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Application and data – the yin and yang of integration

In ConnectALL by ConnectALL Marketing

  IT integration has two major forms: application integration and data integration. To understand the two and what they mean for your business, it is necessary to learn about their history, the technologies they are based on, what each one is meant to accomplish, and their future.  

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Using multiple ALM tools alongside IBM Rational DOORS: Tips for living with DOORS

In ConnectALL by Brett Taylor

Because Go2Group’s ConnectALL ALM Router unifies many ALM tools, we see it all! And even as newer tools emerge, we see IBM Rational DOORS live on at Fortune 50 manufacturers. It’s a challenge — DOORS is not for the weak or timid! It takes some effort to get set up and configured correctly. Managing changes to DOORS is very difficult. Security can be a nightmare. So once it’s working, who wants to mess with it?

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ALM integration options from least to most effective

In ConnectALL, Tech Talk by Johnathan McGowan

The use of multiple application lifecycle management (ALM) systems can lower user productivity and create errors. There are several ways to connect and integrate multiple ALM systems. Here’s a list of integration options for unifying multiple ALM systems, in the fashion of a military ranking scale. The list begins with the do-nothing, integration-less approach and culminates with the most optimal approach to ALM integration: the enterprise service bus. Rank: Civilian (do nothing) There’s no rule stating that you have to connect and integrate multiple ALM systems! Doing nothing is a no-cost, but no-benefit, approach that leads to ALM islands that do not have the ability …

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To ESB or not to ESB: A consulting partner’s perspective

In ConnectALL, Tech Talk by ConnectALL Marketing

In 2009, MuleSoft founder Ross Mason shocked his IT audience with a blog post entitled “To ESB or not to ESB.” The premise: not everyone should deploy an enterprise service bus (ESB). In particular, he offered that applications with minimal protocol and transportation requirements might be better off by skipping the use of an ESB. When developing the integration platform for its’ ConnectALL ALM Router, Go2Group embraced the market-leading Mule ESB, even with Go2Group’s minimal protocol and transportation requirements. In fact, Go2Group felt MuleSoft’s ESB was the only way to go for ConnectALL. Doug Bass, Go2Group’s chief architect, explained why in a speech at the recent MuleSoft CONNECT 2015 event. …

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HP ALM/Quality Center SaaS ConnectALL Adapter released

In ConnectALL by ConnectALL Marketing

Expanding on our success with HP ALM software, we at Go2Group are announcing the release of the  HP ALM/Quality Center SaaS ConnectALL Adapter at HP Discover 2015. Designed for use with the ConnectALL ALM Router, the adapter allows for integration between HP’s installed base of ALM/Quality Center customers and other departmental ALM systems. This unified yet vendor-neutral approach for connecting ALM systems is future-proofed through an enterprise service bus architecture rather than traditional point-to-point integrations. Advantages of the HP ALM/Quality Center SaaS deployment model include: Reducing the barriers to entry for customers wanting to migrate to an end-to-end ALM solution through a pay-as-you-as-go …