Kovair ALM StudioOne-Stop Solution for all your PPM and

Integrated ALM Needs

þ Complete integrated ALM and PPM capabilities in a single offering.

þ Central repository providing cross-tool data-based traceability, reports, and dashboards.

þ 100% web-based with global accessibility anytime and anywhere.

þ Support for different methodologies like Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban.

þ Configurable task-based workflow processes and policy engines for routing, reviews, and approvals.

þ Automated notifications at every actionable stage to eliminate manual handoffs.

þ Support for cross-project activities at portfolio level.

þ Configurable portfolio management support with different organizational hierarchies.

þ Multiple reporting options: Dashboards, Word, Excel and Crystal Reports, End-to-End Traceability and Real-Time Reporting across projects and portfolio items for total control on the release quality and timeline.

þ Integrations with 80+ commercial tools of ALM, PPM, ITSM, and PLM domains using Kovair Omnibus — an SOA-based proprietary Enterprise Service Bus.

HIGHLIGHTS

The Most Cost-effective Way to manage Software Products, Projects, Programs, and Portfolio

Single Integrated ALM and PPM Product with Central Repository

Project and Portfolio Management

Solution Overview

Kovair ALM Studio has support for Project Portfolio Management where in organizations can manage multiple projects as well as manage multiple projects grouped under a user defined hierarchy at the portfolio level.

Ÿ Simplified top-down approach for program managers and senior executives to align business strategies with projects.

Ÿ Cost-effective approach for delivering projects and programs and viewing cross-project reports and dashboards.

Ÿ Ability to schedule resources as per work load.Ÿ Complete task-based scheduler for project planning.Ÿ Allows users to generate Earned Value Management metrics.Ÿ Real-time monitoring of planned vs actual data.Ÿ Enables users to view the project calendar and track the progress.Ÿ Upfront visibility on pending tasks.Ÿ Capability of entering timesheets against tasks. Ÿ Allows users to book their time entry.Ÿ Formal approval process to enable supervisors to approve or reject

timesheets.Ÿ Capability of rolling up actual data to project, program, and portfolio

level for monitoring time and cost.

Ÿ Proactive and Reactive Impact Analysis.Ÿ Flexible views and filters: Multi-grouped hierarchy view and

document view.Ÿ Baselines and Excel-like batch update facility.Ÿ Document generation in various formats including MS Word.Ÿ Generation of custom template-based PRD / MRD / SRS

documents.Ÿ Graphical dashboards and Textual metrics for reporting.

Ÿ All-in-one web-based solution accessible anytime and anywhere.Ÿ Support for multiple development methodologies – Waterfall, Scrum,

Kanban, Hybrid and any other as followed by the organization.Ÿ Process automation through configurable task-based workflow

engine cutting across different tools.Ÿ End-to-end project coverage, real-time status view, increased

transparency, and release predictability.

Ÿ Powered by proprietary ESB having integrations with 80+ commercial tools.

Ÿ Notification at every level helps in eliminating manual handoffs.Ÿ Configurable policy engine allowing users to configure business rules

as needed. Ÿ Facilitates global collaborative work environment irrespective of time

zones.

THE KOVAIR ALM STUDIOA cost-effective comprehensive solution for integrated ALM and PPM

Requirements Management Defect Management

Integrated Test Management

Ÿ Requirements capture from MS Word, MS Excel, Text, Email, and Web pages or Elicitation tools.

Ÿ Rich text description and built-in modeling capability.Ÿ Versioning (Pictorial Representation, Comparison, branching and

merger of versions), cloning, and reuse.Ÿ Automated and collaborative review / approval process.Ÿ Traceability between requirements and other entities Hierarchical

Traceability Views, Traceability Matrix View, Traceability Network Diagram.

Ÿ Real-time defect monitoring and increased predictability on quality.Ÿ Facility to capture screenshot for logging defects.Ÿ Multiple reporting formats — release note, trends, graphical charts. Ÿ Prioritization of issues (Triage) and escalation based on defect

ageing.Ÿ Determination of duplicate issues and linking.Ÿ Automatic creation of defects from failed test cases.Ÿ Traceability Relations with proactive and reactive impact analysis.

Ÿ Allows organizations to organize their test artifacts in different folder hierarchy.

Ÿ Manual and automated testing from a single interface.Ÿ Complete support for test automation through integrations with

tools like QTP and Selenium.Ÿ Traceability of Test Cases with Requirements, Issues, Defects and

other artifacts.Ÿ Automated test scheduling and running of Test Cases in batches. Ÿ Maintenance of multiple versions of test artifacts such as Test Plan,

Test Case, Test Scenario.Ÿ Automated defect capturing from failed Test Cases into Kovair or

another repository.Ÿ Real-time reports and dashboards reflecting status of test cases.

Ÿ Project level visibility of risk importance, type, and status.Ÿ View Options — Normal and Group, Tool tip, Traceability and

flexible filters.Ÿ Dashboard and Reporting capabilities.Ÿ System pre-defined and custom forms for viewing risk details that

include risk description, versions, process and relation diagrams, mitigation plan based on preventive and corrective actions, risk tracking, multi-edit operations and linked issues-relation grid, etc.

Risk Management

Release Management

Kovair ALM Studio allows users to configure the solution as per their business needs. Other than the pre-configured modules as mentioned earlier, users can create different artifacts, their attributes or fields, views, filters, forms, reports and dashboards as per the business need.

Mouse Click Configurable Platform

With the mouse click configurable capability of Kovair ALM Studio, users can manage all different development methodologies like Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Agile Kanban, and Hybrid. Different projects can follow different methodology as decided by the organization.

Supports Waterfall, Kanban And Scrum

Ÿ Capabilities for managing different types of releases.Ÿ Configuring and controlling the entire release workflow.Ÿ Real-time monitoring of the progress of the release.Ÿ Creation of high quality Release Notes in a single click.

www.kovair.com

Organizing artifacts in different folders is a very common phenomenon in the industry. With Kovair ALM Studio, users can organize artifacts in a folder like structure. Different folder hierarchies can be created, and records can be organized within those. Users can also give permissions to these folders based on roles and responsibilities.

Folder Based Organization of Artifacts

Kovair ALM Studio allows users to view end-to-end traceability between artifacts. It provides graphical as well as textual representation of end-to-end Traceability based on cross-tool data. Some distinct capabilities are:

End-to-End Traceability

Ÿ Supports bidirectional cross tool end-to-end traceability.Ÿ Helps in doing both proactive and reactive impact analysis of a

change.Ÿ Helps to track different coverage real-time to ensure quality.Ÿ Allows to define relationship between artifacts in your own way.Ÿ Supports defining attributes specific to relations.

Kovair ALM Studio comes with a Task-based workflow that can be configured graphically over a web-based interface. In comparison to state-based workflow, the task-based workflow of Kovair has the following advantages:

Ÿ Enables configuration of a working process instead of imposing any in-built configuration.

Ÿ Task-based workflow in contrast to State-based workflow.Ÿ Eliminates manual handoff with combination of tasks and notifications.Ÿ Support for cross tool processes.Ÿ Multiple independent processes at different levels.Ÿ Supports conditional branching.Ÿ Supports both Micro and Macro level processes. Ÿ Web-based visual drag-n-drop designer.Ÿ Provision for defining process template at organization level for reuse

in multiple projects.

Task-based Workflow

CURRENT AVAILABILITY OF 80+ INTEGRATIONS FROM KOVAIR:

Kovair ALM Studio helps organizations to generate cross-tool data-based reports and dashboards in real time, which helps stakeholders to take critical business decisions.

Kovair allows users to create both textual and graphical reports and assign them to different users based on their roles and responsibilities. Dashboards created in Kovair ALM Studio also features Drilldown capability.

Real-Time Metrics and Cross-Tool Data Analytics

Kovair ALM Studio is supported with Kovair Omnibus — an SOA-architected ESB platform with 80+ commercial tool integrations. Kovair ALM Studio helps organizations to create an integrated development environment.

Kovair Omnibus allows organizations to integrate with all their existing tools to create an integrated tool ecosystem by protecting their investment.

Integration Support

Kovair ALM Studio offers a configurable policy engine that allows users to configure business rules as needed. These business rules can be used for different purposes namely —

Ÿ EscalationŸ Scheduled activitiesŸ Event-based actionsŸ Validations

Support for Business Rules

In an organization, every information need not be made accessible for everybody. Stakeholders should be exposed to information based on their roles and responsibilities. Kovair ALM Studio supports this capability in following ways:

Ÿ User-level permission at organization level.Ÿ Group-based granular access control on artifact records.Ÿ Role-based explicit access to individual records. Ÿ Conditional access to records based on Attribute value.

Role-based Access Control Mechanism

With Kovair ALM Studio, users can configure event or schedule-based notifications. Users can create different textual as well as HTML-based notification templates that can be used to send mails against different events or based on schedules. These notifications help to reduce manual communication between teams and ensure sharing of accurate information.

Support for Notification

US Corporate Office:

Kovair Software, Inc. 2410 Camino Ramon, STE 230San Ramon, CA 945831.408.262.0200 (T)

India Registered Office:

Kovair Software Pvt. Ltd.PTI Building, 6th Floor, DP- 9, Sector-VSalt Lake City, Kolkata – 70009191-33-4065 7016 / 17 / 18 / 19 (T) Extn. 109

Website: www.kovair.com Email: sales@kovair.com

Call us: 408 262 0200 Extn. 1

Bangalore Office:

Kovair Software Pvt. Ltd.Samad House, #402, 4th B cross, 7th A Main, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore- 56004391-95350 92589 (T)

Eclipse

IBM RAD

Visual Studio

Coding

JUnit

Unit & LoadTesting

TestAutomation

HP QTP

Selenium

IBM RFT

IBM uRelease

ReleaseManagement

RequirementManagement

IBM RequisitePro

IBM DOORS

iRise

IBM DOORS NG

Jama

VMware

Provisioning

IBM RSA

Design

Enterprise Architect

IBM Rhapsody

Simulink

TestManagement

IBM RQM

IBM RTRT

HP ALM

TestLink

TestTrack

BuildCode Analysis

LDRA

SonarQube

FindBugs

Web Analytics

Google Analytics

Marketing Automation

LeadSquared

Email Client

MS Outlook

JIRA

DefectManagement

Bugzilla

Redmine

Mantis

IBM ClearQuest

ChangeManagement

MS Project

ProjectManagement

Smartsheet

Mingle

CA Clarity

PortfolioManagement

IBMFocal Point

ServiceNow PPM

ITSM

Remedy

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

CA Agile Central

VersionOne

Kovair

CRM

Salesforce

OSLC forRDNG, RQM,

RTC

OpenStandards

jMeter

Polarion

ServiceNowPivotal Tracker

Jenkins

TeamCity

CloudBees Jenkins

Maven

PLM

SD Elements

Security

SharePoint

Content Management

Deployment

IBM uDeploy

Chef

Azure

PuppetPerforce

IBM ClearCase

Subversion

MS TFS / VSO

ConfigurationManagement

IBM RTC

GIT

GitHub

BitBucket

Helix ALM

ARAS Innovator

Windchill

KOVAIR OMNIBUS INTEGRATION PLATFORMBi-Directional ALM & IT Tools Integrations

Collaboration

●

Traceability

●

Process Automation

●

Analytics ●

Scalability

APM

AppDynamics

Ansible

HPSAW

JIRAService desk

JIRAGreenHopper

JIRA-Zephyr

Remedyforce

SmartBear

Tosca

XATester

Kovair

Kovair

Kovair

Kovair

KovairKovair