Understanding the Benefits of ALM Middleware Technology
As there are not many vendors who are able to deliver the promise of a point-to-point integration architecture, it is the ALM Middleware technology that can help achieve an Integrated ALM or End-To-End ALM for a mixed vendor tools environment. There are diverse tools used for managing the development process as also for the actual creation, testing, building and deployment of software codes, in a software development process, typically. While avoiding all issues and pitfalls of point to point and single vendor integrations, the concept of ALM middleware addresses all the Integrated ALM requirements and offers some more benefits.
The middleware technology being based on Enterprise Service Bus , has a few advantages over any point-to-point integration architecture. Application Lifecycle Management Integration Middleware keeps together the various tools that are used throughout the application development lifecycle. With an ALM middleware technology, the benefits are:
* Development is simplified
The middleware technology reduces the number of tools and the number of pair integrations between tools.
* Investments are protected
The ALM Middleware is based on a standard set of web service based APIs and can integrate tools from different vendors, including internally developed tools. This results in the protection of tool investment.
* It permits the right tool for the right function
As ALM Middleware allows integration of multiple tools from different vendors for the same function, it also supports simultaneous usage of multiple tools from multiple vendors in a single tools ecosystem, thereby organizations to select the best tools.
* Allows flexibility of business rules
For numerous reasons integration business rules change over time, which also result in the change in business conditions, group dynamics and development methodologies. The business rules that are managed in middleware administrative module, eliminates the need for development resources for changing the integration codes and decreases the change implementation time significantly from weeks to hours.
* Simplifies the creation of traceability
ALM Middleware simplifies the creation of traceability relation between artifacts from various tools. Due to a central framework, there is a flexibility in creating and managing these relationships among multiple tools which promotes multi-tool proactive and reactive change impact analysis.
* Permits process automation without boundaries
With its built-in process automation capability, ALM Middleware has the unique advantage of creating a cross tools process and automating the same for a transparent no-overhead implementation with a much larger success potential. The entire process is automated for all these users when they are using different tools and from different locations.
* Permits the creation of dashboard metrics
Create all sorts of dashboard metrics and reports for those data in real-time is possible, once ALM Middleware has all the artifacts and meta information about the artifacts. These reports give valuable insight about the whole cross-tool process.
ALM Middleware technology is the leading integration technology in the ALM industry today, this method of ALM Middleware is the most suitable for implementing Integrated ALM in organizations having or needing multiple vendor tools. Unlike point-to-point integrations, middleware adapters do not have any embedded business rules, where the logic is hard coded in the integration codes. ALM solutions such as Middleware permit creation and management of these rules that are independent of the individual tool adapters.
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