Application Quality Management Editions and Cloud Offerings

This document provides information on Application Quality Management editions and Cloud offering.

In this topic:

 

·    Application Quality Management Editions

·    Application Quality Management Cloud Offering

Notes:

 

·   Unless specifically specified, this document reflects the status of the latest on-Premises and Cloud releases of Application Quality Management.

·   QC Team is a Public Cloud offering that has the same set of features as the QC Enterprise edition; however, its associated Cloud service levels are different from the QC Enterprise Cloud offering. See the Application Quality Management Cloud Offering table below for details.

·   For some Cloud Offering functions additional fee might be applied. See the Application Quality Management Cloud Offering table below for details.

·   For a limited time, ALM SaaS Customers may have access to ALM Aviator capabilities, in order to get familiar with this feature. Starting April 1st, 2025, all access to ALM Aviator requires a purchase of a separate subscription and payment of applicable fees.

 

Application Quality Management Editions

Feature

Edition

QC Community

QC Express

QC Enterprise

ALM

 

On-Premises only

On-Premises only

Both On-Premises and Cloud

Both On-Premises and Cloud

Provides a subset of ALM functionality

 

Provides a subset of ALM functionality and is designed for simple and small projects

 

Provides a unified quality management platform that efficiently scales from a single project to multiple, enterprise-wide projects and releases. It enables mature quality practices, test automation, and advanced integrations and processes.

Provides a full set of ALM functionality. A unified platform for managing and automating processes, activities, and assets for building, testing, delivering, and maintaining applications. It includes modules for requirements, test, defect, and development management, and overall release and project planning. ALM helps organizations drive consistent processes, shared best-practices, and asset sharing across projects.

Reporting

Dashboard and Analysis

Business Views

Business Views Excel Reporting

Cross-project Business Views Excel Reporting

 

 

 

Cross-project Reporting

 

 

 

Requirement

Requirement to Requirement Traceability

 

 

Version Control (for Requirements)

 

 

Multiple Requirement Types

 

 

Business Process Models

 

 

BPMN 2.0 Support

 

 

Baselining

 

 

Risk-Based Quality Management

 

 

Requirements Templates

 

 

Requirements Sharing/Reuse

 

 

 

Testing

Test Plan

Test Lab

Test Resource Management

Test Configurations

Setting Schedules and Conditions for Test Runs

Version Control (for Tests)

 

 

Baselining

 

 

Lab Management

 

 

 

Test Assets Sharing or Reuse

 

 

 

Test Planning based on Build Health and Risk

 

 

 

Defects

Defect Tracking and Management

Defect Sharing

 

 

 

General

Release and Cycle Management

 

Workflow Customization

 

QC Sense

 

Single Sign-On (SAML 2.0 and OpenID)

 

Single Sign-On (SiteMinder and Common Access Card)

 

QoT—Offline test execution client

 

Web Client

 

Project Planning and Tracking

 

 

 

Cross Project Customization (Shared Customization)

 

 

 

Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI)

 

 

 

Integrations

Micro Focus Connect

 

 

Testing tool integrations

 

UFT One GUI test only

Jenkins integration

 

 

Integrations with Commercial Off the Shelf software (COTS)

 

 

Integration with project management tools

 

 

Integration with collaborative tools

 

 

Integration with AutoPass License Server (APLS)

 

 

Additional integrations using REST API

 

 

ALM Tools

 

 

License options

Max Concurrent Licenses

 

Limit of 20 users per instance

Unlimited

Unlimited

Max Named User Licenses

Limit of 5 per instance

Limit of 20 users per instance

 

 

Term Licensing

1-36 months

1-36 months

1-36 months

Additional licenses for Requirements Management

 

Additional defects manager licenses

 

 

Upgrade from previous version

 

  

Application Quality Management Cloud Offering

Services

Public Cloud

Private Cloud

Supported Editions

QC Team

QC Enterprise

ALM

 

QC Enterprise

ALM

 

Service Delivery Components

VPN

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

·        One VPN Connection

·        Additional VPN Connections are optional for a fee

 

Encrypted storage

Storage

·        1 TB

·        Additional Storage is optional for a fee

·        2 TB QC Enterprise

·        3 TB ALM

·        Additional Storage is optional for a fee

 

·        2 TB QC Enterprise

·        3 TB ALM

·        Additional Storage is optional for a fee

Project Entitlement

·        2 projects per full user

·        Additional projects are optional for a fee

·        3 projects per full QC Enterprise user

·        5 projects per full ALM user

·        Additional projects are optional for a fee

·        3 projects per full QC Enterprise user

·        5 projects per full ALM user

·        Additional projects are optional for a fee

 

Operational Services

Single sign-on support

Web services support

 

Archiving Services

Optional for a fee

·        100 GB

·        Additional Archiving Services are optional for a fee

 

·        100 GB

·        Additional Archiving Services are optional for a fee

e-Signature Services

 

Optional for a fee

Optional for a fee

Migration services

Optional for a fee

Optional for a fee

Optional for a fee

Integrations

LDAP Integration

 

Optional for a fee

(requires a dedicated application server)

Micro Focus Connect

Optional for a fee

·        1 Connect Tenant

·        Additional Connect Tenants are optional for a fee

 

·        1 Connect Tenant

·        Additional Connect Tenants are optional for a fee

 

Testing tool integrations

·        UFT One

·        Business Process Testing

·        Sprinter

ALM Test Management for Jira plugin

 

ALM Test Management extension for Azure DevOps

 

ALM Test Runs Injection for ALM Octane

 

Microsoft Teams integration

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

Lab Management

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

Digital Lab integration

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

Quality Insight

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a 3rd party application server)

Optional for a fee

(Requires a 3rd party application server)

Reporting / OData (Customized)

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a 3rd party application server)

Optional for a fee

(Requires a 3rd party application server)

ALM Aviator

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires ALM Aviator license)

Optional for a fee

(Requires ALM Aviator license)

Application Management

Self-service Administration

Modifying site parameters

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

Dynamic license distribution per domain

 

Optional for a fee

(Requires a dedicated application server)

Solution Availability Service Level Objective

99% 

99.9%   

99.9%   

Monitoring

24x7 Support

Application Security

Access Controls List

 

Optional for a fee

Optional for a fee

Cloud Provider

AWS

AWS

AWS

Data Residency and Regional Processing

 

5 Regions

Multiple Regions

 

Dedicated Environment

 

 

Security

Compliance Offerings

(ISO 27001, ISO 27034, ISO 9001, SOC 2)

Periodic Security and Risk Assessment

Secured data centers and workspaces

Customer Management

My Account Access

Incident Notification

 

Asset Management (DataCenter Level)