Software integrations for every tool in your value stream

Data integration refers to the process of collecting data from heterogeneous tools, normalizing it, and combining it in a single database, where it can be used to generate cross-tool reports.

Planview Hub can be used for both application integration and data integration.

Integration mapping is a way to visualize how information flows through your software development toolchain. Planview Hub has an integration mapping feature that generates a landscape view of your integrated toolchain.

There are four main ways that you can integrate your software development toolchain:

• Do-it-yourself integrations using public APIs
• Plugins
• Point-to-point integrations
• Model-based integration

Building your own application integrations using publicly available APIs is possible, but not recommended. It takes time and effort to build connectors, and the larger your organization, the more costly it is to maintain. It’s harder than you think to achieve the sophisticated behavior you need, for example, to preserve nested structures, control field flow, resolve conflicts, or to handle reassignments.

While tool vendors frequently change their APIs, development teams don’t normally have the bandwidth to proactively stay on top of the changes. Frequent outages are not uncommon, generating hundreds of errors, and requiring teams to revert to manual synchronization until the problem is resolved.

Planview Hub is available in both cloud and on-prem versions. With our cloud version, updates happen automatically when a new version is released. Both cloud and on-prem versions of Hub are safe and secure.