One trend that can be observed in the market is that of traceability and DevOps products that extend their offerings to include more than only source control, only pipelines, or just deployments. Examples are GitHub and GitLab, which are adding new services. More integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or DevOps suites emerge, while Azure DevOps has been offering this for years now.

However, there are many companies where these integrated suites are not in place. Teams operate in different ecosystems, leading to different tool choices. Or maybe teams just have different preferences or started adopting DevOps practices at different points in time, with other tools to choose from. No matter the reason, there are many companies that have several tools running for the same job.

Unfortunately, several drawbacks are associated with having disconnected...