Melillo Consulting HP Software Application Lifecycle Management Solutions ApplianceSpeed implementation of HP ALM solutions with the plug-and-play Melillo Pizza BoxSolution brief

Deploy HP Application Lifecycle Management solutions faster and accelerate resultsOrganizations of all sizes are developing and modifying software applications to further enhance the productivity and agility of their businesses. But building and managing applications can be more complicated than ever as a result of evolving development processes, new architectures and technologies, and the changing dynamics of development team collaboration. The challenge is acute for those businesses that previously didn’t employ application development and quality assurance teams and processes, or for those that lack higher levels of technological expertise.

Managing the complexity of application design, development, and quality today calls for an optimized, end-to-end application lifecycle that allows IT organizations to deliver applications quickly, securely, and reliably. That, too, can pose challenges without the help of tools such as HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, methodologies, and processes. The HP ALM portfolio includes HP ALM, HP Quality Center, and automation solutions. They are designed to improve the quality, predictability, and agility of the application lifecycle. HP ALM solutions accelerate application transformation by empowering application teams to plan, build, and prepare for the release of applications, components, and services with fewer delays and better quality.

Melillo Consulting, an HP Software Platinum Business Partner, developed the Melillo Pizza Box solution to implement and customize HP ALM deployments, delivering faster results.

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The Melillo Pizza Box: a turnkey approach to reduce HP ALM solutions’ implementation time, lower costs, and accelerate results Organizations whose IT and application development teams are constrained by time, personnel, and budget issues can utilize Melillo Consulting and the Melillo Pizza Box solution to implement and customize their HP ALM deployments. Melillo Consulting has developed an approach that can be as simple as inserting a USB drive into a server.

The Melillo Pizza Box simplifies the implementation and adoption of HP ALM solutions. It is preconfigured, packaged, and delivered on a plug-and-play HP BladeSystem blade server running as a VMware virtual machine or dedicated server/database. The Pizza Box comes with a customized HP quality management implementation and is available in small, medium, and large sizes—depending on the size of your organization and complexity of your HP ALM configuration. It can also be delivered to you as a download or in a USB thumb drive.

The Melillo Pizza Box helps organizations significantly reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to implement HP ALM solutions on standard hardware. In fact, onsite installations and configurations of HP ALM solutions that usually take up to four weeks can now be completed in as little as one day by using the Melillo Pizza Box.

Why HP ALM solutions are critical to your application development processHP ALM and HP Quality Center are enterprise software solutions that provide a centralized management platform that application teams can use to manage and automate activities and information throughout the complete application development process. HP ALM solutions enable IT departments to deliver software applications and services across heterogeneous environments quickly, securely, and reliably.

HP ALM solutions help organizations to:•Attain real-time visibility into and manage quality

across the application lifecycle•Centrally manage and enforce consistent workflows

and processes•Enforce standardized processes and best practices•Manage multiple versions of requirements, tests,

test scripts, and business components•Reduce duplication of effort across projects•Prioritize testing based on business risk•Access testing assets anytime, anywhere via a

browser interface•Accelerate testing cycles by automatically scheduling

and running unattended tests•Facilitate collaboration and communication among

internal and external stakeholder groups and across multiple projects

•Track and manage defects

Key components related to quality and managementThe HP ALM solutions’ approach to quality management is intended to make quality assurance an integrated part of your development cycle from day 1. Designed to promote collaboration among all of your stakeholders, it enables your quality assurance teams to get out of the business of certifying software and into the business of providing a true risk assessment.

HP ALM solutions specific to quality management include HP ALM 11, HP Quality Center, HP LoadRunner, HP QuickTest Professional, HP Performance Center, HP SiteScope, and HP QAInspect. •HP ALM 11 is a unified platform for accelerating

and simplifying application delivery and empowering application teams—which include quality and development teams—to deliver better results to the business. HP ALM 11 provides actionable information and workflows designed to accelerate delivery of secure, reliable, modern applications. Its key capabilities include cross-project planning and tracking, requirements definition and management with integration to business process models, complete traceability from requirements through developer tasks, testing and defects, and support for multiple development methodologies such as agile and waterfall. In addition, HP ALM 11 shares a common foundation with HP Quality Center and supports complete quality planning and management, asset sharing, innovative manual testing with HP Sprinter, and integrated automated testing.

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•HP Quality Center software manages application quality across the entire application lifecycle. It provides requirements management, release and cycle management, test management, defect management, and reporting—all from a single platform. It also includes a robust repository for your test cases and defects. To close the loop on your application lifecycle, HP Quality Center includes a full-featured requirements management system with a risk-based quality management module so that you can effectively gauge the risk of release.

•HP LoadRunner is automated performance and load-testing software that generates actual loads while examining system behavior and performance. It can emulate thousands of concurrent users to put an application through real-life user loads. At the same time, it collects information from your Web and database servers. HP LoadRunner also has the capability to analyze the results and examine specific behaviors and issues such as bottlenecks to help isolate and remediate performance issues.

•HP QuickTest Professional software is a functional and regression test automation tool for software applications and environments. It captures, verifies, and replays user interactions automatically and helps you quickly identify and report on application effects. It also offers sophisticated functionality for collaboration among testers. Using keywords, you can build test cases by capturing flows directly from application screens and applying robust record/replay capturing technology. With new application builds, you need to update only one reference in the shared repository, and the update is propagated to all referencing tests.

•HP Performance Center is a performance-testing platform and framework to help standardize and centralize your performance testing while enabling global collaboration and the formation of testing centers of excellence (COE). Built on LoadRunner software, Performance Center reduces the cost of application load testing and helps utilize testing assets and pools of licenses more efficiently, improves testing processes by tracking and linking defects to requirements, identifies trends across multiple tests and iterations, and enables a performance-testing COE for improved efficiency, quality, and collaboration.

•HP SiteScope delivers agent-less monitoring that complements existing agent-based solutions to help you maintain the availability and performance of a distributed IT infrastructure. This proactive, Web-based software provides a centralized view of your entire infrastructure without installing agents or software on production systems. You can gain real-time information to verify operations, stay apprised of problems, and quickly address bottlenecks.

•HP QAInspect software allows quality-assurance professionals to incorporate fully automated Web application security testing into your overall test management process without the need for specialized security knowledge and without the risk of slowing aggressive product release schedules.

The Melillo HP ALM solutions Pizza Box appliance incorporates these components into its configuration solution based on your customization requirements. It allows multiple concurrent users to access HP ALM, HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center, HP SiteScope, and HP QAInspect software, and provides access to HP QuickTest Professional and HP LoadRunner based on the size of the Pizza Box you choose.

How Melillo accelerates HP ALM solution implementationBefore you implement an HP ALM solution, a Melillo consultant will meet with you to determine the components and features that are right for your organization. This will include the number and type of licenses you need along with the specific applications, workflow parameters, and quality management levels.

After the assessment, we’ll configure your HP ALM solution to your specifications and deliver it on a ready-to-go HP BladeSystem blade server running as a VMware virtual machine or dedicated server/database. You also have the option of having it delivered as an appliance on a thumb drive, as a packaged VMware virtual machine, or as a download. As part of your Melillo Consulting Pizza Box acquisition, Melillo will provide ready-to-run scripts configured for your application and training so that your team will be self-sufficient after the implementation has been completed. The Melillo Pizza Box also enables a simplified upgrade path to new versions of HP ALM solutions. In addition to being a non-intrusive process that eliminates the need for specific in-house technical knowledge, the Melillo solution can be listed as a capital expenditure on your ledger.

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Selecting the right Melillo Pizza Box sizeMelillo HP ALM Pizza Box solutions are available in three sizes: small, medium, and large. Standard configurations include test management, automated functional testing, load testing, security testing, and system monitoring. Advanced configurations can be customized to include service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. Not all features/functions are available in all configurations. You also have the option to request additional products that meet your specific needs.

Why the Melillo Consulting HP ALM solutions appliance is right for your businessAs a technology solutions integrator that provides IT expertise geared to midsize and enterprise customers, Melillo Consulting has a combined 20-plus years of experience with the HP Software ALM suite. We created the Melillo Pizza Box plug-and-play appliance to help customers save time, save money, and accelerate results when adopting HP ALM solutions.

About Melillo ConsultingMelillo Consulting, an HP Software Platinum Business Partner, leverages years of experience in assessing unique business situations and developing plans to maximize your investment in business service monitoring. Melillo works with customers in all industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. The company employs a proven methodology that provides highly trained professionals with outstanding project management skills. Melillo’s expertise in HP software has consistently earned it recognition as a leading HP partner, and its implementations have won awards for unique and outstanding services, year after year.

About HPAs the world’s largest technology company, HP has a unique ability to provide complete solutions that encompass servers, storage, networking, and software. And by partnering with Melillo Consulting, HP ensures that this remarkable breadth of capabilities is applied to solutions that increase efficiency and reduce downtime.

For more informationTo learn more about the Melillo Consulting HP ALM solutions Pizza Box plug-and-play appliance, visit:www.melillo.com

www.hp.com/go/ALM

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