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Analytics is commonly used to describe, analyze, predict and improve business performance. It is a visual representation of critical data that gives a clear insight into the release progress or project health, and team performance, thus helping in the successful completion of project or software delivery. Peter Drucker, who pioneered modern business management once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”.<\/p>\n

Reporting – The Major Pain Point of Non-Integrated ALM<\/h2>\n

In any non-integrated ALM scenario, teams work in different tools as per their domain of specialty. This makes the data remain locked in silos instead of being shared among different functional groups in a collaborative manner. They look into the reports based on the data that are stored only in their own tools. For example, business analysts get to see reports specific to requirements, developers view reports based on change sets and code files, and testers are confined to test cases and test run related reports. But, what about the project managers who need to continuously monitor project progress and ensure smooth delivery? For example, a project manager may need to view a release progress report based on cross-tool data. In order to generate or prepare such consolidated reports, managers need to depend on manual feedbacks from different teams. They need to interact with different teams and tools to collect artifact data and then go through the daunting task of consolidating them for managerial representation.<\/p>\n

This raises the demand for a central repository based integrated platform which will enable all stakeholders to view the progress of the release in real-time. The solution should integrate all the tools being used for different phases of ALM and bring the stakeholders close to each other irrespective of the time zone they are in.<\/p>\n

How Kovair Addresses these Pain Points<\/h2>\n

Kovair ALM<\/a> along with its proprietary SOA architected ESB-based integration framework – Omnibus<\/a> provides a central repository based integrated ALM platform. Omnibus, the integration middleware platform from Kovair is capable of integrating open source, legacy, as well as homegrown tools used by organizations. It is aware of all the events occurring in different tools and is able to capture relevant data from those connected tools. Stakeholders can not only have a broad level view of consolidated data across all tools in a single screen but also have the ability to drill down to the granular levels of data real-time. With Kovair\u2019s high-end reporting system, one can create nine different types of graphical and non-graphical reports such as Tabular, Tabular with Summary, Form, Form with Summary, Distribution Metrics, Matrix, Trend, Custom Crystal, and Word. Kovair also allows the creation of highly configurable role based dashboards using various types of gadgets including Catalog, Gantt charts, and Reports. Clicking on any part of a dashboard displays drilldown data for in-depth analysis.<\/p>\n

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