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ALM Data Archiving After Migration: How to Preserve Engineering History When Decommissioning Legacy Systems

Replacing an ALM system shouldn’t mean losing years of engineering history. Learn why legacy data retention matters, why common workarounds fail, and how purpose-built ALM data archiving helps organizations preserve traceability, compliance, and institutional knowledge after migration.

OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) Community Edition facilitates bidirectional integration for popular Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.

For organizations looking for meaningful collaboration among their cross-functional teams, comprehensive integration is a necessity. The Community edition of OIM supports bi-directional integration for Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps Server (TFS), OpenText ALM (Formerly known as Micro Focus ALM), Azure DevOps Services (VSTS), Digital.ai Agility, Jama Connect, Jira Align, Rally and Salesforce. All key features of OIM Paid edition have been included in the Community Edition (Free version).

OIM Community Edition allows users to:

Create bidirectional integrations among Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps Server (TFS), OpenText ALM (Formerly known as Micro Focus ALM), Azure DevOps Services (VSTS), Digital.ai Agility, Jama Connect, Jira Align, Rally and Salesforce
Rich data sync including comments, attachments and links, among others with data integrity
Configure, monitor, and manage integrations without coding using GUI-based interface
Sync every entity and update to the target as intended. It includes out-of-the-box mechanisms to handle system downtime, unexpected failures, and conflicts—ensuring a reliable and seamless synchronization process
Manage end-to-end traceability for all data synchronized between the integrated systems

Entities supported for the supported systems

OIM Community Edition vs. Other Free Integration Solutions

Complete transaction history

Easy on infrastructure requirements: Never slows down your ecosystem

Stable upgrade path

Multiple deployment options: Hosted or local, support for multiple operating systems and databases

Real-time bidirectional data integration

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about OIM Community Edition

Is OIM Community edition available for download?

Yes, the installer file for OIM Community edition is available on OpsHub Community. Register on the community to download the installer.

From where can I procure an OIM Community edition license?

You do not need any license for OIM Community edition. Simply download the installer file from OpsHub community and get started. For other editions, write to sales@opshub.com.

For how long can I use OIM Community edition?

OIM Community edition comes with lifetime free subscription. OpsHub will also provide periodic updates with new features.

How easy is it to use OIM Community edition?

With OIM Community edition, anyone can configure integrations. Simply follow three steps:

Download
Install
Create an Integration

Refer to the Product Guide for further details.

Can OIM community edition be installed on the same machine on which one of the end systems is installed?

Yes, OIM Community edition can be installed on the same machine on which one of the end systems is installed. However, the machine on which OIM is being installed must fulfill certain software, hardware, and database pre-requisites.

ALM Data Archiving After Migration: How to Preserve Engineering History When Decommissioning Legacy Systems

OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) Community Edition facilitates bidirectional integration for popular Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.

OIM Community Edition allows users to:

Entities supported for the supported systems

For both Azure DevOps Services / Azure DevOps Server: All System and Custom Work items such as Bug, Change Request, Epic, Feature, Impediment, Issue, Product Backlog Item, Review, Requirement, Risk, User Story

All System & Custom Issue Types [For example: Bug, User Story, Epic, etc], Sub-Task Types

All System and Custom Tables

Defect, Requirement

All System/Custom Item Types [For example: Defect, Epic, Persona, Portfolio, User Story, etc] except Attachment, Core. Component, Set, Folder

Capability, City, Customer [Read Only], Defect, Epic, Ideation, Initiative, Portfolio, Product, Program, Program Increment, Region, Release Vehicle, Snapshot, Sprint, Story, Task, Theme, Value Stream [Read Only]

Backlog Item, Defect, Epic, Goal, Issue, Request, Task, Theme, Build Run, Actuals

Portfolio Items, Defect, Task, User Story, Change Set [Write support only]