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IBM ELO – Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition extends the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) solution with integrations to a number of third-party tools. Customers are able to practice ELM in a diverse lifecycle tools environment, allowing them to leverage their current lifecycle tools investments.

Benefits

Heterogenous

Integration adapters enable the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management solution to coexist and interoperate with third-party tools.

Agile

Automated and continuous lifecycle tool integration allows more frequent builds and releases required for DevOps and engineering lifecycle management solutions.

Scalable

Integrations based on OSLC, with linked data specifications and other vendor-neutral services, allow organizations to adopt new tools from many providers.

Key features

Increased value

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Integration Adapters connect IBM ELM capabilities to third-party tools. Since these adapters are scalable and based on open standards, they help you gain more value from your software delivery environment by unifying across a diverse set of lifecycle tools. It uses an ELM dashboard to gather simple metrics (such as test requirement coverage and mean time to resolve defects) while working with heterogeneous ELM tools environments.

Versatile yet easy-to-use application lifecycle management

This software integrates IBM Engineering Workflow Management, Requirements Management DOORS® Next, Workflow Management & IBM Rational ClearQuest® to a number of third-party tools, including HP ALM/Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, CA Clarity, Rally, VersionOne, ThoughtWorks Mingle, and open source Bugzilla. It allows you to practice ELM using lifecycle tools from a diverse set of sources and adapts your environment to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products.

Advanced integration

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition uses adapters to select the best tool for the job. It provides automated and continuous lifecycle tool integration. Teams are enabled to create builds and deliver releases more frequently. A continuous integration model required for practicing DevOps and continuous engineering is supported.

Industry-leading scalability

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition uses adapters to select the best tool for the job. It provides automated and continuous lifecycle tool integration. Teams are enabled to create builds and deliver releases more frequently. A continuous integration model required for practicing DevOps and continuous engineering is supported.