Manage and Control Code, Collaboration and Change with Software Configuration Management

As part of an Intelligent ALM™ solution from MKS, our Software Change & Configuration Management (SCCM) offers industry-leading competence to move beyond simple versioning and configuration to improve and accelerate the development of software.

MKS Integrity enables organizations to develop and deliver software in a collaborative and agile manner. At the core of the MKS Integrity application lifecycle management platform are process-driven software change and configuration management (SCCM) capabilities that deliver traceability and transparency over all activities and artifacts across the application lifecycle.

With real-time lifecycle visibility, development teams can make well informed decisions and centralize planning, measurement and reporting efforts. Explicit support for software development best practices such as parallel development, refactoring and software reuse improves productivity and reduces time to market.

MKS Integrity for software change and configuration management answers critical development questions:

• What is the risk of the project running over schedule or budget? What tasks are at risk or destabilizing changes for the project?
• Is QA testing the right configurations? Are they reproducible?
• How can we ensure that our development processes are defined and consistently followed by developers? How do we prove this to the auditors?
• How do we implement a software (component) reuse strategy to reduce our time to market?

What Makes MKS Integrity for SCCM Unique?

• Drives greater productivity by enabling real-time global team collaboration
  Enable follow-the-sun development with multi-team geographic collaboration and coordinated process enforcement and visibility over all aspects of product or application delivery. A unified data model and single platform are where all processes, activities, artifacts and code reside.
• Improves team communication and visibility with task-based change management
  Intuitively manage change at a task level, and gain real time status on committed changes to the underlying configuration and intended changes that others are working on, allowing developers to make informed decisions and avoid conflict rather than resolve it. Developers can work at a higher level than individual file changes, improving visibility for both managers and developers.
• Speeds time to market with comprehensive support for software reuse
  First class support for reuse, provides developers with the ability to configure components, selecting different branches of development for given components, or freezing components at a particular version. MKS Integrity is also unique in its support for the reuse of requirements, test cases and other document based artifacts.
• Delivers greater visibility across roles, projects and the lifecycle with end to end lifecycle traceability
  Changes to code are linked directly to the related tasks, with traceability to related artifacts or activities such as requirements and tests, as well as other projects. Such traceability provides tremendous value in terms of automating communications and calculating metrics to aid in decision making. Dashboards, charts and reports can be generated in real time, based on live data.
• Enhances auditability by enforcing a consistent set of development processes across the lifecycle
  Define and enforce a consistent, unified set of development processes across the various phases of the development lifecycle - requirements management, change management, software configuration management, test management and release management. Workflow, authorization and assignment capabilities control who, what, when and where change happens.