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About the Partner

Since 1993, Project Remedies Inc. has worked with over 250 companies in a wide range of industries. Their mission is to provide high quality Remedy AR System solutions that leverage AR System investment.

They offer Project Management System, Program Management System, Demand Management, Cost Management, Resource Management, Time Management System, Earned Value Management System, IT Governance Suite and Complete Work Management System on Remedy.

 

Project Remedies

Company Info

  • Industry: Project Portfolio Management Consulting and Solutions
  • Country: United States
  • Address: 415920 Sunset Blvd. No. 7, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
  • Phone: 310-230-1722
  • Fax: 310-230-1757
  • E-mail:  stanf@projectremedies.com
  • Website: projectremedies.com

About Microsoft

Microsoft Technology Partner

Kovair offers Omnibus connectors for many Microsoft products, including Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel. Omnibus is based on .NET technology and uses Microsoft SQL Server for data repository, making it easier for any Microsoft customer adoption.

Kovair has worked with customers of Microsoft tools for some time facilitating them to integrate Microsoft and other tools. By joining the VSIP program, Kovair will be able to better align its product development with Microsoft roadmap and be able to help customers implement their development strategies ahead of the curve, said Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair Software.

Microsoft VSIP

Omnibus makes Visual Studio, SharePoint and TFS interoperable with all major competitor products and open source tools for which Kovair currently offers more than 40 different integrations. Omnibus has adapters for most popular Microsoft development tools including Visual Studio, TFS, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Word and Excel. Omnibus Reports are available in Word and Excel formats. Learn more about Kovair’s Visual Studio Adapter and Plug in, TFS Integration Adapter at Visual Studio Gallery.

Microsoft can introduce Kovair Omnibus to their customers who are heavy users of HP, IBM, JIRA, and open source tools by offering integrations between Microsoft products and third party multi-vendor tools. Kovair Omnibus platform also provides seamless Migration and synchronization between HP QC, Microsoft TFS and MTM. It supports migration of all HP QC elements (Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, History and Links between items) to TFS and their interrelationships and facilitates execution of QTP Test Scripts linked with Test Cases from MTM. Thus, Kovair brings value to Team Foundation Server and Test Manager users who also include HP tools in their development process.

Visual Studio from Microsoft has enabled software development organizations to break free of rigid, process-oriented application lifecycles that isolate development, testing, project management and operations teams. Microsoft’s approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to your team’s needs, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes so you can focus on delivering high-quality software faster and more efficiently. For more information.

 

About IBM

IBM Technology Partner

Kovair Omnibus has adapters for all major IBM Rational Tools for various ALM functions such as Requirements Management, Design Management, Configuration Management, Test Management, Change Management. The Omnibus platform provides integration support for DOORS NextGen, Eclipse, Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.

IBM Ready for Rational Partner

IBM Rational software helps organizations succeed by supporting DevOps, continuous engineering, and enterprise modernization best practices. It bridges the gaps between customers, requirements, and deliverables. IBM Rational tools can help improve the overall effectiveness of managing your business systems regardless of whether you develop applications in-house extensively, occasionally with a focus on extensions to vendor software or utilize a third-party vendor to handle all customization and changes to commercially supplied software.

 

About CA Technologies

Technology Partner CA Technologies

Kovair is the TPP – Tech Partner member of CA Technologies. Kovair Omnibus adapter for CA Clarity PPM allows integration with multi-vendor best-of-breed tools such as TFS, ClearQuest (CQ), Quality Center (QC), and JIRA that are connected through Omnibus. By integrating CA Clarity PPM with these tools, organizations can get better visibility into its portfolio of IT projects, applications, and opportunities.

Kovair TPP TechPartner- Member

One of Kovair Customers – a large global networking company uses CA Clarity for their Planning teams. Kovair helps them integrate with Rally so that any change made in Clarity by the Planning team automatically reflects in Rally for the Execution team on a real time basis.

CA software and solutions help customers drive enterprise-wide productivity, offer differentiated user experiences and open new growth opportunities. From planning to DevOps to security to systems management, CA brings an unparalleled combination of experience, innovation, responsibility and values-driven leadership to everything they do. They deliver this value across multiple environments – mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe. For more information, please visit Website.

 

About BMC Software

Kovair - BMC TAP Premier Partner

Kovair is the TAP Premier Partner of BMC Software and provides integrations aligned with BMC Remedy. Omnibus Adapter for Remedy integrates Remedy ITSM and Help Desk applications with development tools so that software development and IT infrastructure can stay in sync. Kovair Remedy Integration Adapter integrates BMC Remedy ITSM Suite with various ALM tools such as Rally, QC, Perforce, JIRA, connected to Kovair Omnibus platform, and thus supports ALM-ITSM convergence.

BMC helps leading companies around the world put technology at the forefront of meaningful business change, improving the delivery and consumption of digital services. BMC Remedy is the most comprehensive and capable ITSM software solution available for enterprises.The BMC Remedy ITSM suite automates the operations of ITSM process areas and enables organizations to align their business services with their IT infrastructure. For more information, view Kovair on BMC Community Portal.

 

About Rally

Microsoft Technology Partner

Rally is exposed to the Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform through Kovair Rally Integration Adapter. The Adapter is responsible for integrating Rally with all the tools that are connected to the Omnibus integration platform. Kovair provides integration support for the SaaS version of Rally using API version 2.0.

By integrating Rally with other tools, organizations can sync data across the tools which are used for different phases of application lifecycle and IT Service Management.

Thus Kovair-Rally integration offers value-added Agile experience!

Rally Software offers cloud computing-based solutions for managing agile software development. The company’s offerings include Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM) platform and products.The RallyDev platform includes modules for project management, requirements management, reporting, time tracking, idea management, and quality and portfolio management.

 

ServiceNow Technology PartnerKovair Omnibus Integration Platform integrates ServiceNow cloud solution with a wide range of 90+ on-premise ALM tools, such as JIRA, QC, TFS and RTC as well as cloud-based Applications like Salesforce. By integrating ServiceNow with ALM tools, you can allow your Application Development and IT Operations teams to become more closely aligned to business.

About the Partner

ServiceNow’s cloud-based solutions power the service-oriented enterprise. Their advanced automation and process workflow capabilities provide a single platform for managing service relationships not only within IT, but also across the enterprise. With ServiceNow, enterprise IT transforms from infrastructure-centric to service-centric business. For more information, visit Website.

Technology Partners SalesforceKovair Omnibus Integration Adapter for Salesforce allows customers to connect their Salesforce application or custom force.com applications to other on-premise or cloud applications like Issue Management and HelpDesk applications, such as JIRA, Remedy, ServiceNow and ClearQuest. Once Salesforce is connected with these Issue Management and HelpDesk applications, Salesforce artifacts like cases and tickets become accessible to these applications.

About the Partner

Salesforce.com is a cloud computing and social enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. Of its cloud platforms and applications, the company is best known for its Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) product, which is composed of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Force.com, Chatter and Work.com. For more information, visit Website.

Rally Software offers cloud computing-based solutions for managing agile software development. The company’s offerings include Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) platform and products. The Rally platform includes modules for project management, requirements management, reporting, time tracking, idea management, and quality and portfolio management.

Features & Benefits

  •  Bi-directional synchronization of Rally work items with other tools.
  • Adapter is light weight and capable of handling heavy data flow.
  • Uses light weight JSON Data for communication.
  • Plug-in functionality exposed. A user can view Tasks, User Story, Defects, Test Cases from their IDE (Eclipse, VSTS).
  • Easy to Configure.
  • Detects and handles Conflicts.
  • Allows to establish synchronization between Requirements Management, Quality Management, Project Portfolio Management, Release Management and Issue Management activities.
  • Allows to keep track of changes made in artifacts across tools.
  • Allows to impart traceability across artifacts.
  • Helps to generate cross-tools reports and dashboards.
  • Rally has connectors for different tools. Using Kovair Adapter for Rally those tools can be brought in to the integrated environment too.

Kovair Support for Rally Integration

Rally is exposed to the Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform through “Kovair Rally Integration Adapter“. The Adapter is responsible for integrating Rally with Omnibus and thereby to all the tools in the integrated scenario.

By integrating Rally with other ALM tools used for different phases of application lifecycle, organizations can sync data across the tools which are used for Requirements Management, Test Management, Release Management, Issue Management and Build Management.

Here is what this integration provides:

  • Allows the developers to view Tasks, User Stories, Defects, Test Cases from their IDE, such as Eclipse, without logging in to Rally.
  • With access to other ALM applications, cross-tools reporting and Scrum progress tracking become easy.
  • Allows to migrate iteration-wise User Stories and related Tasks from Rally to Project Management tools such as MS Project; users can Add, Modify or Delete Tasks there and get the corresponding records updated in Project Management platform.
  • Allows to determine roll-up view of User Stories.
  • Options to migrate records from different ALM tools to a single tool and thus maintain a single repository, or keep using multiple tools in an integrated environment.
  • The integration offers value-added Agile experience!

Kovair Rally Integration Adapter offers the followings:

Increased Visibility

  • By integrating Rally with other ALM tools, organizations can get better visibility of processes. Changes in artifacts inside any tool get reflected across all connected applications.
  • Developers can view User Stories, Defects, Tasks, Test Cases from their IDE. No need to log in to any other applications.
  • Kovair enables cross-tools reporting; data flows from all the tools in both the directions and can be plotted over charts, tables or other reporting tools
  • All the phases of ALM and tools used to manage those phases come under one umbrella.

Larger ALM Environment

As Rally gets connected with other ALM tools, the span of ALM ecosystem grows larger. Top of that, Rally provides connectors for some applications. Using Kovair Adapter for Rally, together with Rally Connectors, users can connect to the Rally-supported tools as well.

Examples of Rally Integrations

1. ServiceNow-Rally Integration

This video explains how Kovair helps Operations Teams working in ServiceNow to collaborate with Development teams working in Agile based environment, and thus improving customer support system by providing real-time engagement on the development progress.

This clearly increases the span of integrated ALM environment. As it becomes easy to establish link among several other tools, the scope of reporting, process automation etc. increase progressively. This leads to end-to-end traceability, better monitoring and improved performance for the teams working remotely.

<!– Date & Time: Thursday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 PM IST, 7.30 A.M EST, 4.30 A.M PST, 1.30 P.M CET Duration: 1 hour Attendees: 316–> Presenter: Soumanil Chowdhury, Manager– Solutions and Services, Kovair Software Inc.
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Webinar Summary

Soumanil Chowdhury from Kovair
Soumanil Chowdhury

Application development has become more tool dependent with time. More and more organizations are using best-of-breed ALM tools from multiple vendors for their globally distributed teams.This has posed several challenges in terms of team collaboration, cross-tool visibility, end-to-end traceability, process automation and consolidated reporting.

Organizations need to ensure that all stakeholders communicate with each other from their preferred tool environment – any time, anywhere and anyway they want. Synchronization of ALM tools therefore, is of utmost importance.Stakeholders should enjoy continuous integration between ALM tools irrespective of project complexities, integration technology and tool-specific challenges.

There is also a growing trend among organizations to migrate from one tool to another for a variety of reasons such as cost saving, productivity gains, better team collaboration.It is imperative that stakeholders have the ability to migrate and sync all artifacts  and their interrelationships between tools through simple drag-and-drop configuration screens.

This webinar will take you through the fundamentals of ALM integrations and explain the benefits of developing applications in an integrated tool environment. A short live demonstration on HP QC to TFS and MTM migration will be shown towards the end of the webinar to help you understand the process flow.

What you will learn:

  • What is ALM Synchronization?
  • What is Tool Migration?
  • What are the benefits of synchronization and migration between ALM tools?
  • What are the essentials that users need to remember during tool migration?
  • How canproject artifacts be migrated and synched between best-of-breedALM tools?
  • How and why should users maintain artifact records and their interrelationships during tool migration?
  • How can a project manager track data flow during migration and ensure data security?
 

Who should attend

CTO’s, Architects, Project Managers, Project Leaders, Developers, QA Leaders For further queries on this Webinar or to schedule a Live Demo, please write to sales@kovair.com.
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Webinar Summary:

Puranjoy Chatterjee from Kovair
Puranjoy Chatterjee

Integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is fast gaining popularity in the Application Development community. More and more organizations are opting for robust integration solutions to enhance the quality and productivity of their teams. The ability to have a tightly integrated ecosystem of best-of-breed multi-vendor tools has many benefits – consolidated reporting and real-time metrics being one of them.

Integrating code quality analysis tools with IDEs, QA tools and other ALM tools enables the organization to get a real-time picture of the Quality of work products being created. Standard algorithms can be used on this live data to generate predictive metrics about the quality of the final software being developed. This is extremely useful to help teams take preventive actions before it is  too late. Enforcing Quality after the product is already built has prohibitive costs and thus it is important to know when things are beginning to go in a wrong direction. This webinar will discuss the benefits of Integrated ALM and how it can be used to generate real-time actionable metrics. A short demonstration will be shown towards the end of the webinar to show how the metrics are generated as the project stakeholders perform their regular tasks.

What you will learn:

  • What is Integrated ALM?
  • What are the benefits of Integrated ALM?
  • How can real-time metrics be produced with Integrated ALM?
  • How these metrics can be used to predict Quality of the final product?
  • How Integrated ALM can be used achieve better Quality?
 

Who will attend:

CTO’s, Architects, Project Managers, Project Leaders, Developers, QA Leaders For further queries on this Webinar or to schedule a Live Demo, please write to sales@kovair.com.

Webinar Summary

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Presenter: Ashok Srivastava, Sr. Manager Solutions & Services, Kovair Software Inc.
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Webinar Summary

Ashok Srivastava
Ashok Srivastava

IT Service Management (ITSM) is practiced by all organizations having Human and IT Resources such as hardware -servers, desktops / laptops, scanners / printers, switches / routers and software -operating systems, application software, security / anti-virus software.

Small organizations which have less number of resources, manage their ITSM operations manually and uses excel sheets and word documents to capture operations data. Medium and Large organizations use tools to manage their IT Service Management Operations.

Automating IT Service Management (ITSM) and having real-time information on current state of operations is vital today as organizations are spread over distributed geographical locations, operate 24×7 in multiple time-zones and there are stringent SLAs which are to be met.

This webinar will help attendees understand:
  • What are important ITSM requirements from organization’s perspective?
  • Why it’s important to have 100% web-based solution for automating ITSM?
  • How organizations will benefit by automating their ITSM operations?

What you will learn:

  • What is ITIL and how does it differ from standards like ISO series?
  • What are the main activities of Incident Management Process?
  • What is the difference between Incident and Problem?
  • How can we populate organization’s existing data which is in excel format in tool?
  • Whether SLA clock stops when Incident converts into Problem?
  • Whether Incident / Tickets can be created from mobile devices?
  • Whether ITSM Tools can be integrated with other tools such as asset discovery tools, device monitoring tools?
  • Whether reports and metrics which are presently maintained by organizations manually can be generated from automated tools?

Who should attend:

IT Service Management Professionals, IT Support Professionals, Service Desk Professionals For further queries on this Webinar or to schedule a Live Demo, please write to sales@kovair.com.