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Is integration with DevOps tools the holy grail for Ranorex and Jama users?

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Although requirements management and test automation may seem to be almost completely different, with different requirements and different data requirements, both share one thing: the need for easy integration with the development tools they are designed to work with. Let’s take a look at two scenarios that can bring this need into sharper focus: Johnathan McGowanJohnathan McGowan is a Sr Solutions Architect at ConnectALL. He is responsible for customer-facing technical resource for the ConnectALL integration tool. He works with Account Managers to assess prospect needs and build demo integration solutions, guide prospects through product evaluations, and assist clients with their …

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How to integrate Perforce and Jira

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Perforce users often want a tool that can assist with managing bug reporting, tracing modifications to Perforce, and helping a quality assurance team track tickets and changes. Jira is frequently the tool of choice for providing these capabilities; however, there is no tool within Jira that natively performs these integrations. In this blog, we’ll take a look at a few tools that provide these integration capabilities. Johnathan McGowanJohnathan McGowan is a Sr Solutions Architect at ConnectALL. He is responsible for customer-facing technical resource for the ConnectALL integration tool. He works with Account Managers to assess prospect needs and build demo …

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Using custom business rules for HIPAA

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Organizations, healthcare providers, researchers, companies providing billing and other services to healthcare providers, and others may require that confidential patient information is moved from one system to another. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), along with a more stringent set of requirements (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH Act) that followed the original HIPAA, describes the types of protections necessary to assure a patient’s privacy. Violations of HIPAA have resulted in fines that ran into six figures. In one recent case, a group of researchers wanted to grab collected data from its clinics …

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Thirteen questions to help you choose the Application Integration Vendor that’s right for you

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Choosing the right Application Integration Vendor can have a significant impact on the future of your enterprise. The right Application Integration Vendor can help your organization smoothly connect multiple departments that use various sets of tools (development, management, quality control, human resources, planning, etc). A poor choice could make application integration slow, difficult, and costly – ultimately reducing your organization’s overall performance and productivity. Here’s a list of questions to help you determine which Application Integration Vendor is best for your organization. Johnathan McGowanJohnathan McGowan is a Sr Solutions Architect at ConnectALL. He is responsible for customer-facing technical resource for the ConnectALL …

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SDLC = ALM? SDLC ≠ ALM? ALM = DevOps? WHAT?

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

The way that your organization manages design, development, testing, and distribution of its IT or software projects can make the difference between a project’s success or failure. Proper management can ultimately make the difference between the success or failure of your organization. Though this may seem obvious, it has taken years for this truth to become as obvious as it is now. The coding world was simpler in the early days of software development – the project was defined, goals were specified, basic features were described, and the coders went to work (often building the system and testing their own code) using …

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Rally users often want to use Jira to manage projects. We show you how…

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Organizations that use Rally often feel the need for a tool that can easily support development management, issue tracking, and other important development issues. Atlassian’s Jira is ideally suited to provide support for the management tasks that many Rally users require. Unfortunately, the native Rally application does not support easy data transfer between the two applications. We’ll show you a few ways to bridge the gap between Rally and Jira. Go2Group has a blog that discusses the steps needed to perform a successful migration. To open the blog, please click here. With that framework in mind, there are a number of …

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How-to Series: Gauging the steps for a successful migration

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

Organizations may decide to migrate their applications and environments in order to streamline operations, improve operational efficiencies, and save money. Unless important steps are taken in planning and implementing the migration, such migrations may fail, costing these organizations credibility, money, and, potentially, their data. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the steps required to perform a successful migration. Johnathan McGowanJohnathan McGowan is a Sr Solutions Architect at ConnectALL. He is responsible for customer-facing technical resource for the ConnectALL integration tool. He works with Account Managers to assess prospect needs and build demo integration solutions, guide prospects through product evaluations, …

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The BEAST in your enterprise – how having multiple teams drives everybody crazy – and limits productivity: Part 2 – Starting to Control the Beast

In ConnectALL by Johnathan McGowan

In Part One of this series, I described the problems that many modern enterprises, with multiple teams, are currently facing. Each team – Project Management, Development, Testing, Management, and others are using their own tools. This approach may work for them, but in many cases communication between the groups is difficult, if not virtually impossible. Johnathan McGowanJohnathan McGowan is a Sr Solutions Architect at ConnectALL. He is responsible for customer-facing technical resource for the ConnectALL integration tool. He works with Account Managers to assess prospect needs and build demo integration solutions, guide prospects through product evaluations, and assist clients with …