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MKS Integrity is the only solution on the market today to provide complete application lifecycle coverage from requirements management to deployment of change to production via a single solution and architecture.

MKS Integrity enables companies to execute business transformation, meet regulatory compliance criteria, and better manage their IT budgets and resources to optimize efficiency, unlock productivity and speed innovation.

There is no suite to install and configure. MKS’s singular architecture offers full lifecycle coverage across projects, platforms, teams and locations while reducing complexity in your IT environment and providing a lower total cost of ownership.

PRODUCT FEATURES

MKS Integrity for Process and Workflow

MKS Integrity for Process and Workflow links each stage of the application lifecycle and software teams through better collaboration and supports enterprise-wide process standardization and maturity. Our powerful workflow engine supports a wide range of processes and methodologies from ad hoc to complex. Flexible configurability allows you to tailor pre-packaged templates, forms, fields, charts and reports according to your organizational needs. MKS Integrity’s platform transparent, advanced multi-tier architecture ensures process control, scalability, security and ease of administration across multi-platform enterprise environments including distributed, System i (iSeries) and the mainframe.

MKS Requirements for Integrated Requirements Management

MKS Requirements is the only requirements management solution available today built as an extension of the application lifecycle, enabling traceability through every stage of the software development process and ensuring collaboration between software development and business users to maximize efficiency, teamwork and clarity. MKS Requirements offers a completely integrated approach, where requirements management is an integral part of a continuous process connecting design, development, testing and deployment phases of the application lifecycle.

MKS Source for Distributed Software Configuration Management

MKS Source provides a time-tested, enterprise-class software configuration management solution to protect critical software assets and support sophisticated development efforts. MKS Source grounds MKS’s full coverage of the application lifecycle with the most enterprise scalable SCM system available on the market today. Powerful and cross-platform software configuration protects critical software assets, provides an audit trail of change, and supports the sophisticated development activities of today’s global AD teams.

MKS Deploy for Enterprise Staging & Deployment

MKS Deploy provides secure, robust and flexible staging and deployment to ensure repeatable and automated deployments of change to production environments meeting compliance requirements and minimizing business risk. MKS Deploy scales to hundreds of server deployment targets and dramatically simplifies release process, offering easy configuration of repeatable, highly automated deployments. Finally, release managers will always be informed and in control of the deployment process.

NEW – MKS for Test Management

MKS Integrity for Test Management is the only test management solution on the market today built as an extension to an application lifecycle management platform. Unlike other standalone vendor offerings, MKS’s solution breaks down the walls between business analysts, development and QA, liberating teams from their silos to collaborate more fully, and with greater ease.

Offering true requirements based testing, MKS Integrity for Test Management provides complete traceability between requirements, test cases, defects and related development activities coupled with suspect link flagging providing teams with improved upstream and downstream information and ensuring your project receives complete test coverage.

BENEFITS TO THE USER

MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management facilitates greater productivity for developers, improves visibility for managers and provides IT executives with the controls and visibility necessary for governance and compliance.

MKS’s single solution brings interaction to a new level. Within one GUI you can view version history, follow development process, and trace requirements to development tasks. Powerful metrics, trending and reporting via Management dashboards, gives Managers and Executives visibility into AD efforts, for both new projects and maintenance, delivering the vital information necessary to make informed decisions, in real-time.

For IT managers, MKS is ITIL certified and integrates with help desk environments. MKS Integrity offers the capabilities to import and export tasks into project planning, capture and manage requirements, assign, track and escalate tasks across distributed, System i (iSeries) and mainframe environments and be deployed over multiple platforms. Additionally, MKS provides IT managers with process and task escalation, templates for multiple methodologies and process models. IT managers will be able to rollback and recreate releases, create and activate graphical process models, authenticate enterprise integrations, implement role-based access and security levels and have centralized archive control.

For developers, MKS offers private developer workspaces and staging prior to commitment as well as change packages, graphical release and history management. A developer never needs to leave their IDE to access MKS’s powerful change and configuration management capability. MKS supports all leading development environments including Eclipse/WebSphere and Microsoft VisualStudio.Net. The other key benefits include parallel development support, component reuse support, conflict resolution, test plan versioning, deep IDE integrations, real-time team collaboration regardless of location or time code and web, client and CLI interfaces.

For the executive, MKS provides access to real-time information to make fact-based decisions fast and enable a more agile enterprise. Visibility over the complete application portfolio via dashboards, including new projects and maintenance activities, enables financial accountability to the business, application rationalization and cost/complexity reduction efforts. MKS Integrity benefits executives through automated audit tracking and control, management reporting, e-Signature support for regulated industries, flexible process-centric architecture, scalability across all processes and platforms, offshore and outsourcing work assignment and control, low administrative burden, rapid implementation and training cycle, and a low total cost of ownership.

MKS Integrity for packaged application change management supports changes to SAP or Oracle/Peoplesoft. MKS’s solution provides complete traceability from the initial end user request through an incident to the import of the change into production. Every change to your SAP or Oracle/Peoplesoft landscape will be carefully, thoroughly and securely managed. Workflows can be easily configured and customized. With MKS Integrity, CIO’s now have a single solution for complete control and visibility into all of their organization’s development projects. Whether the project is an in house custom development initiative or SAP or Oracle/Peoplesoft development changes, MKS Integrity provides process management for all projects. Comprehensive dashboards include reports, charts and graphs providing key metrics on all project’s progress and costs, and . allow drill down into live data for all activities.

Product Details:
MKS Integrity for Process and Workflow
MKS Source
MKS Requirements
MKS Deploy
MKS for Test Management

More Information:
Regulatory Compliance
Metrics and Measurement
Process Standardization & Maturity (CMMI)
IT Service Management (ITIL)
Packaged Application Change Management

Demo - Eval:
MKS Product Brochure
MKS Interactive Solution Tour
White Paper: It’s All About Process
White Paper: An Innovative Approach to Managing Software Requirements
White Paper: Metrics Matter – MKS Prescribes Five Essential IT Metrics for Success

COMPANY INFORMATION

MKS is the premier provider of application lifecycle management solutions for the global 1000. MKS Integrity is the most highly integrated ALM platform in the industry today, spanning all aspects of the software development lifecycle and supporting critical business transformations including SOA, application rationalization and outsourcing.

MKS Integrity’s single architecture drives high levels of user productivity, facilitates rapid deployment and process standardization while delivering a complete view of application development activity through real time metrics, trends and reporting. MKS Integrity also provides essential support for IT operations through software deployment and issue management. Founded in 1984, MKS serves more than 10,000 customers in countries across the world.

MKS Inc.
410 Albert Street
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3V3
Canada

Email: info@mks.com
Phone: 1-800-613-7535 (toll free) or +(1) 519-884-2251

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