Release Management is as important as any of the ITIL processes that normally take place in the IT Lifecycle of an enterprise. The importance of a sound Release Management plan is quite obvious if we look at the challenges that organizations are facing when deploying or upgrading applications, hardware components. The key objective is to protect the live environment whilst enabling changes and enhancements to be implemented in a controlled manner, in order to minimize the risk of business pr...

Enterprises and its respective groups working on software delivery know that their efficiency level can rise up when tools used are collaborating together. The focus is maintained on traceability and responsibilities across the processes which helps to avoid any kind of manual overload. In the recent past, these tools have witnessed an evolution from point oriented tools , resolving selected narrow requirements in the software delivery lifecycle.

OSLC Integration defined
The OSLC Integration i...

The highly technological business world has brought in a number of challenges for the IT organizations and service providers. In their attempt to meet the demands of the customers which ranges from delivering quality IT services in accordance with business goals, to enhanced and efficient service, good return on investment and synchronizing between people process and technology, IT management has seen a serious drift from the techno-centric one to a service oriented one.

However, in face of...

Customer demands and scientific inventions have led to the technological innovations which helped organizations expand to wider geographical regions. To meet the aggressive competition prevalent in the globalize environment, the organizations need to be constantly upgrading on their products, services and applications or deploying new ones. Further these applications or software which is compliant to the IT governance and practices are also bound by a life cycle.

ALM or Application Lifec...

Many organizations use a number of lifecycle tools that need to share data, resources and assets. And while the existing integration methods are usually based on proprietary point-to-point APIs. With Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) there is eaiser and more effective integrations between the many tools that software and product developers use.  OSLC  offers a set of rules as to how software development tools present and share their information with other tools.  A well defined...