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<\/p>\nThe integration between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is perhaps the most successful of all software practices. Convergence of PLM and ALM is essential when developing a system with both hardware and software components. However, why is PLM-ALM integration important? Before we jump into the discussion, let us first understand what we mean by ALM and PLM.<\/p>\n
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) can be best explained as a workflow that dictates the entire life-cycle of a product. It is essential for connecting and managing various components where a product is situated at the core. Linked to this product are other artifacts namely Change Request, Parts, Design Documents all of which could be tracked under a single workflow.<\/p>\n
Unlike PLM, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) on the other hand helps to manage software items that encompass the Requirements, Code Files, Build, Test Cases as well as the Defects of an application.<\/p>\n
Integration of tools between these two disparate domains is essential to keep up the pace of reaching the market as fast as possible and to exhibit a competitive product.\u00a0 An PLM-ALM integration can directly impact the two life-cycle processes in the following ways \u2014<\/p>\n
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The importance of ALM-PLM integration<\/strong><\/a> can be best explained with the help of a scenario. Let us assume that the team responsible for managing requirements uses IBM RDNG (Rational Doors NextGen) as the requirements management solution.<\/p>\n The Requirements which are added to the RDNG tool needs to be made available to the Windchill tool from the OSLC tab as well so that Windchill users can establish a cross-OSLC traceability by linking Part Number to RDNG Requirements. To keep both the teams in sync, the linked part numbers needed to be made visible from RDNG as well.<\/p>\n By leveraging OSLC linking capabilities, Kovair achieves the following integration scenario between ALM and PLM tools:<\/p>\n Integration of technologies is the only way to meet the ever-growing demands of the smart generation. While the best of the breed solution helps an enterprise to scale up as and when required, it also provides smart analysis of the accumulated data.<\/p>\n With Kovair Omnibus<\/strong><\/a>, users can create an ecosystem that facilitates tool communication and enables teams to be in sync across domains, In addition, it also helps to accelerate the decision-making of teams from the managerial perspective.<\/p>\n \r\nEnterprise Tools Integration and Data Synchronization<\/h2>\r\n
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