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What is product lifecycle management? Organizing the development process

CIO Business Intelligence

Virtual environments that support global operations: A central product data management (PDM) repository integrates the entire global process from concept to customer. While product development can be described in many ways, SAP says the typical product development cycle consists of five phases. Software Development

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Perforce Software buys Puppet. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet. Perforce already owns development tools such as Helix and the testing tools, including Perfecto and BlazeMeter.