Seamless Integration That Ensures A Sound Alm Ecosystem

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Providing products and services that improve an organizations’ profitability and competitiveness, IT services and IT applications are critical tools. And it is often found that there is no communication between tools within the enterprise. Most organizations use the best of breed tools from multiple vendors, but still there is rarely any kind interconnectivity and data transferability unless point to point integrations are carried out. Developers, usually work in isolation based on their functions, technology, geographic or plant locations, in the product development lifecycle.

Managing disparate tools in any organization can create problems like redundant and unreliable information, dissimilar procedures, inability to trace information between particular tools, lack of transparency, etc. Managers need to deal with the various issues that arise from managing projects across diverse geographies and technologies. They also need to and make sure that these groups work together with their set of tools together.

Integration of these processes is the answer to overcome these problems. All that needs to be done is ...
... to integrate and automate processes across these tools. To ensure seamless integration between the different phases of the development lifecycle, it is necessary to have a single data repository in order to make sure the data for Requirements, test, issues and other ALM entities exist in the same repository.

For an optimum application development environment an organization must necessarily connect multiple lifecycle tools. With proper integration of the application development lifecycle tools, there is an improvement in the quality as there is a reduction in the number of defects due to miscommunication, finding inconsistencies between requirements etc. There is drop in quality issues happening out of changes in requirements, designs and code files with better change management practices.

It is the crucial to understand change dependencies and impacts to optimize quality and the right kind of integration facilitates dual way harmonization between various tools. This includes multiple requirements management tools in addition to significant integration between items that authorizes only the approved requirements to be replicated from the requirement management tool. With an integrated ALM, the existing tools and processes and do not need to retool the current processes or to commit to a particular tool vendor.

It is only when your integration process is in order, that you’re your ALM ecosystem will ensure complete success for your development project. Organizations that have investments in multiple tools can attain outstanding value proposition to increase ROI by providing the capabilities to integrate tools at a relatively low cost, by investing in an efficient cost saving solution. With an application lifecycle management solution there will be better synchronization between IT and the rest of the business to deliver the best competitive edge.

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