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]

DevOps is about bridging the often mutually competitive groups, which have conflicting goals, within an IT organization – developments and IT operations. Whereas the development group aims at implementing functional business requirements on the application side, the operations group is focused on non-functional requirements like performance, stability and availability. Further, the development group is interested in quick releases of more and more functionalities; the operations group, on the other hand, prefers fewer releases in order to minimize disruption in operations. The two groups often fail to appreciate each other’s viewpoints with the business emerging as the ultimate sufferer! DevOps, a new movement among the IT communities, involves both operations and development to address the problem, as explained above. Being a new concept, it is yet to have a concrete definition as it lacks consensus. To some, DevOps is the streamlining of the operational part of the appli... [More]