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Application Lifecycle
Management
Power of an Integrated Environment
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Confused?
• Changing Requirement
• Distributed Teams
• No Visibility
• No Predictability
• Uncontrolled Process
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Four Pillars of ALM
• Collaboration
– Working on same source of information
– Real-time collaboration of stakeholders
– Elimination of manual handoffs
• Process
– Central workflow governing all activities of life cycle from ideation to
implementation
• Tracking
– Visibility and Traceability of data across all tools of the eco-system
– Real-time visibility of the progress, thus increasing release predictability
• Quality Control
– Quality built-in at every stage
– Continuous testing throughout the life cycle
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Orchestration of the Four Pillars By Kovair
• 100% Web based catering to different
time zones
• Real-time collaborative platform
• Task based graphically configurable
workflow
• SOA based ESB capable of integrating
any tool
• Support for cross tool data traceability
• Real-time data reporting
• Role based dashboard with drill down
capability
• Flexible codeless configuration
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Kovair Task Based Configurable Workflow
• Allows configuring your working process instead of imposing any built-in
configuration
• Eliminates manual handoff with combination of tasks and notifications
• Supports Cross tool processes
• Web based visual drag & drop designer
• Task based workflow for multiple parallel processes-as opposed to State
based workflow
• Multiple Independent processes for different functions
• Conditional Branching
• Provision for defining Process Variables
• Support for both Macro and Micro level processes
15. Kovair Cross Tool Traceability
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• Supports bidirectional cross tool end-to-end traceability
• Helps in doing both proactive and reactive impact analysis of a change
• Helps tracking of different entities real-time to ensure quality
• Allows defining relationship between artifacts in your own way
• Supports defining attributes specific to relations
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Kovair Reporting
• Provides built-in graphical and textual reports in Word, Excel, PDF, Crystal
formats and dashboards with real-time drilldown data access
• Role based relevant dashboards for tracking progress
• Configurable KPIs as per organizational needs
• Capability of rolling up project metrics data to Portfolio level
• Capability of generating documents for different standards compliance
18. Phases of ALM – Project Management
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• Project Management
– Provides ability to schedule resources as per work load
– Facilitates a comprehensive scheduler for project planning
– Allows generation of Earned Value Management metrics
– Enables real-time monitoring of planned vs actual data
– Provides Integration with MS-Project and Outlook
– Enables users to view the project calendar and track the progress
• Task Management
– Gives visibility to the users on their pending tasks
– Provides capability of entering timesheets against tasks
– Allows maintenance of different types of task as per business needs
• Time Management
– Allows users to book their time entry
– Allows approval or rejection of timesheets
– Provides the capability of rolling up of time data to project level for time and
cost monitoring
19. Phases of ALM – Requirements Management
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• Provides multiple mechanisms to gather Requirements
– Direct Entry
– Email
– Integration with other tools and Outlook
– From corporate website
– Import from Word or Excel
• Facilitates collaborative review of requirements
• Allows reusing of Requirements and its related artifacts without
copy/paste
• Provides in-built modeling capability
• Supports bi-directional traceability with proactive and reactive
impact analysis
• Enables users to generate custom templates based PRD/MRD/SRS
documents
• Support for versioning – Creation, Viewing Differences, Merging
• Allows users to know the Who, When and What of changes
• Supports Baseline
• Formatted output to Word, Excel, PDF
20. Phases of ALM – Test Management
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• Allows creation and managing of Test Cases
• Imports Test Cases from Excel
• Facilitates Test Cases approval in collaborative manner
• Supports reusing a Test Case as part of another Test Case
• Allows managing both manual and automated tests
• Manages multiple versions of test runs for each Test Case
• Automates test scheduling and running Test Cases in
batches
• Automates defect capturing from failed Test Cases
• Seamless bi-directional integration with HP QC, QTP, RQM,
RFT, MTM, Selenium, RTRT & Test Link
• Reflects results of automated scripts executed in tools like
QTP & Selenium
• Provides Real time reports and dashboards reflecting status
of test cases
• Provides traceability with other artifacts of ALM
21. Phases of ALM – Defect Management
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• Allows real-time defect monitoring thus increasing
predictability on quality
• Provides multiple methods to capture defects
• Allows establishment of traceability with other artifacts
• Enables users to prioritize defects for resolution
• Allows escalation based on defect ageing
• Allows automatic creation of defects from failed test cases
• Provides Bi-directional integration with JIRA, Bugzilla, TFS,
RTC, Clear quest
22. Integrated Pieces of Kovair ALM
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• Development Management
– Provides Bi-directional integration with Eclipse, VSTS Developer, RAD
– Provides Plug-ins for Eclipse , VSTS, RAD to view artifacts in other tools
– Allows establishing traceability with other artifacts
– Facilitates sending of notifications on pending items
– Enables creation of cross tool relationships from the IDE
• Source Control Management
– Provides Bi-directional integration with Perforce, SVN, TFS, Clear Case,
Git, and Gerrit
– Allows viewing the content of the files through federated link
– Allows establishing traceability with other artifacts
• Build Management
– Provides Bi-directional integration with ANT, MS Build, Hudson, Team
City
– Allows invoking automated builds
– Enables capturing of build results and relating it with release
23. Kovair Omnibus – The Integration Platform
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Supports
Synchronization
and Federation
of data
Supports “Linking and Syncing”.
Value Add
beyond data
plumbing
capabilities
Process, Traceability, Project & Resource
Management , Analytics & Reports
Advanced
Features
Robust Reliability Mechanisms
Unique ability to Sync and Link
Reuse Integration Templates
Ability to Define Processes Spanning across Multiple Tools
Multi-tool Routing
Enables non-OSLC Compatible Tools to act like OSLC
Providers
Integration of Attachments, Comments, Rich Text
Synchronization of Relations
Powerful Plug-ins for IDEs
Ability to Define Cross Tool Relations
Data Transformation as an integral part - configurable
Manage Integration Rules independent of Adapter – No rules
hardcoded, easy changes
Support for Load balancing
Real-time Monitoring of data routing
Notify users on any transaction failure for easy
troubleshooting
Web based mouse click configurability
Built-in data validation mechanism
25. Kovair Omnibus – Current Set of Integrations
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