Some of its solutions include Computer Aided Design (CAD), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM).

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This "application lifecycle management"--or ALM--approach reflects the ways in which software has entered more parts of the company over the past decade, and how non-IT managers must also take on software-project responsibilities.

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