HP App lication Lifecycle Management software
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table.main {} tr.row {} td.cell {} div.block {} div.paragraph {} .font0 { font:8.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } .font1 { font:11.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } Data sheet In today's instant-on enterprise, business innovation is fueled by nimble software applications. And predictable, high-quality application delivery is now more important than ever. HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) software is a powerful, unified platform for your application teams to plan, build and accelerate delivery of the secure, reliable applications that drive innovation and enhance customer satisfaction. Modern application delivery demands modern solutions Your business demands more from IT. But you face decades of investment in legacy IT infrastructure and applications. How can you innovate faster and deliver richer software functionality now while maintaining quality and keeping costs down? Success begins by embracing application transformation designed to assess, modernize and manage your application portfolio. And, application modernization is vital to transform your software portfolio to meet business needs. However, the means of modernization distributed teams, iterative methodologies, new architectures such as service-oriented and composite applications, Web 2.0 technologies, mobile platforms and cloud-sourced componentsחpose new challenges to your teams. In fact, many organizations have embraced modernization without fully accounting for the logistical complexities of making it work. HP ALM is designed for teams tasked with managing the logistical complexities of delivering modern applications at the speed of business. A role-based platform, HP ALM manages all aspects of application delivery from requirements through development, testing and readiness for delivery. Application modernization challenges release predictability Today's modern applications are made up of many moving parts. Composite application architectures are being rapidly adopted as they are easier to change. However, managing components and services across disparate teams to deliver a composite application is difficult. Traditionally, releases have been managed in project silos. Communication among disparate teams suffers while application delivery tasks across composite application teams must be orchestrated predictably, stressing management processes. IT often manages groups of services and composite applications as enterprise releases or in "enterprise release trains." The components ready for production are included in the release; those components or services that aren't ready must wait until the next release train. This volatile combinationmanaging more moving parts and dependencies and aligning release trainsחis addressed with ALM software. Change readiness demands cross-team visibility and intelligence The only thing constant for today's application teams is change. As change readiness drives breaking up monolithic applications into shareable components built and tested by distributed and outsourced teams, the challenge for the application project manager is to quickly assess health and status of the application release and to address impact of a change. This can be overwhelming without automation and insight. ALM software is foundational for delivering the right information to the right people at the right time to adjust plans, address change impact and ultimately deliver predictably. About HP ALM software HP ALM is a unified platform for managing and automating activities, insight and assets to deliver applications from requirements through development, testing and readiness for delivery. HP ALM integrates with upstream project portfolio management software and downstream deployment, monitoring and incident management software to drive complete lifecycle management of applications from inception to retirement. With HP ALM, application teams can deliver modernized applications up to two times faster, while reducing production issues by 80% on average. HP ALM is founded on the proven HP Quality Center platform and expands HP Quality Center Enterprise software with enhanced functionality to address the ALM needs of enterprises from projects to enterprise release trains. HP ALM is ideal for adopting an application center of excellence (COE) approach. HP ALM supports driving consistent processes, shared best-practices and asset sharing across projects, and improves collaboration across business analysts, development and testing teams. Built on a standards-based, easily extended architecture and centralized repository, HP ALM is one of the first unified technology-agnostic application delivery systems available now. Key HP ALM features and benefits Project Planning and Tracking: Predictable application delivery needs awareness of progress and alignment with goals and milestones, and the ability to access updated information without relying on error-prone manual data gathering. HP ALM enables teams to define, track, measure and report project milestones and key performance

table.main {} tr.row {} td.cell {} div.block {} div.paragraph {} .font0 { font:5.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } .font1 { font:8.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } .font2 { font:18.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } "Implementing HP application modernization solutions across the entire lifecycle helped us realize savings of several million dollars over a three-year period." Todd Eaton, Director, CTO Office - Development Support Services, via Healthcare IT News, Nov. 30, 2010 HP ALI leverages the HP ALM software framework for traceability to assess the risk of change all the way from source code to tests,...

table.main {} tr.row {} td.cell {} div.block {} div.paragraph {} .font0 { font:8.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } .font1 { font:11.00pt "Arial", sans-serif; } Cross-project reporting: To gain fui! insight into all your applications initiatives and make informed enterprise release dcisions, you need a holistic view of your enterprise release with the ability to drill into individual projects. HP ALM provides cross-project reporting with aggregated project status metrics, application quality metrics, requirements coverage, and defect trends for both an enterprise release and individual project...