Integration can enhance your ALM ecosystem
CIO’s often struggle with queries of how to manage a project across diverse geographies, technologies that exist among different groups? How to ensure that these groups work together with their set of tools together? How does one tie all this together with the actual information island? The answer is simple; integration of these processes! Therefore all that needs to be done is integrate and automate processes across these tools. But is it as easy as it sounds? The answer is slightly complex, to grasp its complexities you need to comprehend why disparate tools can create problems for you. These problems include
- Unnecessary and inconsistent information
Disparate tools could end up providing you with redundant information and are replete with errors.
- Disparate processes
Disparate tools often result in disparate processes that have no links of any kind between them, which means they are unlikely to be in sync with each other.
- Zero ability to trace information between individual tools
Owing to such disparate tools, information traces between such tools will be non-existent.
- Resorting to manual consolidated reporting
Difficulties in developing consolidated reports owing to issues in tracking information in disparate tools necessarily requires one to actually manually create consolidated reports.
- Zero visibility
With information locked in disparate tools especially when it’s used by a specific group, others in the organization will not be able to view the results.
Advantages of Integration between tools
Integration bus allocates easy multi-tool integration owing to its unique bus architecture. Additionally it offers cost savings and also ensures greater advantages especially to your Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem. With the right kind of integration there would be
- Two way synchronization between multiples tools including multiple requirements management tools
- Meaningful integration between items as well allowing only the approved requirements to be replicated from the requirement management tool
Getting disparate tools such as IDE, configuration management, build management etc to work in an integrated manner is very important. Such integration requires a proper process or else it can lead to failure. ALM support can be established properly only when these integration processes are put in place properly. The only panacea to all integration related problems is to define, implement, automate and enforce processes using state of the art process automation tools. Only when your integration process is in order you’re your ALM ecosystem actually work, ensuring complete success for your development project.
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