The animal health industry in 2020 is experiencing a tectonic shift. While still feeling the lingering effects of the African Swine Fever virus, the industry is now faced with the personal and professional impact of a global COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a societal awakening in light of recent events in the United States, leading to the Black Lives Matter movement. The result has been an unprecedented level of accelerated change within the industry, leading to new directions and scenarios that we have outlined in this report.

The application lifecycle management (ALM) solution market has evolved considerably since it first emerged as a distinct software suite of capabilities some two decades ago. The topic addresses the need to manage the software development lifecycle, and for non-trivial projects or product development that needs to scale across dimensions of technology complexity on one hand and numbers of developers on the other – up to multiple teams spread geographically with hundreds and possibly thousands of developers.