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]

Among Development teams, HP Quality Center (QC) is a popular test management tool. With built-in integration with Quick Test Pro (QTP) it can manage and execute both manual and automated testing. QC’s support for Requirements and Defects management provides its users with a single point solution for managing Requirements to Test cases and Test cases to Defects Traceability. However, many groups use other development tools for various critical functions like Requisite Pro for requirements management, Jira for defect tracking, Eclipse for coding, ANT for build and Perforce for configuration management. This webinar demonstrates as to how Kovair’s Omnibus Integration Middleware integrates all these tools seamlessly. Viewers will see from the vantage point of each tool user, how an integrated ALM2.0 can be achieved with minimum overhead. In addition, benefits at various levels of development management have been presented for such an integrated ecosystem of multi-vendor to... [More]

Kovair Entity Framework supports several rich field types. Grid field is one of them, extensively used by our customers who love the power and usefulness of this field structure in capturing entity data. Grid field is a composite field structure that allows multi-row data input. Let’s take an example of Requirement Entity where multiple reviewers will review the same set of requirements and approve these individually. Kovair allows you defining a grid field attribute “Review Results” to record the review inputs like Reviewed By, Review Date, Review Decision (Approved/ Discarded), Review Score and Review Comment for each reviewer about each individual requirement. Reviewers can easily open up individual requirement, record their review feedbacks and see others’ responses based on access permissions. When the reviewer needs to review hundreds of requirements at the same time, opening up each requirement separately and capturing review outcome may be tedious, time ... [More]

Kovair Software Inc, and nSolutions Inc, of San Jose, Calif today announced a partnership for enhancing ITSM CMDB automation with nSolutions NOVA product line. This integrated product will provide customers automation of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) compatible IT Service Management with the Kovair ALM Studio with real time visibility and control of the IT infrastructure through NOVA. ITSM automation is the key to cutting operational costs and increasing business service availability. Kovair's ITSM solutions help standardize workflow to increase operational efficiency and enable end-to-end service delivery based on best practice guidelines of ITIL v3. Integration with NOVA, through Kovair's Omnibus Integration Middleware, will allow customers to create a real time repository of their network attached assets, distributed over multiple geographic locations and across multiple organizations and have full visibility and reporting with Kovair's ITSM Studio Product with its global access... [More]

  Integrated ALM today is also known as End-To-End ALM in some vendor literatures and websites. However, fulfilling this promise by various vendors using point-to-point integration architecture has been patchy at best. In this paper, we will focus on a new integration technology – ALM Middleware for achieving an Integrated ALM for a mixed vendor tools environment.In a software development process, various tools are used both for managing the development process as well as for the actual creation, testing, building and deployment of software code. Following is a list of such tools some of which are generic (e.g. Document Management) and some are very specific to software development (e.g. Debugger/ Profiler): Multi-Vendor Best of Breed Integrated ALM Tools by ALM MiddlewareTaking a cue from the integration solutions in other industries, most notably financial software, the concept of Integration Middleware addresses all the requirements of Integrated ALM squarely and brings... [More]