Kovair Completes a Major ALM Integration Pilot

During June, Kovair completed a successful pilot with a major high technology company in Silicon Valley that utilized the following capabilities of the Kovair ALM Studio:

• Document Management
• Issues Management
• Incident Management
• Kovair Omnibus Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Kovair Omnibus Integration with Rational ClearCase SCM

Kovair’s newly released Document Management and its Issues Management capabilities were used to potentially replace an in- house built Document and Issues Management product. The ClearCase integration covers usage at multiple sites globally and the integration will allow the Company to continue to use ClearCase over a longer period of time or to consider migrating in a planned manner to any other latest SCM tool.  Several segments of the development groups participated in a well- documented and well -defined pilot over a six- week period with Kovair’s capabilities acknowledged and well -received by them!

We encourage any company considering Integrated ALM with global collaborative multisite development capabilities of Kovair to email Sales@Kovair.com

Kovair's New Customer- Honeywell

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 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

• Traceability between functional requirements and business requirements.
•  Versioning to view the version changes for a given requirement and for the SRS as a whole.
• Capturing comments on business requirements and customer specifications.
• Attachment of Visio documents, images and Excel sheets at both requirement and document levels.
• Printing/exporting documents in Word, Excel or PDF formats.
• Workflow management and event- based notifications.
• Ability to set view & edit permissions on a requirement on the tool.
• Automatic locking of a requirement during editing to prevent editing by more than one user at a time.
• Publishing requirements on a web page.
• Linking business requirements to a business process step or activity in a process.
• Downloading requirements from the tool, working offline and re-uploading changes.
• Performing Impact Analysis, enabling viewing the impact of a requirement change on other requirements / test cases that are linked to it.

Upcoming Webinar: HP Cloud Integrations in Three Steps Using the Kovair Enterprise Service Bus – ESB A webinar with Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research September 8, 2011

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 integrations among multi-vendor, multi-platform, multi-location applications over the Cloud

The following three steps achieve this without the need for additional services by 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 using a graphical drag-and-drop interface
Step 3: Achieve the data transfer in real-time

In addition to the real time data transfer among applications, Omnibus offers definition of relations between the objects in these applications, cross-application workflow management and consolidated dashboards and reports.

Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst from Forrester Research, will discuss the benefits of a comprehensive solution based on Enterprise Service Bus and the adoption trends.

Sky Basu, CTO of Kovair, will present how using Omnibus Integration Middleware, enterprises can achieve their cloud integration goals with substantially reduced time and costs with considerable ease of ongoing maintenance!

New White Papers from Kovair

Please note the following details and links to view and download Kovair’s new white papers for your personal library of useful papers.

ROI Paper for the Integrated Kovair ALM:  We have been frequently asked about the calculation of ROI achieved with a totally integrated ALM of multi vendor tools through the Kovair Omnibus technology.  This paper provides some of the details of productivity, quality and cost improvements achieved as a result of the integrations. It then provides guidelines on the cost savings that can be achieved for development projects- follow them to arrive at an ROI figure for a given situation for your organization.  Please click here  to obtain your copy.

Key Reports for a Well -Managed IT Services Organization: For anyone managing his/her organization’s IT Services, it is critical to understand the types of reports available from Kovair’s ITSM Studio solution. This paper contains several examples of these reports with actual graphics and screen shots without too many words!  A picture is worth a thousand words is the motto here! Follow the link to obtain your copy.

Recorded Webinar: "HP Quality Center and QTP Users: Integrate with Multi-vendor Tools for Seamless ALM/SDLC Traceability, Analytics & Project Management", June 9, 2011

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.

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 ALM 2.0 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 tools, besides sharing several important reports and dashboards.

Watch this webinar to find out how other tools are integrated through the Kovair Omnibus to provide these capabilities.

Recorded version

Brain Teaser: Tipping the Scales

The top two scales are in per­fect bal­ance. How many dia­monds will be needed to bal­ance the bot­tom set?

This puz­zle works your exec­u­tive func­tions in your frontal lobes by using your pat­tern recog­ni­tion, hypoth­e­sis test­ing, and logic.

Answer to the Brain Teaser

Four diamonds

First add up the number of clubs in the first two scales (5). Then count how many clubs are in the bottom scale (5). Then do the same with the spades, which gets you 5 and 5. There are 4 diamonds in the top two balanced scales. Therefore, it must take 4 diamonds to balance the third scale since all the other measurements are the same.