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
Feature		Quality Center (QC) Community	Quality Center (QC) Express	Quality Center (QC) Enterprise	Application Lifecycle Management (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	√	√	√	√
Defects	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		√	√	√
	ALM e-Signature			√ (Requires ALM e-Signature Add-On)	√ (Requires ALM e-Signature Add-On)
	ALM Aviator			√ (Requires ALM Aviator Add-On)	√ (Requires ALM Aviator Add-On)
	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			√	√
	ALM e-Signature Add-On			√	√
	ALM Aviator Add-On			√	√
	Upgrade from previous version		√	√	√

Application Quality Management Cloud Offering

Services		Public Cloud		Private Cloud
Supported Editions		Quality Center (QC) Team	Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Quality Center (QC) Enterprise	Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Quality Center (QC) Enterprise
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) (Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) only)	√
	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 dedicated and a 3rd party application server)	Optional for a fee (Requires a dedicated and a 3rd party application server)
	ALM e-Signature Add-On		Optional for a fee (Requires ALM e-Signature Add-On license and a dedicated application server)	Optional for a fee (Requires ALM e-Signature Add-On license and a dedicated application server)
	ALM Aviator Add-On		Optional for a fee (Requires ALM Aviator Add-On license)	Optional for a fee (Requires ALM Aviator Add-On 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		Multiple Regions	Multiple Regions
	Dedicated Environment (Dedicated Database and Application Server)			√
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)	√	√	√