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]

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]

Dear Readers: After July, we have not updated you on this page due to several reasons but the primary one being that I have had extensive travel schedules and have not been able to devote the time to write on topics that would interest you.  Many things have happened at Kovair in 2010 and for that I refer you to please read our newsletter for December 2010 that has just been published and is accessible on our website www.kovair.com  at the bottom right of the Home page. In this blog, instead of writing something myself, I would like to provide a link to an interview of mine that was conducted by Samad Aidane of Guerilla Project Management www.Guerillaprojectmanagement.com.  In this interview Samad focused on questions about how Kovair executed a very large 14 tools integration project for Applications Lifecycle Management – ALM at a very large Global IT Services Company that is now in production with about 6,000 developers working from at least four different loc... [More]

  Today, we take great pleasure in announcing the Kovair ALM Studio Product that contains a single data repository package of key applications that include Requirements, Test, Issues, Risk and Release Management along with Project Management capabilities; all of them linked to each other through the Kovair single data repository along with Kovair’s Omniprocess work flow engine orchestrating the desired configurable process for the development life cycle of any applications development project. These core tools from Kovair for any application development effort are further integrated with modeling tools (the Rational Software Modeler, the Visual Studio Team System Architect) the desired IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio and the Rational Applications Developer), the automatic test tools (HP Quick Test Pro, the Rational Functional Tester) and the Configuration Management Systems (Subversion, Perforce, Clearcase and Microsoft TFS) with integration adapters built around t... [More]

On Thursday May 20, Kovair participated in the on line expo organized by Ganthead Publications www.gantthead.com  which they brand as PMXPO for Project Management Professionals. Several on line Expos are being organized by many media companies such as CM Crossroads www.CMCrossroads.com  (where we have participated in the ALM Expo), Tech Target and others that are drawing attendees in the thousands.  This one had more than 9,000 registrations and over 4,600 attendees.  Kovair had about 20% of the total attendees come to our booth.  This is a very efficient and cost effective way to organize Trade Shows where one attends a virtual booth on line and conducts an on line chat with the booth attendants and watches videos or demos for the products and down loads pertinent literature and papers of one’s interest.  Kovair had more than 500 downloads of various white papers, case studies and product data sheets from our booth and even though it may ... [More]

Early in April, we took a Spring break with the family as I had not taken a break in quite some time.  It was nice to get away to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park and California’s Death Valley – some would wonder why there?  In the midst of all the enjoyment of still a bit chilly weather at the elevation of the Grand Canyon, we hiked down the Grand Canyon about half way down and back for the first time! The weather was beautiful otherwise and the colors at all three locations in their own way were outstanding! The Zion National Park where you actually are driving and walking at the bottom of the canyon is not as talked about as some of the other attractions.  A comparison with the Yosemite Valley would be that Zion has much more colorful sand stones carved by nature when viewed from the valley compared to Yosemite’s granite like grey rocks. Death Valley was wonderful at this time of the year while it could be unbearable in the mid summer... [More]

Greetings! We just completed the first month of the new  year and completed our first webinar of the year earlier last week on the topic, “Citizen Developer on the Cloud” conducted by our CTO Sky Basu and Kovair Director for Kovair Australasia, Ravi Gadhia.  It was a very successful webinar and the recorded version is being placed on the Kovair Website www.kovair.com for those of you who wish to review it for further interest in this domain of Platform as a Service or PaaS where the Kovair Platform can be used by non technical and non software developer type business users to create their own applications with mouse click configurations on the cloud or on corporate data centers.  Kovair facilitates this type of usage on the SaaS infrastructure as well. January also saw Kovair’s participation in Infocomm at Kolkata India, the largest show of its kind in eastern India where we show cased our Kovair Global Lifecycle Product offerings. Kovair is participa... [More]

For my first entry in the new year, let me wish all of you a very happy, successful and healthy new year!  Hope you had a great holiday season and are now back in the swing of things to succeed in 2010.  All signs point to a much better year economically than what we have witnessed over the last year and a half!  Let us hope for the best. I will be very brief today and will cover just one topic that forms the header of this blog. I am very excited to inform you that Kovair is making a deeper commitment to the domain of  ITSM solutions besides its well integrated ALM offering and will participate as a first time exhibitor at the 14th Annual Pink Elephant Conference and Exhibition at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas from February 21 -24.  We will show case our comprehensive ITSM solution at the show booth #514 with live demos and talk about how Kovair can differentiate itself  well from some of the incumbent vendors in this domain with two of its key capabil... [More]

Kovair as an Applications Platform on the Cloud For this last blog, before we say good bye to the year 2009 which has been a very good year for Kovair, I would like to focus on the use of “Kovair as a Platform on the Cloud” which simply put means that users configure their desired applications using Kovair as a Platform to create them with mouse clicks(no coding) using the Kovair Configurable Application Entities and use as required both the workflow capabilities of the Kovair Omniprocess engine and the Omnibus Enterprise Integration Bus for integrating third party applications for such implementations. Kovair in the last few months has had four such applications configuration examples in the Australian market and we would like all our readers to share in those successes and learn from them.  Let me list them very briefly below.  For any questions, please feel free to email to us at Marketing@Kovair.com and we would love to respond to you promptly. UrbanTrans i... [More]

Greetings from Silicon Valley and hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving holiday and indulged in good shopping, if nothing else for the sake of the US economy and some new jobs! Eclipse Plug-in From Kovair:On the Kovair front, a few interesting things are worthy of note in this blog posting. We mentioned in one of our earlier posts about the completion of our Eclipse Plug-in for the Kovair Omnibus that will allow all Java developers using the Eclipse IDE environment to get connected with many other aspects of the ALM such as Requirements Management, Test Management and Release Management through the Kovair Platform without leaving their preferred IDE environment.  We have just completed a White Paper on this topic that will be added to our website in the next 2-3 days.  Please visit www.kovair.com and download this paper from the Collateral section of the website.  We think this is a very positive development for all Java developers to connect to the rest of the Applicat... [More]