Rally Platform & Integrations Overview

Rally's ALM platform reduces the pain of connecting enterprise tools to create a single source of record for decision-making across the business.

Both our SaaS and On-Premise products seamlessly integrate and synchronize with best-of-breed development tools - whether they are behind your corporate firewalls or hosted in the cloud. Extend Rally functionality with free Apps from the Rally App Catalog or create new displays, reports, and integrations using our Apps SDK toolkit and Enterprise Integrations Framework.

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Overview

Rally’s industry leading Agile ALM platform unites Agile project management with requirements, defect, test, and demand management. The Rally platform enhances collaboration across your entire organization with native support for Agile practices.

Rally Platform Highlights

• Designed to support Agile
• High-performance SaaS architecture
• Scales to any size organization
• Integrations with leading ALM tools
• Extensible – add Apps & create custom views and reports
• Standard Agile reporting and advanced analytics

Rally ALM

Rally’s Agile ALM solutions help cross-functional teams prioritize and manage their backlogs, plan and track releases/iterations and monitor the progress and status of requirements, tasks, test cases and defects.

Key capabilities in all Rally Editions:

• Organize and track requirements, tasks, tests & defects
• Plan and track releases/iterations
• Collaborate using dashboards and “social media” style feeds
• Built-in reports and Agile metrics for tracking status and progress
• Scalable SaaS platform with 99.9% up-time and zero maintenance costs

Web Service API

The Rally web service API provides standards-based access to Rally subscription data. API versioning ensures that updates and changes to the core Rally application will not impact any custom code, applications or extensions.

Web Service API Highlights:

• Use SOAP or REST to access Rally data as XML or JSON
• Fully integrated interactive web service browser
• Batch API for efficient data transfer
• Versioned API protects your investment and reduces downtime by ensuring stable customizations

Connectors

Connectors link Rally to leading ALM tools, automating cross-department collaboration. Rally’s Enterprise Integration Framework allows many connectors to be customized to meet the needs of any size organization.

Rally supported Connectors:

• Source Code Management Repositories
• Defect Management Tools
• Test Management Applications
• Build Management Tools
• PPM & CRM systems
• IDE’s

Customization

Rally has created extensive developer toolkits, pre-built components and code samples to help jump-start your customization efforts. We also host a vibrant user community (Agile Commons) with over 14,000 members where Rally customers can discuss and share ideas with their peers.

WSAPI Customization Tools:

• Rally Integrations Toolkit for Ruby
• Rally Application SDK with component library
• Enterprise Integrations Framework
• Customization services

External Views

Rally’s open platform allows you to view Rally data in a variety of business applications to foster transparency and collaboration. Developers can view and update their tasks and requirements from within their favorite IDE’s. Executives can access key development data from Rally on their executive dashboard or intranet/wiki.

View Rally data in:

• Enterprise collaboration tools such as SharePoint and Confluence
• IDE’s: Eclipse, JDeveloper, Visual Studio
• iPhone – view iteration/release status and update/add requirements & defects

App Catalog

Our App Catalog contains dozens of Rally-supported applications that extend Rally’s functionality with custom features, interfaces and reports. The Apps are hosted on our SaaS Platform, eliminating maintenance hassles.

Apps can be accessed from:

• Rally’s App Catalog
• Apple’s App Store – download a free copy of Rally for the iPhone
• Salesforce.com’s AppExchange provides Customer Support and Product Management applications that integrate with Rally

Unify silos that span your product lifecycle to fuel true enterprise-wide Agile success.

Rally extends your existing enterprise investments through our library of enterprise integrations and connectors.

Get more info on how to select the best Agile lifecycle management vendor:

• Agile Vendor Eval Guide

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