The New Age Application Lifecycle Management Solutions
The term Application Lifecycle Management has gained a great amount of prominence in the business sphere. It refers to the process of managing, integrating and co-coordinating numerous levels in a software delivery process. Right from the development phase to the deployment level ALM, comprise of a set of procedures and tools that consists of definition, testing, designing, deployment, development as well as management. Finally, in a entire ALM procedure every stage is closely administered and controlled.
Application Lifecycle Management, comes with a well-defined set of ALM tools. They are listed below-
1. Multi-vendor Best of Breed Integrated ALM Tools
2. Point-to-point Integrated Multi Vendor Tools
3. ingle Vendor Integrated ALM Tools
Services offered by ALM Solutions
Today there are key market players that provide ALM studios that in turn deal in ALM solutions catering to various aspects from requirement capture phase to product release. There are other group members, such as customers, analysts, software architects, designers that share within them the deliverables and assignment goals. This is then collaborated worldwide. Other features of ALM are as follows:-
1. Solutions are 100 percent Web based – Users can access a web architected grounds-up framework through eminent browses for instance, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and many others
2. There are Multiple input methods that enables users to capture any requirements through the following methods – Sending them by Email, Import them from Microsoft Word Document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, or a CSV file with a configurable format, Submitting inputs from a corporate portal or website or from any third party tools in real-time
3. Entity Relations – Traceability is a common feature in a Requirement Management tool, ALM solution has expanded the concept of the Traceability Relations and has made it a core feature for its built-in applications
4. IT Process Automation – ALM solutions along with its in-built workflow engine assists in total IT process automation of the in-built application
Furthermore, adding on to all these ALM solutions are capable of creating documents and reports of various types with the use of multiple reporting tools for instance :-
1. HTML, allowing direct printing from the application
2. Export any lists to Excel for additional formatting and manipulation
3. In-built Crystal Reports that provide simple means to perform custom formatting
4. Word Reporting leads to fully personalized formatting with multi-level data elements
5. Dashboard Report with updates information from the system for reporting any aspect of the project that comprises the overall Project Health or Process Indices Report with Graphical, Tabular and Chart formats
Innovative ALM solutions allow end users to incorporate the software delivery process as per their requirements.
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