Atlassian Software, developer of popular collaborative software platforms JIRA and Confluence, has been named a leader in driving the application development life cycle management (ALDM) market to evolve and expand.

Each year, Gartner develops a quadrant of software developers in a variety of categories. This year's ALDM companies included heavyweights such as IBM, Microsoft and HP. Companies abilities to execute and completeness of vision in the ALDM space earn them a place in one of the quadrants. Gartner uses online surveys of customers of the included vendors as well as market indicators to develop their rankings.

Gartner has the following to say on Atlassian:

We have rated Atlassian as a Leader that has strong market momentum and acceptance. The vendor's JIRA product appears as one of the most frequently deployed tools in Gartner surveys and client interactions. It has broad adoption for issue management, with strong growth in project tracking. Atlassian has a solid investment in agile and support of collaborative development. The vendor has breadth across the life cycle, from planning to continuous integration. The products support a market-leading number of languages and have proven scale in deployments of more than 20,000 users.

The application development life cycle management quadrant declared November 2013 was as follows: