Introduction
Kovair, a technology leader in the Applications Lifecycle Management –ALM and IT Service Management – ITSM offers several solutions such a Requirements Management, Test Management, Issues Management Solutions and Change Management Solutions, Help Desk, Incidents and Problem Management. Kovair is known for its following four technology value propositions, no matter what the specific application or solution. 100% web based architecture that supports multiple major browsers with no client side software installation Drag and drop code less configurable entities that allow easy configurations for desired applications making it a very viable and flexible long term investment with very high ROI. An excellent Task based, built in Process or Automated Work flow Tool or Engine which we call the ‘Omni process’ that allows process capabilities to be added to any application (and multiple ones in parallel).An Enterprise Service Bus or Integration Bus called the ‘Omnibus’ that is SOA architecture based. It facilitates integration of Kovair with any third party tool or software by building thin adapters that allow bi- directional data transfer between Kovair and the third party software and bring it into the single repository of Kovair for any technical, management or reporting reasons.With the above basics of Kovair succinctly outlined, let us focus in this particular paper on the value proposition of the Enterprise Integration Bus – the Omnibus.
The Omnibus Integrations
It is generally well known that in the entire product development life cycle, developers work in isolation or silos based on their functions, technology, geographic or plant locations. Another way of explaining this would be to say that the Requirements Management tools do not talk to Test Management tools and the test management tools do not talk to the Issues or Bug tracking tools. The same could be said about the IT Service Management side of the organization.
Kovair helps to resolve this issue in two dimensions. For multiple Kovair solutions, Kovair comes with a single data repository so that the data for Requirements, test, issues and other ALM entities resides in the same repository and it is therefore easy to get an integrated picture of various aspects of the development life cycle. However, this is not the case in real life as most organizations use the best of breed tools from multiple vendors which seldom have inter connected and data transferability unless point to point integrations are carried out. Even different tools from the same vendor are not typically connected with each other. So, this is where the second dimension of Kovair’s integration capability comes into use by way of the Omnibus technology.
To eliminate the need for point to point integrations – where integrating 5 different tools requires 10 total integrations, Kovair developed the Omnibus technology that is SOA based. In a bus or hub architecture for integrations, 5 integrations require only 5 adapters and thus bring considerable savings in both development and maintenance costs for upgrades for new versions of tools. The SOA technology based Omnibus is data base, technology, vendor and location agnostic. Thus, Kovair can be integrated with other tools that may be using Oracle or Linux data bases, or can be located anywhere as Kovair’s web based architecture facilitates remote communication and collaboration. In today’s multi locations as well as outsourced development environment, it is important that a Requirements Management tool based in Boston can communicate with a Test tool based in Bangalore. The Kovair Omnibus technology is very capable of delivering on this essential need.
The Advantages of the Omnibus Technology
The omnibus technology has a few unique advantages that are enumerated below.
Bus or Hub versus point to point integrations as discussed above bringing considerable savings in development and maintenance costs Web Services Standard or SOA architecture makes it open to any type of software from any vendor including home grown tools or data bases for integrations Kovair has developed a “Tools Class API” to make integrations with other tools relatively easy once the APIs for other tools are available. The data layer is separated from the business layer and as such no hard coding of business rules has to be carried out for the integrations. Business rules are configured for each application as desired by the user.The Omnibus integrations enhance the capabilities of other tools by way of introducing process capabilities that Kovair has built in to other tools that may not have a process engine.
Read more about Kovair Automated Workflow Tool at cmcrossroads.com
Kovair, a technology leader in the Applications Lifecycle Management –ALM and IT Service Management – ITSM offers several solutions such a Requirements Management, Test Management, Issues Management Solutions and Change Management Solutions, Help Desk, Incidents and Problem Management. Kovair is known for its following four technology value propositions, no matter what the specific application or solution. 100% web based architecture that supports multiple major browsers with no client side software installation Drag and drop code less configurable entities that allow easy configurations for desired applications making it a very viable and flexible long term investment with very high ROI. An excellent Task based, built in Process or Automated Work flow Tool or Engine which we call the ‘Omni process’ that allows process capabilities to be added to any application (and multiple ones in parallel).An Enterprise Service Bus or Integration Bus called the ‘Omnibus’ that is SOA architecture based. It facilitates integration of Kovair with any third party tool or software by building thin adapters that allow bi- directional data transfer between Kovair and the third party software and bring it into the single repository of Kovair for any technical, management or reporting reasons.With the above basics of Kovair succinctly outlined, let us focus in this particular paper on the value proposition of the Enterprise Integration Bus – the Omnibus.
The Omnibus Integrations
It is generally well known that in the entire product development life cycle, developers work in isolation or silos based on their functions, technology, geographic or plant locations. Another way of explaining this would be to say that the Requirements Management tools do not talk to Test Management tools and the test management tools do not talk to the Issues or Bug tracking tools. The same could be said about the IT Service Management side of the organization.
Kovair helps to resolve this issue in two dimensions. For multiple Kovair solutions, Kovair comes with a single data repository so that the data for Requirements, test, issues and other ALM entities resides in the same repository and it is therefore easy to get an integrated picture of various aspects of the development life cycle. However, this is not the case in real life as most organizations use the best of breed tools from multiple vendors which seldom have inter connected and data transferability unless point to point integrations are carried out. Even different tools from the same vendor are not typically connected with each other. So, this is where the second dimension of Kovair’s integration capability comes into use by way of the Omnibus technology.
To eliminate the need for point to point integrations – where integrating 5 different tools requires 10 total integrations, Kovair developed the Omnibus technology that is SOA based. In a bus or hub architecture for integrations, 5 integrations require only 5 adapters and thus bring considerable savings in both development and maintenance costs for upgrades for new versions of tools. The SOA technology based Omnibus is data base, technology, vendor and location agnostic. Thus, Kovair can be integrated with other tools that may be using Oracle or Linux data bases, or can be located anywhere as Kovair’s web based architecture facilitates remote communication and collaboration. In today’s multi locations as well as outsourced development environment, it is important that a Requirements Management tool based in Boston can communicate with a Test tool based in Bangalore. The Kovair Omnibus technology is very capable of delivering on this essential need.
The Advantages of the Omnibus Technology
The omnibus technology has a few unique advantages that are enumerated below.
Bus or Hub versus point to point integrations as discussed above bringing considerable savings in development and maintenance costs Web Services Standard or SOA architecture makes it open to any type of software from any vendor including home grown tools or data bases for integrations Kovair has developed a “Tools Class API” to make integrations with other tools relatively easy once the APIs for other tools are available. The data layer is separated from the business layer and as such no hard coding of business rules has to be carried out for the integrations. Business rules are configured for each application as desired by the user.The Omnibus integrations enhance the capabilities of other tools by way of introducing process capabilities that Kovair has built in to other tools that may not have a process engine.
Read more about Kovair Automated Workflow Tool at cmcrossroads.com
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