOA lifecycle. fn|91

Aldon’s key market drivers today include: the increasing complexity of software development environments; the need for speed of application delivery and quality; the need for process management and integration with requirements management. fn|92Aldon’s more than 1,300 customers include AIG, Banner Health, El Dorado Hotel & Casino, EON Bank, Kraft Foods, MACSTEEL, MasterBrand, Nintendo, Raiffeisen, TDS Hannover and Unitrin Specialty. fn|93

Notes and references

fnb|1 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|2 Kim Wilsher. Aldon Press Kit: Corporate Backgrounder. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. London, UK. August, 2007.
fnb|3 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|4 Ibid.
fnb|5 Sarah Johansen. Aldon Corporate Fact Sheet. May, 2006.
fnb|6 Sarah Johansen. Aldon Update for IDC. January, 2006. As presented to IDC.
fnb|7 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|8 Timothy Prickett Morgan. Aldon Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn050907-story02.html. IT Jungle. May 9, 2007.
fnb|9 Ibid.
fnb|10 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|11 Ibid.
fnb|12 Ibid.
fnb|13 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. Interview with Daniel Magid. August 16, 2007.
fnb|14 Ibid.
fnb|15 Ibid.
fnb|16 Wayne Madden. Celebrating 20 Years Together! Systemi Network. July 1, 2002. (http://www.systeminetwork.com/search/f3/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.searchByKeyword).
fnb|17 Ibid.
fnb|18 Wayne Madden. Celebrating 20 Years Together! Systemi Network. July 1, 2002. (http://www.systeminetwork.com/search/f3/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.searchByKeyword).
fnb|19 Ibid.
fnb|20 Sarah Johansen. Aldon Corporate Fact Sheet. May, 2006.
fnb|21 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. Interview with Daniel Magid. August 16, 2007.
fnb|22 Ibid.
fnb|23 Matthew A. Scholl. Managing Software Development in a Complex World. April 29, 1999. Article written for AS/400 Magazine.
fnb|24 IBM System i. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
fnb|25 Hector Martinez. Tech Insight: Good Ideas Whose Time Has Come. (http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh020904-story04.html) Volume 13, Number 6 -- February 9, 2004.
fnb|26 Ibid.
fnb|27 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. August 16, 2007.
fnb|28 Ibid.
fnb|29 Ibid.
fnb|30 Hector Martinez. Tech Insight: Good Ideas Whose Time Has Come. (http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh020904-story04.html) Volume 13, Number 6 -- February 9, 2004.
fnb|31 Ibid.
fnb|32 Ibid.
fnb|33 Ibid.
fnb|34 Wayne Madden. Celebrating 20 Years Together! Systemi Network. July 1, 2002. (http://www.systeminetwork.com/search/f3/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.searchByKeyword).
fnb|35 Microsoft TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496993.aspx ). May 31, 2006. UNIX App Migration Guide: Ch1, Functional Comparison of UNIX and Windows. Retrieved on August 21, 2007.
fnb|36 Matthew A. Scholl. Managing Software Development in a Complex World. April 29, 1999. Article written for AS/400 Magazine.
fnb|37 Ibid.
fnb|38 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. August 16, 2007.
fnb|39 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. August 16, 2007.
fnb|40 Christy White. Key Events in Aldon’s History. August 16, 2007.
fnb|41 Mary Lou Roberts. iSeries ISVs Make Big Investments in Regulatory Compliance. July 11, 2005. (http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh071105-story03.html.) The Four Hundred: iSeries and AS/400 Insight. Volume 17, Number 27.
fnb|42 Alex Woodie. 2005: A SOX Auditor's Odyssey. http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs012505-story01.html. Volume 5, Number 4 -- January 25, 2005.
fnb|43 Alex Woodie. Cabinet Maker Finds a Silver Lining in SOX. June 20, 2006. Four Hundred Stuff: Hardware, Software, and Services. Volume 6, Number 25. http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs062006-story02.html.
fnb|44 Mary Lou Roberts. iSeries ISVs Make Big Investments in Regulatory Compliance. July 11, 2005. (http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh071105-story03.html.) The Four Hundred: iSeries and AS/400 Insight. Volume 17, Number 27.
fnb|45 Ibid.
fnb|46 Ibid.
fnb|47 Daniel Magid. Debunking the Myths of SOA. (http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/w/1001/n/5031/i/5801/a/52698/index.html. June 08, 2006. Systemi Network.
fnb|48 Daryl Plummer, Michael Blechar. Application Development on Service-Oriented Software Platforms. Gartner, #SPG9_911, 4/07, AE.
fnb|49 Ibid.
fnb|50 Ibid.
fnb|51 Yvonne Genovese. Most Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture for Business Applications Are Longer Term. February 9, 2006. Gartner, #G00137562.
fnb|52 No byline offered. Change management grows up. SolutionsArchitect: Bridging IT and Business. March 8, 2005. (http://www.solutionsarchitect.co.uk/articles/change.html).
fnb|53 Larry Perlstein. The Adoption of Distributed Computing. (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument.) June 30, 1999.
fnb|54 Distributed computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 11 August 2007.
fnb|55 Alex Woodie. Aldon Opens Up to AIX and Linux with Lifecycle Manager 5.0. (http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug022405-story03.html.) Volume 2, Number 8 -- February 24, 2005.
fnb|56 Aldon Announces Aldon Lifecycle Manager 5.0. Intelligent Enterprise. (http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers/ent_dev/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161601133.) April 26, 2005.
fnb|57 Business Wire. Aldon Year End Marks Success of Multi-Platform Change Management Market; Company Sees Strong Enterprise Growth, Fortune 100 Adoption, SOX Impact, IT Business Process Demand. (http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-4226745_ITM) May 16, 2005.
fnb|58 Melinda-Carol Ballou. Worldwide Software Change and Configuration Management 2005 Vendor Shares. December, 2006. IDC #204821.
fnb|59 Alex Woodie. Aldon Tackles Parallel Development Problems with LMi 7.5. (http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs041007-story01.html.) April 10, 2007.
fnb|60 David Sims. CRM and Relationship Management Software News - OmniTI, Mimosa, Aldon, WebTrends. (http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2006/03/14/1456258.htm, TMCnet.: on the web. March 14, 2006.
fnb|61 Ibid.
fnb|62 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|63 Aldon Redefines Solution Suite for Enterprise Change Management with New Brand Identity. Aldon Computer Group Also Changes Company Name to Aldon. Press release. May 7, 2004.
fnb|64 Ibid.
fnb|65 Alex Woodie. Aldon Joins Microsoft's Midrange Alliance Program. (http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs012307-story07.html). January 23, 2007. Four Hundred Stuff: Hardware, Software, and Services. Volume 7, Number 3.
fnb|66 Ibid.
fnb|67 Timothy Prickett Morgan. Aldon Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn050907-story02.html. IT Jungle. May 9, 2007.
fnb|68 Timothy Prickett Morgan. Aldon Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn050907-story02.html. IT Jungle. May 9, 2007.
fnb|69 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|70 Ibid.
fnb|71 Corporate Partners page. (http://www.aldon.com/corporate/partners/).
fnb|72 Eclipse Tracker: Tracking the Evolution of the Project. Eclipse Foundation Welcomes Aldon; Aldon Change Management Plug-ins Enhance IDE Reach for Eclipse Users. http://eclipsetracker.blogspot.com/2004/12/eclipse-foundation-welcomes-aldon.html. December 03, 2004.
fnb|73 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.
fnb|74 David Rubinstein. No More Change for Change’s Sake: Aldon tool empowers businesses to prioritize incident requests. (http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20051215-12.html). SD Times, December 15, 2005. Retrieved on August 16, 2007.
fnb|75 Ibid.
fnb|76 Ibid.
fnb|77 Ibid.
fnb|78 Melinda-Carol Ballou. Worldwide Software Change and Configuration Management 2005 Vendor Shares. December, 2006. IDC #204821.
fnb|79 Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Roy W. Schulte, Kimihiko Iijima. Predicts 2007: SOA Advances. Gartner #G00144445.
fnb|80 Mark McDonald, Tina Nunno, Gartner EXP Research Team. Creating Enterprise Leverage: The 2007 CIO Agenda. January, 2007. Gartner.
fnb|81 Ibid.
fnb|82 Carol Baroudi, Rick Saia, Peter S. Kastner. New Wine in Old Skins? New SOA Development Falters with Inadequate Testing and Lifecycle Tools. Aberdeen Group. March 2007.
fnb|83 Ibid.
fnb|84 Ibid.
fnb|85 Ibid.
fnb|86 Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Roy W. Schulte, Kimihiko Iijima. Predicts 2007: SOA Advances. Gartner #G00144445.
fnb|87 Kris Brittain, Jim Duggan. Change Management Battles Complexity: Linking Development and Deployment. May, 2005. Gartner, #32F, SPG7, 5/05, AE.
fnb|88 Melinda-Carol Ballou. Worldwide Software Change and Configuration Management 2005 Vendor Shares. December, 2006. IDC #204821.
fnb|89 Ibid.
fnb|90 Ibid.
fnb|91 Ibid.
fnb|92 Ibid.
fnb|93 Andy Kellett. The Aldon Suite: Technology Audit. Butler Group. April, 2007. Reference Code: TA001225ADT.

ee also

* List of revision control software
* Comparison of revision control software
* Collaborative development environment
* Application Lifecycle Management
* Revision Control

External links

* http://www.aldon.com