Kovair Omnibus allows enterprise application integration and synchronization through its Omnibus Integration Platform. Integrate and synchronize standard multi-vendor ALM tools using Kovair adapters, plug-ins and build your own integrated ALM platform.
5. Advantages of ESB model
Enterprise Service Bus Point to Point Custom Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
10 Bi-Directional Adapters 45 Custom Coded Integrations
6. Comparison of Integration Approaches
Item Point-to-point
Integration
Single Vendor
Integration
ALM Integration
Middleware
View artifacts managed by
one Tool from another Tool
Medium – Fair High – Good Very High – Excellent
Create relationship between
any two Artifacts
Limited – Fair High – Good Very High – Excellent
Automate a process cutting
across the tool boundaries
None – Poor Limited – Fair
Hard coded
Very High – Excellent
Manage Projects and
Resources across the tools
None – Poor Limited – Fair Very High – Excellent
Create Cross tools Analytics
and Dashboards
Limited – Fair Limited – Fair Very High – Excellent
Effort to create and maintain
integration with a tool
Very High – Poor Medium – Good Low – Excellent
Utilizing existing tools Very High – Excellent Low – Poor Very High – Excellent
Migration and Training Effort Low – Excellent Very High – Poor Low – Excellent
8. Kovair Architecture Framework
ANT
Federated
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Requirements
Kovair
ANT
Legacy Data Entities
JUnit
SVN
Kovair
Issues
Development Package
Kovair
SVN
Federated
Legacy Data
RDBMS
XML
Spreadsheet
JUnit
Synchronized/
Federated
Collaboration, Traceability, Consolidated Reports, Synchronized Process
10. Components
Component Name Application Type Platform Web
Server
Web Server OS Database Server Database
Server OS
Kovair Global Lifecycle - Web
Application
Web Application .NET 3.5 IIS 6.0 or
above
Windows SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Kovair Global Lifecycle –
Windows Services
Windows Service .NET 3.5 NA NA SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Omnibus Engine Windows Service .NET 3.5 NA NA SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Omnibus Engine Web Service WCF Service .NET 3.5 IIS 6.0 or
above
Windows SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Omnibus Adapters WCF Service .NET 3.5 IIS 6.0 or
above
Windows SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Omnibus Adapter – Event
Services
Windows Service .NET 3.5 NA NA SQL Server 2005
or above
Windows
Omnibus Plug-Ins Plug-Ins .Net 3.5/
Java
NA NA NA NA