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WEBINAR: Implement End-to-End ALM/SDLC from Customer Request to Delivery with the Omnibus Integration Platform, May 23, 2012, 5:00 pm (IST) / 12:30 pm (BST) / 1:30 pm Germany (CEST) CLICK Here to Join. Presenters: Atanu Majumdar, VP,  Products & Technology, Kovair; Sky Basu, VP, Product Solutions, Kovair.   In this webinar, key learning areas would be:    Why do we need integrated tools? What are the problems of point-to-point integrations? What is the Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform? What are the benefits of integration using the Kovair Omnibus? How does it actually work? – live demonstration of multiple integrations   This webinar is for those who think that a reasonable solution to this problem is impossible! Kovair’s Omnibus Integration Platform can integrate a wide range of multi-vendor tools seamlessly and it is available today for any size of organization.  In the webinar, a complete end-to... [More]

Requirements Management at Medha Servo Drives for High Reliability Systems This case study focuses on Kovair Software’s implementation of a robust Requirements Management solution at Medha Servo Drives, a railway locomotive controls design and manufacturing company with a vision to become a world leader in these products.Kovair’s Requirements Management solution, which is 100% Web-based, provides a rich and configurable, global platform for capturing a set of requirements, collaborating on their development and tracing implementation back to specs.                                                             Project Traceability ViewClick here to download the case study. 

  Dear Readers: After a few months of not publishing the newsletters, Kovair is back at it again to update you on some of the important developments in our product offerings that would be of interest to you. However, instead of trying to publish it every month, we will publish it on a quarterly basis.  The most important announcement in this newsletter is on the subject of IBM Rational supported OSLC ALM tools to multiple third party popular tools through the Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform.  A URL of the Press Release from Kovair on this topic is included here.Since our last newsletter, we have made considerable progress on releasing several integration adapters/connectors for several third party vendor tools and please visitwww.Kovair.com for further updates on this.Please enjoy this newsletter and as always we very much appreciate your comments and criticism.  Keep them coming!   Sincerely,Bipin A. ShahChairman & CEO &nb... [More]

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 11, 2011) - Kovair Software -- www.Kovair.com, today announced that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently procured additional licenses of the Kovair Requirements Management solution, as part of the USCIS Requirements Improvement Program (RIP). USCIS has been working with Kovair for its RIP process since 2008.   "Owing to the success in improving their Requirements Management Process, USCIS recently awarded Kovair with a contract -- the third award in three years -- for additional Kovair Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Studio licenses and services," announced Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair. "USCIS organization's Requirements Management activities have improved significantly using Kovair's industry leading built-in process capability, user configurability and ability to integrate with other tools in the ALM and IT environment," noted Sky Basu, CTO of Kovair, who worked closely with USCIS and o... [More]

Santa Clara, Calif. Aug 29, 2011: Kovair Software today announced the Release 6.5 update for its ALM Studio and ITSM Studio Products with multiple additional capabilities such as Document Management, Enhanced Test Management, Resource Management, Folder Hierarchy with permissions at all levels and a Service Catalog. Besides these major capability additions, some of the key feature enhancements include simultaneous multiple edits during Requirements reviews, Kovair Omnibus enhancements for synchronization and scheduling event collections, cloning of enhancements, form enhancements and inclusion of Nested Relations Section in the traceability view.   On the occasion, Atanu Majumdar, Vice President of Engineering, Kovair said, “ We believe, with this release, Kovair will gain further market leadership for the comprehensiveness of its solutions both for the ALM and ITSM Studios”.   “We continuously strive to deliver the best features and functional... [More]

Honeywell is Kovair’s new customer as of June 2011, following the successful implementation of a pilot project that demonstrated the capabilities of Kovair’s Requirements Management solution and of Kovair Omnibus Integration Middleware for integrations with third-party tools. In addition, Kovair has implemented the Test Management solution at Honeywell. As part of the project, Kovair created custom templates for capturing requirements, allowing business requirements to be entered with unique requirement tags. These business requirements would then link with the Design Elements and Test Design templates. Besides, a full-fledged process was created as per Honeywell’s requirements, involving the following teams: Business Analysts Stakeholders Development team QA team The following features would be used extensively at Honeywell: Traceability between functional requirements and business requirements.  Versioning to view the version changes for a given... [More]

Integration is one of the major hurdles in achieving the benefits of cloud computing for an enterprise. Integrations between cloud applications and enterprise legacy applications as well as between cloud based applications themselves are the critical elements of success of this strategy. Enterprises have carried out point-to-point integrations between enterprise applications with long and expensive deployment cycles. Kovair's ESB, the Omnibus Integration Middleware offers a code-less implementation of integration among multi-vendor multi-platform multi-location applications over the cloud. The following three steps achieve this without the need for additional services using out-of-the box Adapters/Connectors for popular enterprise applications.   Step 1: Download and install adapters for each application Step 2: Configure the integration process u... [More]

SANTA CLARA, CA and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Jun 30, 2011) - Effective July 1, 2011, Customer Systems International (CSI), an Australia based CRM company with locations in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, have been acquired by Kovair Software, Inc. (Kovair), a Silicon Valley ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and ITSM (IT Services Management) software company to form a new Australian entity, Kovair Pty Ltd which will leverage the strengths, products and workforces of the combined CSI and Kovair entities. "This has been in the making for over 2 years and both CSI and Kovair have enjoyed a great partnership bringing ALM and ITSM to CSI's Australian clients," said Mr. Poh Cheung, COO of CSI, adding, "This seemed to be the natural next step for CSI and I'm glad we have come together to make this happen." "We have been watching the steady growth CSI has had in the Australian market, and now with the combined backing of our US and India operations, CSI and Kovai... [More]

Recently, Kovair successfully completed a POC at a major financial institution that wanted to determine whether Kovair ALM Integration of multiple tools around its Omnibus Middleware works as “advertised”. The following describes the pain point that was addressed by Kovair.This company had an immediate need to integrate the data to and from for the following tools:  CA Clarity, Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Center and Microsoft TFS.  This data includes the following:  Software requirements, test cases linked to these requirements, source code files to track defects, and project management objects.   Ideally, this data needs to seamlessly and quickly flow from one tool to another without manual intervention.  However, at this company, in most cases, this data must be manually re-keyed or manually copied and pasted from one tool to another.  This causes many developers, analysts, managers, to use multiple development tools each in order to... [More]