In our previous post Why IBM RTC and dbMaestro TeamWork Must Work Together, we began discussing the importance of integrating RTC with an Oracle database change management solution, dbMaestro TeamWork™. In this entry, we’ll highlight the first of the many advantages that can be realized through this integration – the ability to better align business requirements and development tasks.
Today’s IT projects, including software development, are very strategic in nature. This means, there are most likely critical business needs that are driving their planning and execution. Therefore, it is important to make sure that all related tasks and activities are carried out in such a way that they ensure that those requirements are being properly met.
But, if the modifications made to software code in RTC are not properly synchronized with those alterations made to the underlying application database in the TeamWork environment, the final deployment may not properly satisfy the original business needs, and problems may arise. This will not only be inconvenient for business users, it will require extensive re-work that will drain the productivity of development resources.
Additionally, if upgrades to software applications are not properly coordinated – in other words, if code changes do not take the database into consideration and vice versa – then the application will stop working. And, if the software doesn’t work, then business users will not be able to perform their jobs.
On the other hand, when RTC and TeamWork are seamlessly integrated, business requirements can be closely correlated with both software development and database development projects. Administrators on the software side, as well as those who oversee the databases, will be able to closely track all tasks and activities, so they can guarantee that the end result – when the changes are eventually deployed into production – will most efficiently and effectively satisfy business requirements.
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