Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools

Application Lifecycle Management

What is Application Lifecycle Management Tools?

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management.

Common Features

  • Analytics and Reporting
  • ALM Integration
  • Traceability
  • Artifact Management
  • Agile Work Management
  • Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt
  • Managed Artifact Repository
  • Workflow Management
  • Visual Analysis Design
  • Automation
  • Resource Planning

Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools

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Top Application Lifecycle Management Tools 2025

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Polarion ALM

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Respectful

Visure is a trusted specialized Requirements ALM partner for companies of all sizes across safety and business-critical industries. Visure offers specialized, innovative and user-friendly platform covering Requirements Management, Risk Management, Test Management, Bug Tracking, Traceability, Reporting and Standard Compliance, aimed to guarantee the highest quality in product development.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

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TrackPlus

TrackPlus

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Track+ ALM provides one single, intuitive interface for all your software development processes from requirements management up to release management so you can stay productive.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy

SmarteQM seamlessly integrates all these priorities, optimizing the experience of Integrated Application Lifecycle Management, or Integrated ALM; all the tools and users are synchronized with each other throughout the application development stages.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Keep all of your early-stage definition artifacts — user stories, requirements, mockups, wireframes, prototypes, process flows — coordinated and in sync. Integrate these early-stage artifacts with the larger ALM process: development, issue tracking, testing and devops. This allows information to flow throughout the full software lifecycle.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features

Kovair ALM Studio along with its integration capability provides a cohesive solution for end-to-end application lifecycle management from conception to delivery. One can use Kovair ALM Studio as a platform for creating custom business solutions or as a pre-configured, ready-to-use ALM solution.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Core ALM

Core ALM

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

CoreALM works hand in hand with SAP Solution Manager and other highly integrated third party tools based on ITIL best practices. They provide professional consulting solutions for companies. Specializing in Application Lifecycle Management for SAP clients, CoreALM uses the latest SAP Solution Manager capabilities for an expertise in the implementation of toolsets and processes.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Fair

Pulse Private Label is a powerful, yet easy-to-use technology that is taking the field of ALM to a new level with its software management and distribution.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies
  • Leverages Incumbent Status

DevSuite is an ALM platform specifically designed to manage hybrid agile projects as well as pure agile and traditional development projects.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Akana's (formerly SOA Software) Lifecycle Manager enables enterprises to effectively collaborate between business, developers and IT operations, resulting in rapid development and deployment cycles while increasing reliability, stability and availability of their APIs and supporting assets.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy