Melinda-Carol Ballou

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Current: Melinda-Carol Ballou

Melinda-Carol Ballou

Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

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ServiceNow Accelerates AI Innovation Natively in the Now Platform with the Acquisition of AI Pioneer Element AI

Dec 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS47067220

By: Ritu JyotiProgram Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Research , Global AI Research Lead, David SchubmehlResearch Director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, Shannon KalvarResearch Manager , IT Service Management and Client Virtualization, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

ServiceNow have been rapidly expanding its AI capabilities and footprint organically on the Now Platform and through previous acquisitions of Loom Systems, Passage AI, Attivio, and others. With the announced acquisition of Element AI, Servi...
Asana Adds More Integrations to Streamline Collaboration and the Flow of Work

Nov 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS47039420

By: Wayne KurtzmanResearch Director, Social and Collaboration, Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

To help streamline the flow of work and minimize application switching, Asana (NYSE:ASAN) announced new and improved integrations including those for Atlassian Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. As productivity hinges more on smooth co...
Adobe to Acquire Workfront and Expand Its Platform for Collaboration Across Marketing Teams and Beyond

Nov 2020 | IDC Link | Doc # lcUS47039620

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies, Gerry MurrayResearch Director, Marketing and Sales Technology, Wayne KurtzmanResearch Director, Social and Collaboration

In mid-November, Adobe announced its intention to acquire work management and project and portfolio management (PPM) provider Workfront for $1.5 billion. The acquisition will augment its Adobe Experience Cloud and broadly adopted Adobe Crea...

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Leveraging DevOps Delivery for Rapid Responsiveness and Digital Innovation Moving into the "New Normal"

Jan 2021 | IDC Perspective | Doc # US47148421

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC Perspective looks at adopting DevOps approaches for quality execution and faster deployments. IDC sees organizations seeking to establish effective strategies for coordinated change and quality management as part of their DevOps so...
Establishing Open Source Software Management and Leverage: Media Company Exemplifies OSS Strategy and Benefits

Jan 2021 | IDC Perspective | Doc # US47087920

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC Perspective provides an excellent example of a major multinational information and media company that began its OSS journey around 12 years ago originally (in 2008) and has progressed to consistent organizational process and automa...
Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Software Forecast Update, 2020–2024: Need for PPM Agility Drives Growth

Jan 2021 | Market Forecast | Doc # US47088520

By: Melinda-Carol BallouResearch Director, Agile ALM, Quality & Portfolio Strategies

This IDC study provides a 2020–2024 forecast for the worldwide project and portfolio management software market, which grew 4.5% to $3.9 billion in 2019 with current IDC numbers (compared with growth of 6.7% to $3.7 billion in 2018). We hav...

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Melinda-Carol Ballou

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ServiceNow Accelerates AI Innovation Natively in the Now Platform with the Acquisition of AI Pioneer Element AI

Asana Adds More Integrations to Streamline Collaboration and the Flow of Work

Adobe to Acquire Workfront and Expand Its Platform for Collaboration Across Marketing Teams and Beyond

Leveraging DevOps Delivery for Rapid Responsiveness and Digital Innovation Moving into the "New Normal"

Establishing Open Source Software Management and Leverage: Media Company Exemplifies OSS Strategy and Benefits

Worldwide Project and Portfolio Management Software Forecast Update, 2020–2024: Need for PPM Agility Drives Growth

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