Melillo Consulting HP Software Application Lifecycle

Melillo Consulting
HP Software Application
Lifecycle Management
Solutions Appliance
Speed implementation of HP ALM solutions
with the plug-and-play Melillo Pizza Box
Solution brief
Deploy HP Application Lifecycle
Management solutions faster and
accelerate results
Organizations of all sizes are developing and
modifying software applications to further enhance
the productivity and agility of their businesses.
But building and managing applications can be
more complicated than ever as a result of evolving
development processes, new architectures and
technologies, and the changing dynamics of
development team collaboration. The challenge
is acute for those businesses that previously didn’t
employ application development and quality
assurance teams and processes, or for those that lack
higher levels of technological expertise.
Managing the complexity of application design,
development, and quality today calls for an optimized,
end-to-end application lifecycle that allows IT
organizations to deliver applications quickly, securely,
and reliably. That, too, can pose challenges without
the help of tools such as HP Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) solutions, methodologies, and
processes. The HP ALM portfolio includes HP ALM,
HP Quality Center, and automation solutions. They are
designed to improve the quality, predictability, and
agility of the application lifecycle. HP ALM solutions
accelerate application transformation by empowering
application teams to plan, build, and prepare for the
release of applications, components, and services with
fewer delays and better quality.
Melillo Consulting, an HP Software Platinum Business
Partner, developed the Melillo Pizza Box solution
to implement and customize HP ALM deployments,
delivering faster results.
The Melillo Pizza Box is a preconfigured
plug-and-play appliance delivered on a
ready-to-go HP BladeSystem blade server
running as a VMware virtual machine or
dedicated server/database.
The Melillo Pizza Box: a turnkey
approach to reduce HP ALM
solutions’ implementation time, lower
costs, and accelerate results
Organizations whose IT and application development
teams are constrained by time, personnel, and budget
issues can utilize Melillo Consulting and the Melillo
Pizza Box solution to implement and customize
their HP ALM deployments. Melillo Consulting has
developed an approach that can be as simple as
inserting a USB drive into a server.
The Melillo Pizza Box simplifies the implementation
and adoption of HP ALM solutions. It is preconfigured,
packaged, and delivered on a plug-and-play
HP BladeSystem blade server running as a VMware
virtual machine or dedicated server/database.
The Pizza Box comes with a customized HP quality
management implementation and is available in
small, medium, and large sizes—depending on the
size of your organization and complexity of your
HP ALM configuration. It can also be delivered to you
as a download or in a USB thumb drive.
The Melillo Pizza Box helps organizations significantly
reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to
implement HP ALM solutions on standard hardware.
In fact, onsite installations and configurations of
HP ALM solutions that usually take up to four weeks
can now be completed in as little as one day by using
the Melillo Pizza Box.
Why HP ALM solutions are critical
to your application development
process
HP ALM and HP Quality Center are enterprise
software solutions that provide a centralized
management platform that application teams can
use to manage and automate activities and
information throughout the complete application
development process. HP ALM solutions enable
IT departments to deliver software applications
and services across heterogeneous environments
quickly, securely, and reliably.
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HP ALM solutions help organizations to:
•Attain real-time visibility into and manage quality
across the application lifecycle
•Centrally manage and enforce consistent workflows
and processes
•Enforce standardized processes and best practices
•Manage multiple versions of requirements, tests,
test scripts, and business components
•Reduce duplication of effort across projects
•Prioritize testing based on business risk
•Access testing assets anytime, anywhere via a
browser interface
•Accelerate testing cycles by automatically scheduling
and running unattended tests
•Facilitate collaboration and communication among
internal and external stakeholder groups and across
multiple projects
•Track and manage defects
Key components related to quality
and management
The HP ALM solutions’ approach to quality
management is intended to make quality assurance an
integrated part of your development cycle from day 1.
Designed to promote collaboration among all of your
stakeholders, it enables your quality assurance teams
to get out of the business of certifying software and
into the business of providing a true risk assessment.
HP ALM solutions specific to quality management
include HP ALM 11, HP Quality Center,
HP LoadRunner, HP QuickTest Professional,
HP Performance Center, HP SiteScope, and
HP QAInspect.
•HP ALM 11 is a unified platform for accelerating
and simplifying application delivery and
empowering application teams—which include
quality and development teams—to deliver better
results to the business. HP ALM 11 provides
actionable information and workflows designed
to accelerate delivery of secure, reliable, modern
applications. Its key capabilities include cross-project
planning and tracking, requirements definition and
management with integration to business process
models, complete traceability from requirements
through developer tasks, testing and defects, and
support for multiple development methodologies
such as agile and waterfall. In addition, HP ALM 11
shares a common foundation with HP Quality
Center and supports complete quality planning
and management, asset sharing, innovative
manual testing with HP Sprinter, and integrated
automated testing.
•HP Quality Center software manages application
•HP SiteScope delivers agent-less monitoring that
quality across the entire application lifecycle. It
complements existing agent-based solutions to help
provides requirements management, release and
you maintain the availability and performance of
cycle management, test management, defect
a distributed IT infrastructure. This proactive, Webmanagement, and reporting—all from a single
based software provides a centralized view of your
platform. It also includes a robust repository for your
entire infrastructure without installing agents or
test cases and defects. To close the loop on your
software on production systems. You can gain realapplication lifecycle, HP Quality Center includes a
time information to verify operations, stay apprised
full-featured requirements management system with
of problems, and quickly address bottlenecks.
a risk-based quality management module so that you •HP QAInspect software allows quality-assurance
can effectively gauge the risk of release.
professionals to incorporate fully automated
•HP LoadRunner is automated performance and
Web application security testing into your overall
load-testing software that generates actual loads
test management process without the need for
while examining system behavior and performance.
specialized security knowledge and without the risk
It can emulate thousands of concurrent users to put
of slowing aggressive product release schedules.
an application through real-life user loads. At the
The Melillo HP ALM solutions Pizza Box appliance
same time, it collects information from your Web
incorporates these components into its configuration
and database servers. HP LoadRunner also has
solution based on your customization requirements. It
the capability to analyze the results and examine
allows multiple concurrent users to access HP ALM,
specific behaviors and issues such as bottlenecks to
HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center,
help isolate and remediate performance issues.
HP SiteScope, and HP QAInspect software, and
•HP QuickTest Professional software is a functional
provides access to HP QuickTest Professional and
and regression test automation tool for software
HP LoadRunner based on the size of the Pizza Box
applications and environments. It captures, verifies,
you choose.
and replays user interactions automatically and
helps you quickly identify and report on application
How Melillo accelerates HP ALM
effects. It also offers sophisticated functionality for
solution implementation
collaboration among testers. Using keywords, you
can build test cases by capturing flows directly from Before you implement an HP ALM solution, a
Melillo consultant will meet with you to determine
application screens and applying robust record/
the components and features that are right for your
replay capturing technology. With new application
builds, you need to update only one reference in the organization. This will include the number and type of
licenses you need along with the specific applications,
shared repository, and the update is propagated to
workflow parameters, and quality management levels.
all referencing tests.
•HP Performance Center is a performance-testing
platform and framework to help standardize and
centralize your performance testing while enabling
global collaboration and the formation of testing
centers of excellence (COE). Built on LoadRunner
software, Performance Center reduces the cost of
application load testing and helps utilize testing
assets and pools of licenses more efficiently,
improves testing processes by tracking and
linking defects to requirements, identifies trends
across multiple tests and iterations, and enables a
performance-testing COE for improved efficiency,
quality, and collaboration.
After the assessment, we’ll configure your HP ALM
solution to your specifications and deliver it on a
ready-to-go HP BladeSystem blade server running
as a VMware virtual machine or dedicated server/
database. You also have the option of having it
delivered as an appliance on a thumb drive, as
a packaged VMware virtual machine, or as a
download. As part of your Melillo Consulting Pizza
Box acquisition, Melillo will provide ready-to-run
scripts configured for your application and training
so that your team will be self-sufficient after the
implementation has been completed. The Melillo
Pizza Box also enables a simplified upgrade path
to new versions of HP ALM solutions. In addition to
being a non-intrusive process that eliminates the need
for specific in-house technical knowledge, the Melillo
solution can be listed as a capital expenditure on
your ledger.
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Selecting the right Melillo Pizza Box
size
Melillo HP ALM Pizza Box solutions are available
in three sizes: small, medium, and large. Standard
configurations include test management, automated
functional testing, load testing, security testing, and
system monitoring. Advanced configurations can be
customized to include service-oriented architecture
(SOA) governance. Not all features/functions are
available in all configurations. You also have the
option to request additional products that meet your
specific needs.
Why the Melillo Consulting HP ALM
solutions appliance is right for your
business
About HP
As the world’s largest technology company, HP
has a unique ability to provide complete solutions
that encompass servers, storage, networking, and
software. And by partnering with Melillo Consulting,
HP ensures that this remarkable breadth of capabilities
is applied to solutions that increase efficiency and
reduce downtime.
For more information
To learn more about the Melillo Consulting HP ALM
solutions Pizza Box plug-and-play appliance, visit:
www.melillo.com
www.hp.com/go/ALM
As a technology solutions integrator that provides IT
expertise geared to midsize and enterprise customers,
Melillo Consulting has a combined 20-plus years
of experience with the HP Software ALM suite. We
created the Melillo Pizza Box plug-and-play appliance
to help customers save time, save money, and
accelerate results when adopting HP ALM solutions.
About Melillo Consulting
Melillo Consulting, an HP Software Platinum Business
Partner, leverages years of experience in assessing
unique business situations and developing plans
to maximize your investment in business service
monitoring. Melillo works with customers in all
industries, including financial services, healthcare,
manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. The company
employs a proven methodology that provides highly
trained professionals with outstanding project
management skills. Melillo’s expertise in HP software
has consistently earned it recognition as a leading
HP partner, and its implementations have won awards
for unique and outstanding services, year after year.
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