Application Lifecycle Management
What prompted organizations to embrace Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)?
The change was always constant but rapid digitalization transformed the way organizations operate due to growing demands and increasing customer expectation. To meet this growing demand, enterprises started depending upon innovation to build and implement new software that can ease organizational challenges through integration and a robust approach. This triggered the prerequisite for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) that could structure the entire lifecycle of a product or an application to be monitored and modified as per requirement.
Unified Application Lifecycle Management: The single source of truth
The integrated application lifecycle management model allows organizations to collaborate, streamline, automate the process of product development, enhances product quality while maintaining quality standards and compliance apart from reducing production time and cost. The ALM solution ensures end-to-end traceability in all phases of application lifecycle management process flow while enhancing effectiveness and efficiency in development, testing, and application maintenance phases.
Key advantages of ALM
Create compatibility with the growing software and hardware complexity
Maintain a single source of truth (SSOT)
Ensure seamless software integration across all the phases of the ALM process
Track and handle complete product lifecycle management applications
Visual and cognitive representation of the process flow
Enhance process compliance
Mitigate risk effectively and efficiently
Initiate and manage comprehensive audit structure
Enable collaboration across all roles within the organization
Deliver higher quality products, applications, and systems in less time
Deliver higher quality products, applications and systems, faster time to market
Offering Application Lifecycle Management solution: The MicroGenesis way
With over two decades of experience in application lifecycle management consulting, MicroGenesis is one of the leading solutions providers of holistic and secure application lifecycle management process flow. We have partnered with leading ALM vendors to deliver suitable ALM solutions to our clients to help them scale-up in the market and transform their application process flow into a robust endeavor. With the zeal to progress, our team of experts is consistent in knowledge acquisition to offer customized ALM solutions to clients across various geographical boundaries.
A well-planned project is the foundation for a successful project delivery.
Poor requirements management is one of the key contributing factors to the failure of a project
Prototype, simulate and execute designs for early validation
Configuration management is a process for establishing, maintaining and tracking versions of artefacts such as project
Report on key quality metrics to ensure the business goals and objectives of the software releases are met
Track the progress of the defect or change request
Identify, capture, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and monitor the risk during the lifecycle of product
Poor requirements management is one of the key contributing factors to the failure of a project
Prototype, simulate and execute designs for early validation
Variant Management and Componentization
Variant management is essential to harness the power of reuse, an increase in productivity, and reduction of duplication and delays. It enables the grouping of products into product lines and explicit variants in the context of cross-disciplinary product line engineering without duplication of data.
The application platforms we rely upon for variant management and componentization
- IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
- Siemens Polarion ALM
Audit Metrics and Reports
Audit Metrics are essential to understand the project status whereas, reports with efficient format control enables external review, certification, and project documentation.
An integrated reporting application ensures automated report generation from multiple data sources while avoiding inconsistency and duplication of data
The application platforms we rely upon for audit metrics and reports
- IBM Engineering lifecycle optimization – Publishing
- Jazz Reporting Service.
Risk and Hazard Management
Risk is the possibility that an event may occur and adversely impact the objective of the software lifecycle management. It is generally caused due to a lack of information, control, or time. An ALM solution helps to monitor and manage risk by capturing, identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing, to trace and mitigate it.
The application platforms we rely upon for risk and hazard management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- Siemens Polarion
Change Management and Defect Tracking
A change management solution is essential within the ALM process flow to track and manage the ever-increasing change requests from various sources to ensure that a change request goes through a predefined set of processes to be analyzed, reviewed, and validated before implementation.
A defect on the other hand is identified when the expected and actual result doesn’t match during the test execution phase. Defect tracking is essential to capture, examine, and review the defect identified to fix the same within the stipulated time.
The application platforms we rely upon for build and release management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- IBM Rational ClearQuest
- Siemens Polarion
Build and Release Management
Build management is the process of converting source code files into binary files to reflect on end-users’ computers. It is a pre-release version of a program within the ALM process flow. The release management on the other hand is the process intended to oversee the development, testing, deployment, and support of software releases. This phase ensures setting-up and automation of development and delivery without compromising the consistency, integrity, and regulatory compliance.
The application platforms we rely upon for build and release management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- Siemens Polarion ALM
Testing and Quality Management
Post implementation, the phase of testing and quality check gains prominence. Testing ensures verification and validation of developed product. A test management solution supports software and system-based testing with manual efforts as well as automation-based testing. This empowers the team to deliver a quality product with improved operational efficiency and lower risk.
The application platforms we rely upon for testing and quality management
- Engineering Test Management
- Siemens Polarion QM
- Rational Function Tester
- Rational Performance Tester
- Rational Test Realtime
Configuration Management
Configuration management is a standard process that organizations depend upon to manage the changes introduced to their software products and applications. It empowers teams to establish, maintain and track changes introduced to complex software systems through reliable version selection and version control of artifacts.
The application platforms we rely upon for configuration management
- IBM Engineering Workflow management
- IBM Global Configuration Management
- Siemens Polarion ALM
Design, Modelling and Development
Design & modelling is required during the lifecycle to deliver critical capabilities that help systems engineers and software developers to create embedded and real-time products & applications and face demands for complex, connected deliverables – usually with little time to produce and test the systems and software before they go into production.
The application platforms we rely upon for design, modeling, and development
- IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
- IBM Rational Software Architect
Requirements Management
Requirements management is a continuous process of tracing, analyzing, prioritizing, and documenting requirements throughout a project. Poor requirements management is one of the key contributing factors to the failure of a project that can lead to rework, quality issues, and cost overrun. ALM requirements management provides clarity of what is needed thus avoiding wastage of time, resources, and effort.
The significant increase in engineering data and complexity requires new ways to capture and manage requirements across the entire product lifecycle. Being able to capture relationships and manage dependencies across many variants and to collaborate in real-time with teammates across other locations is common.
The application platforms we rely upon for requirements management
- IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
- IIBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family
- Siemens Polarion Requirements
Project Planning
Project planning is the key aspect of successful project completion and a well-planned project is a foundation for successful project delivery. The fundamentals are associated with resource planning, setting timelines, planning deliverables, and marking achievable milestones.
The application platforms we rely upon for project planning
- Atlassian Jira
- IBM Engineering Workflow Management
- Siemen Polarian ALM
Our offerings make us unique
We offer our clients application lifecycle management services in the form of ALM solutions
Data Migration
Data migration is an integral part of application lifecycle management consulting. Implementation of an ALM solution is incomplete without migration of the on-going projects from open-source or third-party applications to the ALM platform. We have years of experience in data migration to optimize the ALM process opted by our clients while also suggesting improvement for better usage of the additional features available in the ALM solutions.
Integrations Adapters
Cross-tool integration is critical within the ALM process in either obtaining end-to-end metrics or trying to integrate disparate tools to improve collaboration and reduce duplication of effort. We offer our expertise in developing integration adapters and bridges to integrate third-party applications, homegrown solutions, open-source tools, and legacy tools.
Plugins & Extensions
We encourage plugins and extensions with the objective to provide additional functionality as well as to modify core functionality. It enhances the existing features and capability of the ALM solutions. We at MicroGenesis have the required expertise and extensive experience in developing and implementing plugins.
Model Based System Engineering
Our ALM solutions offering contains an exclusive program of educating our clients on the innumerable benefits and the overall importance of model-based system engineering (MBSE) through training sessions and complete handholding until the implementation process.
Consulting, Customization & Implementation
We offer advisory and engineering services across domains in the form of the following;
- Setting up lifecycle-based project areas based on industry specific standards in the ALM applications
- Customizing the project areas ELM applications as per the customer requirement to create custom artefacts, attributes, work item types, workflows, etc
- Create UML, SysML based designs in Rhapsody and RSA
- Design RPE based report templates to publish customer specific reports
- Design dashboards and live widgets using JRS and publish the same in the ELM applications
- Regular upgrade to latest versions and patches
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Regular application and database backup monitoring
- Enablement sessions for new team members
- RTRT based TDP development and customization
- DXL scripting for IBM Rational DOORS
Installation, Upgradation and Migration
The installation process of ALM solutions is complex and time-consuming and we assist in managing the complex deployment of the applications based on the available infrastructure and recommended topologies.
- Departmental topologies
- Enterprise topologies
- Federated topologies
- Customized topologies
License Procurement
Along with the license, we offer certain value-added services that assist our clients to embrace the ALM platform. The following are the services that help to embed the ALM process within the client organization.
- Pre-installation assessment
- Application rollout
- Deployment of the license keys
- Testing and validation of the environment
- One-time enablement on the purchased solution
- Online support during the license tenure
ALM Training
We offer our clients application lifecycle management services in the form of ALM solutions. To ensure a successful ALM roll out by leveraging our courses on ALM solutions. To unlock the full potential of ALM solutions, we provide training on IBM ELM, IBM Rational (legacy), Siemens Polarion, Intland CodeBeamer and Atlassian solutions.
Below is the detailed list of training we provide on the ALM solutions
- IBM Rational DOORS / IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS
- IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation / IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next Generation
- IBM Rational Rhapsody / IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
- IBM Rational Team Concert / IBM Engineering Workflow Management
- IBM Rational quality manager / IBM Engineering Test Management
- IBM Rational Publishing Engine / IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing
- IBM Rational ClearCase
- IBM Rational ClearQuest
- IBM Rational Rose
- IBM Rational Functional Tester
- IBM Rational Performance Tester
- IBM Appscan
- IBM Urban Code
- Siemens Polarion – ALM
- Siemens Polarion – RM
- Siemens Polarion – QM
- Intland CodeBanner – ALM
Our ALM Technology Partners
