In the software development process, the software development team uses several tools for improving the quality and efficiency of the products and for maximizing productivity and timely delivery. Some of these tools include Requirements Management tools, Test Management tools, Issue Management tools, Risk Management tools, Release Management tools, Document Management tools, and IT Project Management tools. Hence, one of the daunting tasks faced by both local and global organizations is with...

With a large number of business services being managed by Information Technology these days, organizations are investing in Information Technology solutions to achieve maximum customer satisfaction. Providing better visibility into IT operations and functional services, IT Service Management (ITSM) is a methodology that has a straight forward approach towards the roles and responsibilities of people taking care of IT service operations. 

In any service organization, the implementation of IT...

Application Lifecycle Management is also known as ALM and is referred to as the capacity of organizing, collating together and managing the various phases of the software delivery procedure. It is observed that ALM is essential for development to execution of any project and includes a suite of tools and processes that take into account design, definition, testing, development, deployment and management. Hence, ALM tools are established keeping in mind the business as well as the IT perspect...

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...