{"id":1801,"date":"2017-09-04T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2017-09-04T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:45:14","slug":"integrating-kovair-omnibus-pivotal-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blogs\/integrating-kovair-omnibus-pivotal-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Kovair Omnibus with Pivotal Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Kovair-Pivotal Labs partnership has been initiated with the focus to introduce seamless integration of data and flow execution between multiple ALM tools and Pivotal Tracker.<\/p>\n

Need for Pivotal Tracker integration<\/h2>\n

Pivotal Tracker is an agile project management software used for iteration planning of project requirements. It helps to break down epics to create stories, estimate and prioritize backlogs, associate related task, provide a real time view into project progress and track team\u2019s velocity. With the Kovair-Pivotal integration in place,\u00a0the project managers can use Tracker for project planning, scheduling, and backlog creation. They can communicate simultaneously with various stakeholders who might be using host of other disparate tools.<\/p>\n

The integration enables IT organizations to remove the silos that stand in the way of effective collaboration between large teams and multiple stakeholders, improve data monitoring activity across the best-of-breed connected tools, and obtain complete traceability leading to better management of software delivery cycles.<\/p>\n

Integration features & benefits<\/h2>\n

1. Centralized Traceability Metrics<\/h3>\n

Relationships between various artifact data residing across multiple tools can be synchronized through Kovair \u2013 Pivotal Tracker integration thereby establishing a cross-tool traceability and deeper insight into project progress.<\/p>\n

\"Centralized<\/p>\n

2. Centralized Reporting System<\/h3>\n

Kovair Pivotal Tracker integration<\/strong><\/a> also benefits from the powerful and feature-rich centralized reporting capability of Kovair Omnibus. Gathering data across the integrated tool chain including Pivotal Tracker, custom dashboards and reports can be generated. The following image illustrates graphical reports and dashboards created in Kovair Omnibus interface on the fly:<\/p>\n

\"Centralized<\/p>\n

3. Easy Setup<\/h3>\n

Entire integration is a simple three-step configuration using Kovair\u2019s web based UI that makes it easy to setup without the need of writing a single line of code.<\/p>\n

4. Monitoring and Acknowledgement of Systems<\/h3>\n

Users can directly monitor the entire integration from within Kovair\u2019s application UI and the generated holistic reports centrally outline the total rate of success or failure in sync.<\/p>\n

5. More than Just a means of Integration<\/h3>\n

By syncing relationship links across tool objects Kovair Omnibus integration is able to achieve complete end-to-end traceability. Cross-phase\/cross-team multi-tool integration and automated workflows benefit in removing organizational silos.<\/p>\n

Easy integration of Pivotal Tracker artifacts<\/h2>\n

Pivotal Tracker artifacts are easily integrated with other tools, thereby enabling seamless integration of data like the lookup values, custom work item types, fields and lookup values.<\/p>\n

6. Easily Adaptable to the Changing Process and Needs<\/h3>\n

Kovair\u2019s ESB approach to integration makes it independent and easily adaptable to any version upgrade, modification or addition of any new tool that needs to be integrated with the Tracker. All that the user has to do is install a new version of the Kovair adaptor and get the integration running by executing the three-step setup.<\/p>\n

7. Sync and Link Kovair\u2019s plugin for Different IDEs:<\/h3>\n

Developers using Kovair\u2019s plugin for different IDEs can easily access information from other tools, modify it as required and keep on updating status as the task progresses.<\/p>\n

Use case example<\/h2>\n

To understand how the tracker uses the Omnibus Integration Platform to integrate with other tools, let\u2019s take a look at a sample workflow. Let\u2019s consider an enterprise team who would be using the following tools \u2013<\/p>\n