OpenText Application Delivery Management Engineering & Support
VOTUM provides engineering expertise across the OpenText Application Delivery Management ecosystem, with particularly deep experience in ALM, ALM Octane and UFT.
Enterprise application delivery rarely depends on a single tool. Quality management, requirements, testing, release processes, automation, performance engineering and operational support often span multiple systems and integrations.
We help organizations operate, modernize and evolve business-critical software delivery platforms. OpenText ALM, OpenText ALM Octane and OpenText UFT are where our team has accumulated its deepest project experience. We also work with OpenText LoadRunner and OpenText PPM as part of wider ADM environments.
Our work covers the complete lifecycle: architecture and assessment, installation and configuration, upgrades, migration, integrations, test automation, platform operations and L1–L3 engineering support.
OpenText ALM, ALM Octane, UFT, LoadRunner and PPM are products in the OpenText Application Delivery Management portfolio. VOTUM is an independent software engineering company; this page describes the team’s engineering work with these technologies.
Core expertise
OpenText ALM / Quality Center
Many organizations run requirements, test and defect management on OpenText ALM / Quality Center, in environments that have grown with multiple domains, customized workflows and integrations. We work on the platform itself and on everything connected to it.
ALM architecture and platform design
Installation and configuration
Upgrades and migrations, including database and repository migration
Authentication and enterprise SSO integration
Project and domain administration
Workflow customization
Integrations with surrounding enterprise systems
Requirements, test and defect management processes
Operational support, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
Modernization planning
Operate, modernize or move on
There is no single right answer for an established ALM environment. Depending on its condition and where delivery is heading, an organization may:
continue operating a mature ALM environment
modernize ALM: upgrade the platform and rework its integrations
migrate gradually toward ALM Octane
run ALM and ALM Octane in coexistence
We help assess which of these fits, and then carry it out.
ALM Octane supports Agile and DevOps delivery, with quality management built into the delivery pipeline. We work on Octane environments from architecture and deployment through day-to-day operation, and on the processes and integrations that make them useful to delivery teams.
Octane architecture and deployment
Spaces and workspaces: design and administration
Agile and quality processes
CI/CD integration
Authentication and identity integration
Enterprise integrations
Upgrades
ALM-to-Octane migration, including test assets
Operational support and troubleshooting
ALM and Octane in coexistence
Moving to Octane does not have to happen all at once, and it is not the right step for every ALM environment. Organizations often keep existing ALM projects, assets and processes where they work well, while newer teams and workflows move to Octane. We design and support hybrid ALM + Octane landscapes: which teams work where, how test assets and data are shared, and how both platforms are integrated and operated.
Core expertise
OpenText UFT
UFT automation pays off when it stays stable and maintainable as the applications under test change. We design and build UFT automation, connect it to ALM and to delivery pipelines, and keep existing suites running in complex enterprise test environments.
Automation architecture and UFT framework development
Reusable automation components
Functional and regression automation
Test data and test environment handling
ALM integration: automated execution and result management
CI/CD integration
Test maintenance and stabilization
Automation modernization
Troubleshooting complex enterprise test environments
Upgrading and modernizing OpenText ADM environments
An established OpenText ADM environment is rarely a single application. It may include:
multiple ALM domains and projects
repositories and databases
customized workflows
UFT libraries
identity integrations
third-party integrations
reporting platforms
CI/CD integrations
historical project data
Upgrading or migrating such an environment is an engineering project, not a simple product installation: every customization, integration and data set has to be analysed, carried over or redesigned, and validated.
Possible transformation paths
ALM to a newer ALM version
ALM to ALM Octane
ALM and ALM Octane in coexistence
UFT automation modernization
Archival of ALM and PPM data
Redesign of surrounding integrations
Which path fits, on its own or combined in phases, is decided per environment after an assessment.
ALM to Octane migration
Moving from ALM to ALM Octane is more than moving data. Projects, processes, test assets and integrations all need a place in the new platform, and teams need to keep delivering during the transition. We support the migration engineering and the transition design:
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Source environment assessment
Domains, projects, customizations, integrations and data in the current ALM environment.
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Project and workspace mapping
How ALM domains and projects map to Octane spaces and workspaces.
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Process and data mapping
How existing workflows, entities and fields translate into Octane.
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Migration planning
Scope, sequence, phases and cut-over for each group of projects.
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UFT asset migration
Carrying UFT tests and their execution over to the new platform.
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Validation
Checking migrated data, test assets and integrations before teams switch.
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Integration redesign
Reworking CI/CD, identity and other integrations for Octane.
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Phased transition and coexistence
Moving teams in phases, with ALM and Octane running side by side where needed.
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Post-migration support
Support for users and for the platform after the switch.
Wider ADM experience
LoadRunner and performance engineering
We work with OpenText LoadRunner where performance testing is part of a wider ADM environment.
Performance-test architecture and execution environments
Scenario design and workload modelling
Integration with application delivery and quality workflows
Result analysis and troubleshooting
Wider ADM experience
OpenText PPM
OpenText PPM often sits alongside ALM in the same application delivery landscape. Our PPM work centres on its data and the systems around it.
Enterprise PPM environments and their integration with ALM
In an ADM landscape, each product covers one part of application delivery:
ALM / Quality Center
Requirements, quality management and testing
ALM Octane
Agile, DevOps and modern software delivery
UFT
Functional test automation
LoadRunner
Performance testing
PPM
Project and portfolio management
Around them sit the systems they depend on:
Identity providers
Databases
CI/CD
Reporting
Cloud platforms
Custom integrations
Upgrades, migrations and incidents often cross these boundaries. VOTUM works across them instead of treating each OpenText product in isolation.
Managed OpenText ADM operations
An OpenText ADM landscape needs owners after go-live. We provide L1–L3 support for OpenText ADM environments, with 24/7 monitoring and support available under agreed SLAs.
L1
User intake, basic checks and first-level resolution
L2
Application and platform investigation, configuration analysis and remediation
L3
Deep technical troubleshooting, integration issues, code- and configuration-level fixes, root-cause analysis and permanent remediation
Incidents in an ADM landscape can cross several layers:
ALM
Octane
UFT
Authentication
Databases
Application servers
Integrations
Infrastructure
L3 engineering support is one of our core strengths: following an issue through these layers to its root cause and fixing it permanently. The scope of each engagement is agreed individually: in the software delivery platform case below, the managed-services scope covered L1–L2 user support under agreed SLAs.
Members of the current VOTUM team have delivered enterprise projects involving OpenText ADM technologies before VOTUM IT EOOD & Co KD was founded in 2024.
Transformation and long-term operation of a centralized enterprise software delivery and testing platform built around OpenText ALM and UFT, including platform consolidation, migration of legacy systems and managed platform support under agreed SLAs.
Read the case study →Data Migration & Cloud Architecture
Migration and archival of historical OpenText ALM and PPM data into a new architecture using PostgreSQL and AWS RDS, keeping records and attachments accessible.
Products, customizations, integrations, data and processes, and what has to change.
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Scope and success criteria agreed before build
Scope, priorities and success criteria are agreed with you before upgrade, migration or automation work starts.
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Deliver in controlled steps
Upgrades, migrations and automation are delivered in phases, with results validated along the way.
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Operate or hand over
We operate the environment under agreed SLAs, or hand it over with documentation and knowledge transfer.
Need support with an OpenText ADM environment?
Whether you are operating an established ALM platform, introducing Octane, modernizing UFT automation, working with LoadRunner, migrating PPM data or planning a broader ADM transformation, our engineering team can help.