Santa Clara, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/02/2012 -- Kovair Software http://www.kovair.com, a leading provider of Integrated Application Lifecycle Management -- ALM -- solutions, announced today the availability of a new OSLC Wrapper product that enables sharing of data through live linking between application lifecycle artifacts originating from multi-vendor ALM tools from HP, Microsoft, Atlassian and others and OSLC standard tools from IBM Rational such as Rational Team Concert - RTC, Rational Quality Manager - RQM and Rational Requirements Composer - RRC.

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is a community creating open specifications for interactions between tools. IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools like RTC, RRC and RQM have built-in support for OSLC, but many other ALM tools providers such as HP, Microsoft and others that have not followed the OSLC Standards to date will be enabled connectivity to these IBM offerings on the JAZZ Platform by the Kovair OSLC Wrapper. Kovair Omnibus Integration provides an Enterprise Service Bus-based ALM integration platform connecting more than 30 different ALM tools -- and growing -- from major vendors and open source groups. Tools like HP Quality Center and QTP, Microsoft TFS, Atlassian Jira, Perforce, CA Clarity, Subversion and Hudson are integrated through the Kovair Omnibus. Kovair's OSLC wrapper around its Omnibus now enables all the 30 such tools already connected to the Bus to be linked as "OSLC Service Providers." Any OSLC-enabled consumer tool like IBM RTC and RRC can now connect to all these multi vendor tools through the OSLC linking. Any ALM artifact in IBM RTC can have a live link to any artifact in Microsoft TFS. "With this Kovair OSLC Wrapper, organizations using JAZZ-based Rational tools can quickly integrate with a wide range of popular ALM tools from other vendors as well as Rational's own legacy tools such as Requisite Pro and Rational Functional Tester," said Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair.

"Kovair Omnibus is an open API integration platform for ALM and IT tools. Kovair is committed to supporting open industry standards in ALM integrations. Kovair OSLC extension is an important step towards this interoperability drive," said Atanu Majumdar, VP Products and Technology for Kovair."

For further technical details please visit http://www.kovair.com/omnibus/OSLC-integration.aspx

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About Kovair Software, Inc.
Kovair is the innovation leader in Application Lifecycle Management - ALM and IT Service Management - ITSM solutions, supporting globally distributed multi-site application development and services. Its flagship products, The ALM Studio and the ITSM Studio, are web based, feature-rich, configurable products with built-in workflow and integration framework that offer a complete set of integrated tools and processes for managing the entire IT lifecycle. Architected with a common user interface and a shared repository to ease the complexities of "anytime, anywhere" development, Kovair has been adopted rapidly where there is a critical need for an automated workflow and reliable lifecycle management. Processes are implemented by Kovair's Omniprocess Workflow Engine. Kovair's Omnibus Integration bus Middleware for third party tools provides an extremely flexible and globally integrated IT environment.

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Santa Clara, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/21/2011 -- Kovair Software, a provider of Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, announced today the immediate availability of the new versions of their industry strength Enterprise, ALM Studio and ITSM Studio, delivered on the Cloud (as SaaS) in addition to their current On-Premise offerings.

"Based on our customers' feedback we have optimized the out-of-the-box solutions of ALM Studio and ITSM Studio with a simpler UI for various groups of users of the products. In addition Kovair's industry leading integration technology, the Omnibus, can be used to integrate multi-vendor tools to these products on the Cloud," said Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair. "With an attractive SaaS pricing and multiple Enterprise class applications in a single box we believe that many customers will find our solutions very compelling."

Both ALM Studio and ITSM Studio come in two flavors -- Starter and Enterprise. The free Starter edition of ALM studio includes maximum of 5 users and that of ITSM Studio includes maximum of 1 technician and 5 concurrent end users. The Enterprise editions for ALM Studio and ITSM Studio have $45 per user per month pricing. The Enterprise editions allow customers to have a 30 days free trial before they decide to purchase.

"Unlike other vendors of ALM and ITSM, Kovair brings absolute code-less configurability along with high-end functionality like graphical workflow designer and integration middleware based on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture," said Sky Basu, CTO of Kovair. "The single ALM Studio product provides a set of tightly integrated out-of-the-box applications like Requirements, Test, Issues, Risk, Release and Project Management. Similarly ITSM Studio offers ITILv3 compatible out-of-the-box applications like Service Desk, Incident, Problem, Change, CMDB, Knowledge, SLA Management and Service Catalog."

About Kovair Software, Inc.
Kovair is the innovation leader in Application Lifecycle Management -- ALM -- and IT Service Management -- ITSM solutions -- supporting globally distributed multi-site application development and services. Its flagship products, ALM Studio and ITSM Studio, are web-based, feature-rich and configurable products with built-in workflow and integration framework that offer a complete set of integrated tools and processes for managing the entire IT lifecycle. Constructed with a common user interface and a shared repository to ease the complexities of "anytime, anywhere" development, Kovair has been adopted rapidly where there is a critical need for an automated workflow and reliable lifecycle management.

Processes are implemented by Kovair's Omniprocess Workflow Engine. Kovair's Omnibus Integration Bus Platform, for third party tools, provides an extremely flexible and globally integrated IT environment.

For more information, visit http://www.kovair.com or call 408-262-0200 x2007.

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Kovair, today announced that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently procured additional licenses of the Kovair Requirements Management solution, as part of the USCIS Requirements Improvement Program (RIP). USCIS has been working with Kovair for its RIP process since 2008.

Santa Clara, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/16/2011 -- Kovair Software -- http://www.Kovair.com, today announced that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently procured additional licenses of the Kovair Requirements Management solution, as part of the USCIS Requirements Improvement Program (RIP). USCIS has been working with Kovair for its RIP process since 2008.

"Owing to the success in improving their Requirements Management Process, USCIS recently awarded Kovair with a contract -- the third award in three years -- for additional Kovair Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Studio licenses and services," announced Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair.

"USCIS organization's Requirements Management activities have improved significantly using Kovair's industry leading built-in process capability, user configurability and ability to integrate with other tools in the ALM and IT environment," noted Sky Basu, CTO of Kovair, who worked closely with USCIS and other contractors involved in this implementation.

"Continued confidence shown by USCIS in Kovair is a further testimony to the company's ability to deliver high quality Requirements Management and ALM solutions to large organizations like the USCIS and DHS," concluded Rajib Akhter, Director of Eastern Region Business Development for Kovair.

About Kovair Software
Kovair is the innovation leader in Application Lifecycle Management- ALM and IT Service Management -ITSM solutions, supporting globally distributed multi-site application development and services. Its flagship products, ALM Studio and ITSM Studio are web based, feature-rich and configurable products with built-in workflow and integration framework that offer a complete set of integrated tools and processes for managing the entire IT lifecycle. Constructed with a common user interface and a shared repository to ease the complexities of "anytime, anywhere" development, Kovair has been adopted rapidly where there is a critical need for an automated workflow and reliable lifecycle management. Processes are implemented by Kovair's Omniprocess Workflow Engine. Kovair's Omnibus Integration Bus Platform, for third party tools, provides an extremely flexible and globally integrated IT environment.

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Milpitas, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/13/2011 -- Kovair Software Inc, and nSolutions Inc, of San Jose, Calif today announced a partnership for enhancing ITSM CMDB automation with nSolutions NOVA product line. This integrated product will provide customers automation of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) compatible IT Service Management with the Kovair ALM Studio with real time visibility and control of the IT infrastructure through NOVA.

ITSM automation is the key to cutting operational costs and increasing business service availability. Kovair's ITSM solutions help standardize workflow to increase operational efficiency and enable end-to-end service delivery based on best practice guidelines of ITIL v3. Integration with NOVA, through Kovair's Omnibus Integration Middleware, will allow customers to create a real time repository of their network attached assets, distributed over multiple geographic locations and across multiple organizations and have full visibility and reporting with Kovair's ITSM Studio Product with its global access capabilities.

"The NOVA integration will make Kovair ITSM Studio a very complete product that can compete with any ITIL v3 compliant product in the market today, where many customers are looking for a shift from some of the legacy solutions for newer technology as well as significant cost reductions both for On-Premise as well as SaaS implementations," said Bipin Shah, CEO & Chairman of Kovair.

Increasingly, enterprises depend upon IT infrastructure operations to enable the delivery of business services with high availability. The Configuration Management Data Base -CMDB is a key component of the ITIL v3 best practices. Current approaches to create the CMDB are static and largely manual. The result is a failure to update the data consistently. Automation is the only way to provide visibility and control of the infrastructure. The NOVA real time repository integrated with Kovair ITSM Data provides automation and control for an effortless and consistent approach to managing change with an operational CMDB.

"We are pleased to partner with Kovair to enhance ITSM automation. By integrating Kovair's ITSM Studio with NOVA's Operational CMDB as the trusted source of resource configuration data, enterprises can transform the IT operations from a reactive management to a proactive control of the operations and policy enforcement," said Harish Rao, CEO of nSolutions Inc. "Businesses benefit from higher consistency of operations, higher availability of business services and improved security and compliance," he added.

About Kovair Software, Inc.

Kovair is the innovation leader in Application Lifecycle Management -- ALM and IT Service Management -- ITSM solutions, supporting globally distributed multi-site application development and services. Its flagship products, The ALM Studio and the ITSM Studio are web based, feature-rich, configurable products with built in workflow and integration framework that offer a complete set of integrated tools and processes for managing the entire IT lifecycle. Processes are implemented by Kovair's Omniprocess Workflow Engine. Kovair's Omnibus Integration Middleware for third party tools provides an extremely flexible and globally integrated IT environment.

About nSolutions, Inc.
nSolutions, Inc., a privately held company located in San Jose, California, offers the NOVA™ products and services to enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) for automation, security and compliance of data centers and cloud infrastructures. nSolutions markets NOVA (Network Ontology and Virtualization Appliance) directly and through its channel partners (in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, India and Singapore) to enterprises in the financial, retail, manufacturing, and government and to MSP market segments.

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