ALM

Application Lifecycle Management

Streamlining Innovation with ALM

Accrevent’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions ensure seamless software development, collaboration, and product evolution from ideation to deployment and beyond. With Agile best practices and real-time data integration, we empower teams to build high-quality, scalable, and future-ready software solutions.

Increased Visibility
Enhanced Compliance
Faster Deployment
Higher-Quality Products
Lower Development Costs
Improved Collaboration

The benefits of Application Lifecycle Management

ALM enhances software development by improving visibility, ensuring compliance, accelerating deployment, and delivering higher-quality products. It reduces costs, fosters collaboration, and streamlines processes for efficient and reliable software management.

Increased Visibility

Gain real-time access to critical requirements, risk assessments, and test data, ensuring teams stay aligned, make informed decisions, and build high-quality software with accuracy and confidence.

Enhanced Compliance

Ensure strict adherence to industry standards with end-to-end traceability. ALM enables seamless monitoring and control of mature processes, simplifying compliance with safety-critical regulations and quality guidelines.

Faster Deployment

Accelerate development with Agile methodologies, optimizing requirements, risk, and testing. Ensure seamless DevOps collaboration through standardized, repeatable processes.

Increased Visibility

Gain real-time access to critical requirements, risk assessments, and test data, ensuring teams stay aligned, make informed decisions, and build high-quality software with accuracy and confidence.

Enhanced Compliance

Ensure strict adherence to industry standards with end-to-end traceability. ALM enables seamless monitoring and control of mature processes, simplifying compliance with safety-critical regulations and quality guidelines.

Faster Deployment

Accelerate development with Agile methodologies, optimizing requirements, risk, and testing. Ensure seamless DevOps collaboration through standardized, repeatable processes.

Higher-Quality Products

Ensure high-quality, reliable, and safe products with ALM’s integrated quality management. By embedding quality checks throughout the lifecycle, ALM enhances product performance and compliance with industry standards.

Lower Development Costs

Lower software development expenses by automating tasks, enhancing resource reuse, and reducing complexity. Minimize rework and improve efficiency for high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

Improved Collaboration

Enhance coordination across development, testing, and operations with a unified platform. ALM fosters real-time collaboration, ensuring alignment, efficiency, and streamlined workflows throughout the software lifecycle.

stages of application lifecycle management

Six stages of ALM

ALM stages vary from organization to organization, but typically include the following:

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1. Definition

Stakeholders identify project needs, define the solution’s scope, and refine requirements through iterative analysis to ensure clarity and alignment.
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2. Design

Define the solution’s structure, components, behavior, and relationships through iterative design, ensuring a well-architected and scalable.
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3. Development

Collaborative teams and leaders work together to create and enhance software through iterative development cycles, ensuring quality and efficiency.
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4. Testing/QA

Accrevent’s ALM integrates QA and risk management into each iteration, using rigorous testing to validate that the final product meets original requirements.
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5. Deployment

This stage involves preparing, installing, and making the software operational, ensuring a smooth transition from development to the live use.
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6. Maintenance

Ensure software remains efficient and up-to-date by addressing defects, implementing enhancements, and releasing updates for improvement.
Optimizing Product Lifecycle for Innovation and Efficiency

Key areas of ALM

Key Areas of ALM ensure seamless software management through governance, streamlined development, and efficient maintenance, enabling transparency, productivity, and long-term reliability.

Establishes transparent processes for decision-making, oversight, and accountability in the software development.
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Governance

Streamlines Agile development with end-to-end traceability, enhancing productivity and managing complexity.
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Application Development

Efficiently tracks changes and manages product updates, reducing costs and ensuring long-term software reliability.
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Maintenance

How we can help you?

We streamline your software lifecycle with seamless collaboration, end-to-end traceability, compliance support, automated workflows, and efficient maintenance, ensuring high-quality and cost-effective development.

Consulting and strategy

Accrevent’s experts provide tailored ALM solutions, aligning with your IT infrastructure and business goals. We offer pre-implementation analysis, strategic planning, and technology selection for effective system implementation and maintenance.

  • ALM Assessment & Roadmap
  • Methodology Selection & Implementation
  • Tool Integration & Customization
  • Compliance & Risk Management
  • Continuous Improvement & Optimization

Implementation of Windchill RV&S system

Accrevent provides expert consulting and full support for Windchill RV&S implementation, ensuring seamless integration tailored to your business needs. As a PTC-certified partner, we offer end-to-end services, including analysis, customization, automation, and system adaptation for a successful deployment.

  • Requirement Management
  • Process Automation
  • Version Control & Traceability
  • Risk & Test Management
  • Seamless Integration

System configuration

Customize and optimize ALM systems to align with internal standards and business goals. Accrevent ensures seamless implementation, enhancing efficiency and adaptability for your organization.

  • User Access Management
  • Workflow Customization
  • Integration Setup
  • Data Security & Compliance
  • Performance Optimization

Update

Regular updates enhance security, ensure compatibility, and provide access to new features, keeping Accrevent’s ALM system optimized and fully supported.

  • Enhanced Security
  • Improved Compatibility
  • Access to New Features
  • Extended Technical Support
  • Optimized Performance

Data migrations

Accrevent ensures secure and efficient data migration to Windchill RV&S with expert-led processes. Our team handles seamless transfers between systems and multiple instances, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

  • Seamless Data Transfer
  • Minimal Downtime
  • Enhanced Data Integrity
  • Security & Compliance
  • Scalability & Future-Proofing

Integrations with third party tools

Accrevent integrates Windchill RV&S with third-party software using ThingWorx and OSLC solutions, ensuring smooth data flow, process automation, and enhanced efficiency. Custom solutions are available for complex integration needs.

  • Version Control Systems
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Project Management Tools
  • Testing & QA Tools
  • Security & Compliance Tools

Proprietary apps based on Windchill RV&S API

Accrevent develops custom apps to enhance Windchill RV&S, enabling efficient data export/import, advanced document management, and traceability verification. These solutions improve usability, streamline workflows, and optimize reporting.

  • Customized Workflows
  • Enhanced Integration
  • Advanced Reporting
  • Security & Compliance
  • Scalability & Performance

Code generation with Windchill Modeler

Accrevent leverages Windchill Modeler for automatic source code generation, enabling engineers to develop and maintain software in C and C++. Our expertise spans industries like automotive and aerospace, delivering innovative, automated coding solutions.

  • Automated Code Creation
  • Consistency & Accuracy
  • Faster Development
  • Seamless Integration
  • Improved Maintainability

ALM in the cloud

Accrevent enables secure, seamless ALM migration and management on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. We offer end-to-end solutions, including consulting, migration, configuration, customization, training, and ongoing support for efficient cloud-based ALM.

  • Scalability & Flexibility
  • Enhanced Security
  • Anywhere Access
  • Automatic Updates & Maintenance
  • Cost Efficiency

Training

Accrevent offers tailored lectures and workshops on PTC solutions, including Windchill RV&S and Modeler. Our training covers end-user and system administration needs, focusing on practical skills and customized content to meet customer expectations.

  • Fundamentals of ALM
  • Tool-Specific Training
  • Collaboration & Workflow Integration
  • Compliance & Security
  • Advanced ALM Strategies

OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration)

Accrevent provides installation, configuration, and updates for OSLC solutions in RV&S, ensuring seamless system integration and efficient information exchange between applications.

  • Seamless Integration
  • Improved Collaboration
  • End-to-End Traceability
  • Standardized Data Exchange
  • Enhanced Efficiency

Key ALM capabilities

Excellence in application lifecycle management requires mastery of the following:

Strategic Requirements Alignment

Gather market insights and business needs to align teams and guide software development.

Accelerated Software Development

Enable seamless collaboration and automation to build high-quality software efficiently.

Quality-Driven Testing & Assurance

Validate and verify results at every stage, improving software reliability while reducing costs.

Agile-First Project Management

Embrace flexibility, teamwork, and continuous improvement to optimize software engineering processes.

Seamless DevOps Integration

Standardize deployment and operations with efficient, repeatable processes for software release management.

End-to-End Risk Assessment & Control

Identify, assess, and manage potential threats to safeguard software integrity and business continuity.

User-Centric Software Engineering

Foster cross-functional collaboration to develop creative, high-quality software solutions.

Connected & Transparent Collaboration

Ensure real-time access to project data, enabling seamless teamwork across remote and parallel workflows.

faqs

ALM Services

Get answers to common questions about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including its adaptability to different development models, benefits for collaboration, differences from DevOps, compliance support, and cost-saving advantages.

Is ALM only suitable for traditional development models?

No, ALM is adaptable to various development methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches. Accrevent’s ALM solutions support teams in managing the entire application lifecycle efficiently, regardless of their chosen development model.

ALM provides a centralized platform for real-time access to requirements, risk assessments, and test data, ensuring seamless collaboration between development, testing, and operations teams. This alignment improves efficiency and reduces errors.

ALM covers the entire software lifecycle, from planning to retirement, managing requirements, design, development, testing, and maintenance. DevOps, on the other hand, focuses on streamlining development and operations through automation, continuous integration, and faster delivery cycles.

Yes, ALM ensures end-to-end traceability, helping organizations comply with industry regulations, quality standards, and security requirements. It provides audit trails, process controls, and documentation to support compliance efforts.

By automating workflows, enabling reuse, and streamlining project management, ALM minimizes rework, enhances efficiency, and optimizes resource utilization, ultimately lowering development and maintenance costs.