OSLC Integrations overview

Maximo IT applications and some external applications can link and share data by using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) integration.

The OSLC community, a group of software developers and organizations, is working to standardize how software lifecycle tools share data such as requirements, defects, test cases, and change history.

OSLC integration is accomplished between a consumer application and an external provider application. The OSLC provider application makes its resource data available to the consumer application through containers, which are also known as service providers. With the resource data made available, the consumer application can create links between its data and the resource data of the provider application. You can configure and enable any application in your product to act as an OSLC consumer application.

For more information about OSLC integration, see OSLC Integrations in the Integrating with external applications section of this documentation.