Webinar presentation: Integration SparxEA - HP QC/ALM

Integrations with
agosense.symphony
Sparx Enterprise Architect – HP Quality Center/ALM
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Webinar number 1 | 20 February 2014 | 4pm – 5pm (CET)
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Agenda
1
Tool-Integration – Why?
2
About agosense & agosense.symphony
3
Integration Sparx Enterprise Architect – HP Quality Center / ALM
3.1 Process Integration Sparx EA – RM-Tool
3.2 Demo video: Integration Sparx EA– HP QC/ALM
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Questions & Answers
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1 Tool integration - why? Motivation
•  Reduce manual work
•  Increase user comfort
•  Reduce error sources
•  Ensure data accuracy
•  Show references / traceability
•  Enforce development processes
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1 Tool integration - why? Basics
Integrated ALM
platform
Point-to-point
integration
Plug-In
technology
Integration platform (bus, hub, etc.)
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1  Tool integration - Integrated ALM platform
Advantage
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Provides implicit integration for the supported domains
(Single Repository)
Disadvantages
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Integrations rules and logic is fixed , not much individualization
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Unsupported domains have to be integrated anyway
(PM, test automation, etc.)
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Tools with higher specialization / tools which are already in use
should be integrated as well
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1  Tool integration - Point-to-Point and Plug-In
Advantage
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Fast and easy installation
Disadvantages
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No processes / automation
Manually controlled / error-prone
Additional interfaces for users
Compatibility with updates
Different technology for each integration
Robustness / scalability
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1 Tool integration – Challenges
Self-development /
application development
Tool vendors
•  No business model – no
priority
•  Less know-how for 3rd
party tools (competition)
•  Dependency on updates
•  Finger-Pointing (support)
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•  Maintenance concerning
changes/ updates
•  Support
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External Plug-Ins
•  Fix functionalities, no
extensions
•  (uncontrolled) local
distribution
•  Support
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2 About agosense
Hard facts
Founded:
2009
Place of business: Kornwestheim (Stuttgart)
- Sales, Development, Support agosense?
ago
sense
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to propel, to set in motion
(innovation)
notice, be aware of
(we understand customers & partners)
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2 About agosense
Important partnerships
Selected customers
...
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2 Tool-Integration with agosense.symphony
•  Integration of software and system
development tools into a continuous
process chain
•  Support of all current tools
•  Implementation of your in-house
development tools
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2 Data exchange with agosense.symphony
•  Automated data exchange with
external partners
•  Direct connection to customer or
partner portals
•  Integration scenarios can be adapted
to suite individual needs
•  Support of current standard formats
for all tools: ReqIF, RIF, ASAM, ...
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2 About agosense.symphony: Architecture
•  Tools linked to platform via specific
adapters
•  Independent of software vendor and
version
•  Data synchronisation invisibly in the
background
•  Variant range of integration scenarios,
individually configurable
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2 About agosense.symphony: Architecture
Simple graphic modeling
of the individual
integration scenarios
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2 agosense.symphony: User-Interface
Configuration Module
Mapping Module
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2 agosense.symphony: User-Interface
Reporting Module
Diagnosis Module
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3 agosense.symphony for IT managers
Standard product
reduction in integration and
maintenance costs
Securing your investments
Con6nued use of your exis6ng systems Process automation
improved quality and increased
productivity
Best-of-breed
Independence from tool versions and so2ware manufacturers Reliability
Software made
in Germany
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3 agosense.symphony for developers
Server-based integration
no client installa6on Flexible configuration
fully adaptable to customer‘s needs
Only one adapter per tool
Reduced number of interfaces,
as well for n:m integrations
Controls
Synchronisa6on controlled by schedule, event or manually Scenarios
multiple configurations for the
same tool combinations
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3 agosense.symphony in IT operations
Transactionality / error tolerance
Dynamic client management
Parallel execution of
integration processes
Multi-tenancy capability
Process modeling for simple
up to complex integration
scenarios
Cluster capability
Automatic Failover
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3 Process: Integration Sparx EA – HP QC/ALM
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3.1
Process: Integration Sparx EA – HP QC/ALM
The intention: effective collaboration
between requirement engineers and
system architects
•  Requirements Engineers create
requirements in an individual
hierarchy in their own tool
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3.1
Process: Integration Sparx EA – HP QC/ALM
The translation: agosense.symphony
translates attributes between Sparx EA
and the RM-Tool
•  Both tools are linked to
agosense.symphony with adapters
•  Individual configuration of the
synchronisation of requirements and
the processes
•  Bidirectional sychronisation of
requirements in same hierarchy
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3.1
Process: Integration Sparx EA – HP QC/ALM
On Sparx Enterprise Architect side:
•  System architects get requirements in
their usual work environment and...
•  create use cases models and relate
them to respective requirements
•  Relevant diagrams are synchronised
to RM-Tool
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3.2
Demo video
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4 Questions & Answers
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