Software Assessment Audit

“We are now at the dawn of the Fourth Transformation. It will move technology from what we carry to what we wear.”

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

authors of The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything

How well software is managed within a company is often a quick and decisive measure to understand if the company has a competitive advantage via accesses to information. A company that leverages software is often a company that is able to access accurate and timely information.

Marc Andreessen, in his now famous essay Why Software Is Eating The World, stated:

“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software…” In fact, name any significant, successful, dynamic business today, and it will likely have a strong Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). What does it mean to have a strong ALM aspect of the business? The SAA follows a process that can look into the deep and dark secrets of how software within the company is defined, managed, and maintained.