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Slide 1: Understanding the Value Proposition of Enterprise Integration In most enterprises, it is often found that tools do not communicate with each other. Developers, usually work in isolation based on their functions, technology, geographic or plant locations, in the product development lifecycle. While organizations use the best of breed tools from several vendors, there is rarely any kind interconnectivity and data transferability, except when point to point integrations are carried out. To ensure an integrated picture of the different facets of the development cycle, it is necessary to have a single data repository for issues and other ALM entities to reside in the same repository. With a technology that is SOA based, it is possible to eliminate the need for point to point integrations. A bus or hub architecture for integrations, bring considerable savings in both development and maintenance costs for upgrades for new versions of tools. As today’s multi locations and outsourced development environment, requires a Requirements Management tool based in a certain location to be able to communicate with a Test tool based a far away geographical location, it has become essential to adopt an omnibus technology that can deliver this need. How the omnibus technology can help The omnibus technology does not require hard coding of business rules as the data layer is divided from the business layer. It is open to any type of software from any vendor including home grown tools or data bases for integrations with SOA architecture and the omnibus integrations enhance the capabilities of other tools by way of introducing process capabilities that is built the other tools. This technology also has a few distinctive advantages that include significant savings in development and maintenance costs Increasing the ROI Organizations that have investments in multiple tools can attain outstanding value proposition to improve ROI in two important ways. One way would be providing the capabilities to integrate tools at a relatively low cost, and the other would be investing in a proficient cost saving solution. Organizations talk about Collaborative Development, Development Platform offerings and similar value propositions but usually there is no company in the ALM domain that offers a bus based architecture that allows integrations with any tool from any vendor. A convincing value proposition of an omnibus technology for integration of tools must not be ignored by any selector of ALM Tools or ITSM tools. A proper integrated Application Lifecycle Management permits integrations with any tool from any vendor and allows customers to enhance the value of these various tools while concurrently enhancing the ROI as well. Learn more about: - service request management & requirements traceability matrix