Multi-tool Integration- An Imperative For Your Alm Ecosystem

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Managing software development projects a number of functionally, geographically and technologically distributed is a difficult task. It is always a cumbersome process to control and manage information creation and flow when multiple groups at different locations using different tools are involved without a process.

Integration without a process and process without automation is always bound to result in a failure.

Unconnected tools often result in manually consolidating different change requests in different tools. This tends to be tedious, error prone and is very rarely done in a reliable manner. With a lack of process across tools, there is almost always no integration and synchronization with each other. And this also results in all the information being locked in an individual tool, specially used by one particular group. To avoid all these problems, the best solution is to define, implement, automate and enforce processes using state of the art process automation tools.

Advantages of a Multi-Tool Integration

An Integration bus technology allows a multi-tool integration in bus architecture. ...
... It also offers a significant savings in integration effort. With an integration tool, there is always a two way synchronization between two tools, and this keeps all the information up-to-date in both the tools. Synchronization of data is just the starting point of any meaningful integration. A bigger value is gained by synchronization of the relations among these data, and this way there is not just a synchronization of data but there is also a synchronization of all the relations among the data.

Process Enabling Integrated Tools

Process enabling a myriad of tools that do not have a built-in process engine can be difficult. This may have been an impossible feat earlier but with integration bus technology there is fruitful and interesting integrations within a single framework. An integration bus technology enables the ability to map between objects in the integration bus and the external tools, including attributes, methods and policies. The technology also has to have the ability to create processes for different workflows and also allow it to be friendly work with tools running anywhere and on any technology platform.

Invest in the right solution helps in creating a bridge between various tools used by both Development and IT groups. It helps customers in standalone function specific tools such as Service Requirements Management or Issues Management with the built in process capabilities as well as with its Omnibus Integration bus to integrate various third party tools both in ALM and IT Service Management Solution.

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