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.

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 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.

Development teams using Microsoft Visual Studio integration and TFS or planning to acquire them often need integrations with other development tools from various vendors like, Requirements Management – Requisite Pro, Test Management - HPQC, Configuration Management - Perforce integration or Subversion. In this webinar, using Kovair’s Omnibus Integration Middleware Technology an actual demonstration of integrated ALM will be shown. The webinar demonstration will include multi-vendor tools integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS. In addition, the unprecedented productivity enhancements of such integrations will be discussed.

The success of IT operations depends on well-defined processes and enforcing them consistently. However, enforcing an IT process manually is tedious and prone to errors. Well-defined and optimally implemented processes help organizations achieve Continual Service Improvements-CSI for various IT service areas such as Service Requests, Incidents, Problems and Change Management.
Learn from Josephine Smith of Northrop Grumman how she and her team implemented ITSM processes at Northrop.
Sky Basu, CTO of Kovair will discuss the success criteria of ITSM processes implemented using Kovair’s industry leading visual process engine, the Omniprocess as an example.

This webinar will discuss and demonstrate the adoption of Agile methodology for ALM. Many ALM tools are constrained to one or possibly two development methodologies and/or frameworks. In the Agile implementation space, although the key concepts are somewhat consistent, the way they are implemented can vary. What is required is an ALM tool that allows for an Agile Team to manage a project or set of projects that can have:
• Agile Developers around the planet working across multiple projects • Deliveries spread across multiple teams • Agile Developers using various tools for managing, developing, testing and reporting across many projects that need to talk to each other • Backlog shared across multiple projects requiring refactoring.

Experience Integrated Application Lifecycle Management with tools like Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Clearcase, Microsoft TFS, Visual Studio, Eclipse and Clarity that will take you on a fully integrated Software Development Life Cycle – SDLC/ALM - from Requirements to Release and many important steps in between! Only Kovair Omnibus Middleware integrations can deliver on this value proposition today.

The recently introduced Kovair ALM Studio product is a very comprehensive single repository web based product for managing requirements, test, issues, risk and release as well as IT Project Management. In this webinar, you will learn how to manage these multiple artifacts in a single tool with a desired process workflow implementation and very comprehensive test implementation. Some integrations with tools such as Quick Test Pro for automated testing will also be demonstrated.

Service Management for Help Desk to Incidence to Problem to Change Management has been traditionally carried out with Enterprise Service Bus at high costs for procurement, continued maintenance and consulting service dollars. New web based multi tenant tools from many companies now offer better and more complete products that are accessible 24X7 globally over the Cloud and are ITILv3 compliant. They provide configurable process workflows for escalation management, better SLA computation capabilities and governance rules that are easy to upgrade or change. So, why not consider a change and better yet, make the change without investing multi thousands of dollars? Adopt the Cloud /SaaS delivery model and get moving in days to this new and extremely cost effective value proposition. Your CFOs will love you for this! We will show you how?

This webinar will discuss how the return on your existing ALM/SDLC tools investments such as Requirements Management, Test Management, Configuration and Release Management can be improved considerably with Service Bus Integrations of these and other point tools. Learn the ten benefits of Integrated or End to End ALM/SDLC that are achieved with the Service integration bus. The webinar will also cover the three methods for achieving integrations and why a positive case can be made for Service Bus Integrations Middleware! Who should attend? Senior developers and systems architects, People in charge of ALM/SDLC tools selections for their organizations, Development and QA Managers and Directors as well as Project Managers for ALM.

This webinar will present how to implement Application Lifecycle Management best practices in Java development using an SOA architecture-based integration Bus and open source tools like the Eclipse IDE, JUNIT for test, ANT for software build and SVN for source code management. The webinar will explain how developers, testers and managers can use their own preferred tools environment to accomplish their primary activities while sharing information and collaborating throughout the software lifecycle phases.

This webinar will review the state of the art in today’s Applications Platforms available on the Cloud. It will explain to business users the various options available to them to quickly develop applications without much help from their IT departments or Development organizations. They will be empowered to chart their own course in creating powerful applications in hours that can run on the corporate or external Cloud infrastructures. A must-attend webinar for anyone who wants to create applications they never thought possible on their own!

IT Service Management is one of the most important functions, in any technology organization, that can result in a huge improvement in terms of how your customers view your services. However, establishing effective IT Service Management can be difficult. Most companies rely upon the ITIL v3 framework for guidance on best practices and how to successfully implement IT Service Management. Please join us for our webinar, "Why Implement ITIL Based IT Service Management?" to learn how you can successfully establish effective and robust IT Service Management in your organization!

Learn how multi vendor tools can be integrated to create a collaborative development Ecosystem using Kovair's Enterprise Service Bus - "the Omnibus" and built-in "Omniprocess." A live demo of integrations with Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, Perforce SCM and Microsoft Sharepoint will be shown.

In this one hour Webinar learn four of the core concepts of Requirements Management – Traceability, Versioning, Baselining and Reuse of Requirements. Kovair’s CTO Sky Basu will show how a Requirements Management group can achieve multiple levels of Traceability for Requirements, Test and other artifacts using Kovair’s Requirements Management Tool and how to achieve Reuse of Requirements. He will demonstrate various types of graphical representations of traceability and Baseline version diagrams.

For most companies, there is a wealth of untapped opportunities to cut costs from their development projects which do not get focused on when the times are good! However, when the economic climate turns the way it has recently, all avenues have to be examined to cut costs and improve efficiencies. When development groups are geographically distributed globally and many different tools being used is the order of the day, inefficiencies are rampant! This webinar will show you how integrating existing tools in a single and transparent ecosystem and enabling them with process automation will considerably enhance efficiency, improve productivity and delivery times, cut travel and communications costs, reduce management overhead and bring total visibility for cost reduction!