WATERLOO, ONTARIO- MKS Inc. (TSX:MKX)
today announced that Canon Software Inc has selected Japanese version
of MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management (ALM) and CMMI.
Canon Software's implementation of MKS Integrity will enable
process automation and document management (including source) for
software projects on open systems (Java, .Net) and IBM System i.
In addition, Canon Software will market MKS Integrity and provide
related consulting services to its customers in Japan, as a solution
for cross platform ALM, CMMI and compliance.
Masaki Kato, Group Executive, Products Planning Group, says "MKS
Integrity's single architecture and coverage of multi platforms enables
us to automate process to coordinate activities and manage documents
for software projects which span different technology platforms. This
enables us to take a business function based approach to software
creation and project management rather than just a technical platform
approach. Our selection of MKS Integrity is consistent with our
strategy to add value to our customers businesses, through the
provision of top quality and high security software development and
operation services."
MKS Japan Managing Director David Jones adds "MKS's investment in a
full Japanese version of MKS Integrity, together with our growing
strong local support and our solution consulting approach has enabled
us to establish this relationship with Canon Software. We are quite
proud to be able to add value to the business of Canon Software and
their customers in the software development/operations market here in
Japan, and we look forward to the joint learning and market experiences
ahead.
About Canon Software Inc.
Canon Software provides a variety of information technology
services such as application development, systems design, and training.
In addition to developing software applications for Canon products, the
company offers outsourced software development services, as well as
packaged business applications. Canon Software was established in 1978.
The company was listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock
Exchange in late 2003.
About MKS
MKS is a globally recognized leader of software application
management, harmonizing the disciplines of application lifecycle
management and IT service management to aid Global companies in
achieving higher levels of productivity, process standardization and
rapid innovation. MKS Japan's domestic customers include IT Frontier,
Mitsui Knowledge Industries, Panasonic, Canon Software, Mitsubishi DCS
Research For more information about MKS, visit our Web site at http://www.mks.com.
About MKS Integrity
MKS Integrity is an enterprise software platform that coordinates
and manages software application activities and configuration items
through the establishment a unified application data framework to
deliver productivity, visibility and compliance. MKS Integrity's
unified approach provides IT and software engineering organizations
with end to end coverage across the application development lifecycle
with capabilities including requirements management, to software
configuration management (SCM), software change management, build
management and test management, through to deployment and release
management, and IT portfolio management. MKS Integrity facilitates
software applications management within large organizations that have a
need for enterprise class scalability, multi-platform capability,
support for multiple geographic locations, traceability, audit ability
and granular access control and security. By spanning all aspects of
the application the development lifecycle, MKS supports critical
business transformations including SOA, application rationalization and
IT outsourcing.
MKS Integrity's unique single architecture approach to ALM delivers
uncompromised visibility, flexibility and scalability across software
projects, platforms (Windows, UNIX, System i and Mainframe), custom and
packaged applications (SAP and Oracle/Peoplesoft), as well as teams and
locations. MKS Integrity can manage any IT workflow or software
process, while uniting process frameworks such as ITIL, CMMI and CobiT
enabling global development organizations to better meet IT governance
and compliance goals, achieve high levels of software process maturity,
measure project performance with real-time software metrics and make
substantial productivity gains for an overall low total cost of
ownership.
Copyright (C) 2007 MKS Inc. MKS and MKS Toolkit are trademarks or
registered trademarks of MKS Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in
this release are the property of their respective owners.
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Company's current views with respect to future events and are subject
to such risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause our actual
results to differ materially from the statements made including those
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Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Should one or more of these
risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying
the forward looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary
materially from those described herein as intended, planned,
anticipated or expected. Although the Company believes the expectations
represented by such forward looking statements are reasonable, there
can be no assurance that those expectations will prove to be correct.
The Company does not intend and does not assume any obligation to
update these forward-looking statements.
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