MKS has become an essential partner in addressing the challenges of software complexity faced by leading enterprises in various geographies and industries.
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"We have just scratched the surface of the potential to deliver outstanding service to our clients. MKS offers a single repository that can span across the application development lifecycle as we build improved client solutions. With MKS, we have an unprecedented level of visibility and traceability that allows us to deliver superior solutions for our clients."
Stan Thompson, Release Manager, Baker Hill
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"This was a rock solid implementation plan and effort against a really aggressive deadline. To get 500 people up, running and productive in a mere 10 weeks is nothing short of a miracle. Kudos to MKS, its partners and our team for their focus and ability to execute."
Charlie Whitney,Tools Manager, BNSF
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"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."
Masaki Kato, Group Executive, Products Planning Group, Canon
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"We thought the features on Implementer were stronger for our needs. Before the advent of our change management strategy, oftentimes our applications were up and down based upon the amount of change going on. [Now] we institute 50 different project changes a week in probably an average of 600 objects, and we do it seamlessly and without pain."
Bob Halvorson, Senior Technical Architect, Conseco Finance
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"After an extensive examination of all leading software configuration management tool offerings and a very successful field pilot, we have selected MKS as the best fit for our worldwide software configuration needs. More than any other, MKS delivers a solution that meets our significant technical requirements for enterprise SCM."
Helmut Fennel, Vice President, Continental Teves
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"We needed a cross-platform SCM solution that would improve our way of managing change without losing our focus on quality. MKS held a unique position of providing us with a common software management solution that spanned all our development platforms."
Tony Pack, DBA, The Dixie Group
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"MKS has played a key role in Fiserv Insurance Solutions' ability to pass the SAS 70 [Statement on Auditing Standards, No. 70] audits, and aiding the company in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We have not only passed every single SAS 70 audit since implementing, but have passed corporate and client audits as well, building additional trust between our customers and differentiating ourselves from our peers."
Terry Crawford, Director, Technical Services, Fiserv Insurance Solutions
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"Your organization not only provides a quality 'tech support hot line' but has infused the sales team with a soup-to-nuts support attitude. The result is a happy customer and more applications of your technology (requiring more licenses)."
Matthew Zaleski, R&VT Vehicle Dynamics, Ford Motor Company
"It became clear to us that the MKS SCM solution offered H-E-B the most flexibility, scalability, and cross-platform support of any SCM solution on the marketplace. MKS also provided us with process expertise illustrating how MKS Integrity Manager can work with our existing schedules and streamline our development processes over time for additional productivity payback."
Gavin Nichols, Director of Information Solutions, H.E.B. Grocery Company L.P.
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"Historically, IS change processes have been managed by individual business units across the globe. Making the MKS technology more widely available in our environment will improve global visibility and improve operational efficiencies through tighter integration of lines of business, development and IT operations and reduce costs on a global scale. Heinz anticipates a reduction in redundant and inefficient processes within the next three to six months as we globally implement standard processes and leverage a common tool. The additional enhanced cross-team communication and collaboration MKS affords is also expected to improve overall IS governance throughout our international environment."
Shirley Weinstein, Global IS Director, H.J. Heinz
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"MKS has enabled us to become compliant with Spice Level 3, and we have significantly reduced development time for each project. We have cut our three year development cycle by a third with a significant increase in scope per project, and a doubling of projects on an annual basis."
Mr. Jurgen Belz, Head of Automotive Software Standards, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co
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"Primarily, MKS impressed us with its high technical standards. MKS's solution was installed within five days, and during the initial year, the entire expense of administration and the implementation of the MKS Solution for approximately 30 users was below 5 percent of the annual workload of our project manager. This resulted in a very positive price-performance ratio for our total costs."
Stephen Riehm, Project Manager, Home Shopping Europe AG
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"We looked at the market extensively for a solution to manage our requirements and it became very clear that only one solution provided a complete integration with our development and test environments, and this was MKS Integrity. Now, with MKS Integrity 2007, we have the ability to not only integrate all requirements right to down to the source code, and across to quality management, but also have the capability to represent these requirements as interrelated items in an easy to manage document, complete with rich text and other document management features."
Tom Clark, Head of Quality Implementation, HSBC plc.
"We were pleased to see how easy it was to design and construct process within MKS Integrity, and how quickly the system could be implemented. MKS's application lifecycle management platform facilitates collaboration across our distributed teams, and elevates our overall level of process control particularly in the area of software releases."
Michael Tröndle, CFO, Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
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"We are required to configuration manage everything we do. The primary benefit to us is cost avoidance-we're fined if we don't use SCM tools. MKS allows us to build and enforce more controls and incorporate regulations right into the software development process."
William Jones, Configuration Manager, Lockheed Martin Services
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"The MKS solution offers us the necessary visibility from product development to utilization up to maintenance. We can correct errors as soon as they arise and know the current status of all projects at all times. This has enabled us to considerably improve the quality of our applications. We were impressed at how quickly the MKS solution was implemented and adapted to our needs. Afterwards, we could work with it effortlessly. MKS greatly surpassed our expectations."
Rainer Bartholdt, Team Leader Service Management, Lufthansa Systems
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"Developing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining systems that allow Magellan to provide high levels of service to members, customers and providers is vital to our success. Further, compliance with the laws and regulations that govern our business and with contractual and accreditation requirements is critical. Achieving and maintaining compliance requires active participation and coordination with our customers, providers and business associates. We selected MKS for its people and support just as much as for its technology, and are confident that the value MKS brings to our business and to our customers will allow us to continue this mutual commitment to excellence far into the future."
Jeff Emerson, CIO, Magellan Health Services
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"Unifying the test process function into the overall application lifecycle is a key differentiating ability provided by MKS. When information resides in various point tools, the result is fragmented, disconnected information flow which we believe is a significant barrier to productivity and innovation. MKS's unified lifecycle approach frees our organization to collaborate effectively and respond quickly."
Frank Gauld, VP, Global Software Engineering, NCR Financial Services Division.
"SCM tools need to be bullet proof and backed up with a good, enforceable process. Luckily, we have both and work hard to keep them intact. Where the real savings come in is in large projects where people must cooperate. We couldn't manage the large projects without MKS Integrity."
Brad Garner, Configuration Manager, Nu Skin Enterprises
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"Although we only went live with MKS three months ago, we feel as though we've had it in place for a long time. We are just beginning to see the measurable results with MKS and look forward to using the data to make longer term strategic decisions about our resource use and planning."
Rick Nichols, Director of IT, Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
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"Due to the automation of IT change requests, Peggy Dunn estimates that she has personally saved 5 hours per week since moving from a manual to an automated approval process for change requests, translating to an approximate savings of $13,000 per year. With the additional automation of eight issue types, others in the company have also gained more productive use of their time. The administrative burden associated with filing paper documents and manually creating reports for various user groups has been drastically reduced, and project lifecycles have shortened. Puget Sound Blood Center has benefited from an annual cost savings of greater than $40,000 and quickly achieved a positive ROI on its investment in MKS."
Peggy Dunn, Director of IT, Puget Sound Blood Center
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"Since the implementation of MKS Integrity, we have experienced near-perfect release management of changes to mission critical business applications, which has resulted in increased efficiency of our internal resources, improved productivity and delivered cost savings."
Jim Relton, RWE IT UK
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"In less than one year, Sungard SCT's Solution Center organization has implemented MKS Integrity for our international software development operations. With these products in place, we are better able to track our source code, map work to requirements, and manage project activities. These products offer more information and control to our project teams. The MKS people and services in support of these products have been excellent to date."
Rick Matina, Vice President, Sungard SCT
"MKS Integrity will allow us to grow into the Capability Maturity Model for Software gracefully. Also, with Swisslog's move to ISO certification, the Controls group has a jump on our internal process to aid the ISO certification overall."
Scott Skrine, Controls Engineer and Manager, Swisslog Healthcare Solutions
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"We are extremely impressed. We have been able to rapidly install and implement the software, and train our staff across three locations in a very short period of time. Teams are now productive with the MKS Integrity Solution and we are already realizing the results of enterprise SCM technology, particularly with respect to global development team communication and collaboration via the MKS Federated Server architecture. We are on target to reach our goals to decrease the total cost of ownership by 30 percent and increase the development speed by 30 percent."
Philiep de Sutter, CTO of Tele Atlas
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One of the main measures for success in the implementation of MKS Integrity was the reduction in the amount of paper and forms that get manually pushed from person to person. By simply automating service request forms and routing them via electronic workflows we have become much more effective, and dramatically reduced our time spent managing projects."
Tom Loane, Chief Information Officer, TEVA Pharmaceuticals
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"The MKS offering was distinctive from all others in two significant ways. First, it offered very effective support for remote development teams through its Federated Server Architecture, and second, it offered the unique concept of change packages, allowing us to directly tie together a development issue with all related artifacts, including source code."
Benny Chang, Vice President of Engineering, Tundra Semiconductor Inc.
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"We're very happy with the MKS Integrity Solution. By helping us bring control, repeatability and integrity to our software development processes we expect to produce better quality software in less time."
SCM Manager, Verizon Wireless
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"MKS Integrity improved team collaboration. Thanks to simpler communication, the adjustment within the team was easier. We save time, reduce the costs, and have better control."
Wilfried BÄcher, Department Head of Technical Development, WMF AG
"Xenos delivers a range of enterprise-class data and document management solutions to Global 2000 and midsize companies around the world. We rely on MKS Integrity to help us maintain control over our source code across multiple product lines in a centralized repository, in a way that matches the dynamic needs and processes of our development teams. We have been a satisfied MKS customer for years and look forward to continuing this very positive relationship."
Raymond Cheong, Director, Information Solutions, Xenos Group Inc.
"Since we adopted MKS as a corporate SCM Standard (our shop has used PVCS, ClearCase, CVS, Razor previously and we have migrated several of these tools archive into MKS quite successfully) users have found it to be an intuitive and easy system to pick and learn. I find that all I require to ramp a team up is a 45 min. demo of the toolset and then a half hour follow up with each individual for specific questions."
Hector Angel, CM Tools/Process Specialist, xwave
