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Application LifecycleManagement
Power of an Integrated Environment
Kovair Marketing
What Organizations Want?
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Confused?
• Changing Requirement
• Distributed Teams
• No Visibility
• No Predictability
• Uncontrolled Process
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Life of Siloes
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Results In Failure
Key to Success
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Four Pillars of ALM
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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 Integrated ALM Offering
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Connecting the Teams Together
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Kovair Task Based Configurable Workflow
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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
Kovair Cross Tool Traceability
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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
Kovair Reporting
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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
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
Phases of ALM – Requirements Management
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• Provides multiple mechanisms to gather Requirements
– Direct Entry
– 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
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
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
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
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
Omnibus Architecture
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Kovair Omnibus – Current Set of Integrations
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