Understanding the Significance of an Integrated ALM
Although you may have purchased the best tools money can buy to make your development process more effective, they may not be talking to each other. This could lead to tremendous problems as every group works in isolation. You will not have a consolidated picture of the complete development project, but only the pieces of the puzzle. To avoid this, integration of tools becomes absolutely essential. By integrating your application lifecycle management tools you can not only view artifacts managed by one tool from another tool, but also automate processes cutting across the tool boundaries. Integration also helps in creating various impacting and non-impacting traceability relation, creating cross tools Analytics, Metrics and Dashboards and actionable intelligence. Lack of reliable data is no more a blind spot for project and resource management across the tools.
Understanding the significance of an integrated ALM
A cost-effective, flexible and user-friendly integrated ALM does away with complex and costly tools integrations, and overcomes the limitations of the existing point-to-point and single-vendor tools integrations. By providing a lot of advantages, the integrated ALM has immense significance.
- An integrated ALM considerably simplifies development
As an efficient integrated ALM is based on the ESB architecture, there is a reduction in the number of tools and the pair of integrations between the tools.
- An integrated ALM secures investments
The familiarity of people using these tools is also protected from an investment perspective as the tool investments by a development organization are enhanced with integrations and the training. The ALM middleware can integrate tools from different vendors without any particular prerequisite on the tools.
- An integrated ALM facilitates multiple third party tools from various vendors
An integrated ALM allows the best breed of tools for the best functions. As it supports concurrent usage of several tools from several vendors in a single tool ecosystem, the organizations are allowed to select best-of-breed tools available in the market.
- An integrated ALM allows creation and management of business rules
There is flexibility in the integration of business rules as unlike point-to-point and single-vendor integrations where the logic is hard coded in the integration codes, middleware adapters do not
have any hard coded embedded business rules and are easily configurable.
- An integrated ALM permits managing Traceability between artifacts from multiple tools.
An integration bus technology permits creating and managing Traceability relationships between artifacts from various tools, unlike a point to point integration, where only two tools are integrated at a time. A supple omnibus technology promotes multi-tool proactive and reactive Change impact analysis.
With an ability to integrate multiple tools on the bus for the entire development & IT Lifecycle, an efficient application lifecycle management solution supports a two-way synchronization and federation and a comprehensive and user-friendly Web inter
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