Unlock the Value of Your Current Micro Focus QC or ALM Investment for PWCAccelerate delivery of high-quality applications at enterprise scale.

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Micro Focus® ALM Octane is a comprehensive lifecycle management solution that acceler-ates your ability to deliver high-quality appli-cations at enterprise scale while unlocking the value of the investments you’ve already made.

For enterprises who are shifting from Waterfall Development to an integrated portfolio that supports Hybrid application development, ALM

Octane is arguably the best solution available compared to other big names in the industry. This is why Micro Focus and PwC have invested in one another to develop joint solutions to pro-vide our shared customers with the best pos-sible experience, knowledge, and value. And if you need help, our experts are ready to work with you.

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In a recent survey of software developers across 801 companies*, we found 40% of organizations plan to support Waterfall and Agile programs concurrently. Clearly, businesses require a modern application lifecycle management tool that can bridge the needs of both Waterfall development and Agile Delivery.

Read about ‘How to Choose an Enterprise Agile Platform—Handling Complexity and Scale in Application Development.’

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* Source: Dimensional Research, “Managing the migration to DevOps: A global survey of software developers”, June 2017.)

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Consider These Top Reasons Why You Should Use or Upgrade to Micro Focus ALM Octane1. ALM Octane is the only product that

natively supports both Waterfall and Agile methodologies at enterprise scale with quality management built-in.

■ The only product that leverages existing license investments in ALM & Quality Center as you transform with Agile initiatives.

■ Enterprise readiness with a built-in business rules engine, robust user management, and customization of forms/fields to adapt to any organization’s processes.

■ ALM Octane has detailed audit history and traceability reports to identify risks earlier in the application delivery process.

2. ALM Octane is a cost-effective, low-risk option to adopt an Agile solution while leveraging your investments in QC/ALM.

■ You have invested in ALM / OC and built IP on top, starting over could be costly. ALM Octane includes migration utilities to move your assets from ALM and Quality Center for quality management in an Agile domain.

■ ALM and ALM Octane complement each other whereas moving to a different tool will introduce more complexity into the application delivery.

■ ALM Octane offers flexibility in repurposing existing licenses from traditional ALM to ALM Octane; making ALM Octane more cost-effective in the long-term.

3. ALM Octane integrates with third-party and open source solutions—making it easy to plan, build, and accelerate application delivery.

■ ALM Octane integrates with Git, Jenkins, and IDEs such as Eclipse to accelerate the Agile application delivery.

■ ALM Octane has open REST APIs which is available to integrate with any DevOps-based tools.

■ ALM Octane natively synchronizes with ALM, Quality Center, and along with Jira.

■ Click here to access detailed integrations.

4. ALM Octane meets the needs of your key stakeholders in the DevOps delivery.

■ Director of Quality (and team) will archive flawless application quality, drive automation, and constantly work to optimize test resources involved in their quality validation efforts.

■ VP or Director of App Dev (Agile Delivery of Apps) will enable Developer / Dev/Test teams a better way to manage the development and maintenance of software applications—both internal and customer facing.

■ PMO Office: Head of Portfolio/Programs will be able to better ensure IT programs meet organization goals and budget requirements.

Every enterprise is under intense pressure to deliver end-user value while continuing to in-novate and respond rapidly to changing mar-ket pressures. An Agile organization embraces these challenges and delivers high-quality solutions with increasing velocity. Wherever your organization is on the continuum from Agile to Waterfall or if you have teams that are using different methodologies in parallel, ALM Octane can support it.

This is why ALM Octane—as part of the Micro Focus DevOps offerings—is a comprehensive lifecycle management solution that acceler-ates Agile transformations for high-quality application delivery at enterprise scale while leveraging existing investments. The flexible

platform integrates with open source and third-party solutions to support planning, build ana-lytics, deliver continuous quality, and provide end-to-end traceability and rich reporting. Plus, with rich synchronization capabilities, customizable workflows, governance frame-work, integrated security testing, and the scal-ability for hundreds of teams with thousands of users, all make ALM Octane ideal for enter-prises to achieve agility without sacrificing all of the investments they’ve already made.

As we’re all experiencing, the pace of change is only accelerating. The last 10 years brought us pervasive Internet connectivity, cloud-based applications, mobile devices that connect ev-erywhere, information workers who use their own tools, and digital innovations that create newly empowered customers. This has cre-ated disruption across every industry. Only a truly agile business is equipped to respond. By partnering with PwC, we are able to deliver the quality solution, tools, and methods that allow an enterprise to embrace market and opera-tional changes as a matter of routine. Common questions we hear from customers:

■ Do we need to have visibility across multiple projects or teams?

■ Do we have distributed development teams?

■ Are our teams using a mix of methodologies (from pure Waterfall to pure Agile or somewhere in the middle, like Hybrid)?

That’s why ALM Octane is designed to be flex-ible enough to support the full continuum of development methodologies in one tool while providing visibility across teams, projects, and releases. Plus, new features and capabilities built-in to ALM Octane align perfectly with the Agile and DevOps value enterprise QA teams are seeking. And if you are not sure of the best direction or deployment option, your PwC ex-pert is there to help.

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\Consider What Others Are Saying and DoingOrange Needing to be able to release several times a day, Orange chose

Micro Focus ALM Octane to automate testing and introduce continuous deployment.

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World Wide Technology WWT chose Micro Focus ALM Octane to cut down production times and for its single sign-on, seamless interface, integration to other tools and the immediate visibility and feedback it provides.

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Planning and Tracking ALM Octane: ■ Agile Release Capacity Planning and Tracking ■ Support Scrum, Kanban methodologies ■ Team Planning (Velocity, Story Boards, Tasks) ■ Task Management with TimeSheet Reporting ■ Built-in support for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Jira: Most features included in JIRA Software. SAFe support via custom paid plugin

CA Rally: Includes most features

VersionOne: Comparable to ALM Octane

Quality and Test Management

ALM Octane: ■ Acceptance, Manual Tests and Test Management ■ Built-in BDD (Gherkin) framework for tests ■ Regression Test Suites / Automated Test—Support Selenium, UFT, and other Open Source Frameworks

■ Direct Coverage of Requirements and Backlog ■ Application Quality Heatmap—Dashboard

Jira: Test and Quality Management missing. Need 3rd party add-ons at additional cost

CA Rally and VersionOne: Basic test management capabilities with limited features

Enterprise DevOps ALM Octane: ■ Native Continuous Integration Server Integration (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, TFS)

■ Extensible CI SDK for any CI integration ■ Build Failure & Test Run Analytics

Jira: Requires 3rd Party Test add-ons at additional cost for CI Integration

CA Rally: Basic integration with CI servers

VersionOne: Has support for DevOps flows

Visibility, Traceability, Reporting

ALM Octane: ■ Comprehensive Dashboard Widgets ■ OData Restful API ■ Custom Analytics Widgets for KPIs and tracking

Jira: Basic team dashboard capabilities

CA Rally and VersionOne: Comparable dashboard capabilities

Deployment and Integrations

ALM Octane: ■ On-premise and SaaS deployment ■ Native Sync to ALM and Quality Center, JIRA ■ Portfolio Integration to PPM ■ IDE Integration (IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio)

Jira: Not all add-ons available on Cloud, needs 3rd Party add-ons at additional cost

CA Rally: Primarily SaaS, On-premise via VMware image, Weak sync capabilities

VersionOne: Limited Sync capabilities

Enterprise Readiness ALM Octane: ■ Support Hybrid application dev methodologies ■ Workflow rules and customization of Forms and Fields ■ LDAP User Management & Single Sign-On (SSOSaaS) ■ Global Search of all Lifecycle assets

Jira: JIRA Crowd and JIRA Datacenter needed to scale for the enterprise. Confluence needed for Requirements. Additional cost & configuration involved.

CA Rally and VersionOne: Poor support for Hybrid lifecycle methodology.

ALM Octane Is Perfect for: ■ Quality Assurance Managers who are

exploring Agile development yet may be struggling with end-to-end visibility, and/or interested in a web interface for QC/ALM.

ALM Octane is the only product in the market that leverages existing investments in Quality Center while supporting a gradual transition to new Agile initiatives.

■ Dev. or IT Managers who are struggling to manage the complexity of multiple development practices across their business; they’re looking to support Hybrid models with legacy code and new initiatives; or, they’re struggling with integrating multiple open source tools while maintaining a single view of status at scale.

ALM Octane is the only product that natively supports both Waterfall and Agile processes at enterprise scale with quality management built in.

■ Enterprise Architects more and more need corporate level visibility and minimal impact on the development team’s practices; they’re looking to streamline investments and reduce costs of maintaining the toolchain; and, they’re looking for governance from the planning stages to what’s delivered in production.

ALM Octane is the only product that supports Agile development at enterprise scale while embracing continued use of existing toolchains.

ALM Octane is the best available choice for de-fining, building, testing, and delivering modern applications rapidly across your entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Thus, as you consider which SDLC solution you should de-ploy, rest assured, there is no better option on the market than ALM Octane.

Take the Next Step: Unlock the Value of Your QC or ALM Investment

■ Learn more

■ Access the ALM Octane Help Center for more information

■ Read the ALM/Agile survey results White Paper

■ Contact our Alliance leads:

– Kurosh Kafie kurosh.kafie@pwc.com

– Drew Denkhaus (Micro Focus) Drew.Denkhaus@microfocus.com

Accelerating Business, Digital, and IT TransformationThe Micro Focus and PwC partnership—from strategy through execution—continues to help our joint customers win in the marketplace. We do this by combining PwC’s leading business transformation, process and organizational change capabilities; the Micro Focus enter-prise-grade scalable software portfolio (with analytics built in); and, our complementary synergies that harmonize our capabilities. The result is helping businesses accelerate digi-tal, unlock data, secure assets, and grow their competitive advantage.

Learn more atwww.microfocus.com/alm-octane

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