Defining
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is not very easy. Different
people and organizations have their own take and perspectives on the
same. Still, ALM is a crucial topic in today’s corporate world.
Sometimes people confuse ALM with Software
Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
ALM is way different from SDLC. An application’s lifecycle
comprises of the total time through which an enterprise is incurring
expenditure in this asset i.e. from the beginning idea stage to the
final phase of the product’s life. To be both accurate and useful,
ALM today needs to have an equally wide perspective.
Features
of Advanced Application Lifecycle Management Solutions
Today
there are leading market players providing a well-equipped ALM studio
specializing in Application
Lifecycle Management solutions.
They cater multiple aspects ranging from requirements management to
the final product release stage. Furthermore, there are other
members, for instance customers, analysts, software architects,
designers that share deliverables and assignment goals amongst them.
This is then collaborated worldwide. Other features are:-
* 100
percent web based solutions -
Users are able to access a web architected grounds-up framework
through popular browsers such as, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome
and many others
*
There are Multiple input procedures that helps users to have any
requirements through the following methods – Sending them by Email,
Import them from Microsoft Word Document,
*
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, or a CSV file with a configurable
format, Submitting inputs from a corporate portal or website or from
any third party tools in real-time
* Entity
Relations – The
common feature in a Requirements Management tool is traceability and
advanced ALM solution have expanded this Traceability Relations
making it a central feature for its built-in applications
* IT
Process Automation – ALM
solutions assists in total IT process automation of the in-built
application However, the three essential aspects of Application
Lifecycle Management comprise governance, development and operations.
Furthermore, the modern day ALM tools include the following:-
*
Multi-vendor Best of Breed Integrated ALM Tools
*
Point-to-point Integrated Multi Vendor Tools
*
Single Vendor Integrated ALMTools
ALM
solutions are also capable of creating multiple kinds of reports and
using multiple reporting tools such as:-
*
HTML, allowing direct printing from the application
*
Export any lists to Excel for additional formatting and manipulation
*
In-built Crystal Reports that provide simple means to perform custom
formatting
*
Word Reporting leads to fully personalized formatting with
multi-level data elements
*
Dashboard Report with updates information from the system for
reporting any aspect of the project that comprises the overall
Project Health or Process Indices Report with Graphical,
* Tabular
and Chart formats
Thus
we see that innovative ALM solutions help the users to fit in the
software delivery process as per their needs.
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