Intelligent ALM Offers Solutions for your Unique Needs

The adaptability of Intelligent ALM solutions from MKS enables each organization to tailor MKS Integrity for their unique needs. MKS offers a range of standard solution templates and best practices to provide out-of-the-box capabilities to address many solution needs that can be used as-is, or further tailored as needed.

There are already cultural, functional and process barriers between the ALM disciplines for most organizations engaged in the development and delivery of software. For a variety of reasons, the ALM market and many organizations have aligned to follow this model. However, trying to apply disparate ‘best of breed’ solutions to solve the problems of the individual disciplines only adds a technology challenge to the existing barriers.

With MKS Integrity, organizations can deploy ALM solutions that offer coherent competence across the disciplines, eliminating the risk associated with trying to integrate disparate solutions and radically increasing both visibility and traceability across the application lifecycles.

Intelligent ALM and MKS Integrity can play a role in supporting the following business initiatives:

• Embedded Systems Development - MKS Integrity supports complex development activity characteristics of embedded systems development, while maintaining clear and continuous lines of communication between development centers around the globe. MKS Integrity also ensures a high level of software quality and IP protection while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
• Reuse - MKS Integrity accelerates reuse initiatives such as SOA or Software Product Lines (SPL), through the tracking of software components, related requirements, test plans and other artifacts while enabling collaboration between all lifecycle constituents.
  
• Process Maturity - MKS Integrity provides automated workflows, KPI monitoring and reporting critical for maturity frameworks such as SPICE, CMMI and ITIL.
• Application Rationalization - MKS Integrity provides visibility over the entire application portfolio and all related development and maintenance activities, drawing information directly from lifecycle data. IT executives can increase efficiencies and rebalance IT spending to accelerate innovation based on accurate, current information.
• Regulatory compliance – MKS Integrity provides process control and traceability, audit trails, reporting, e-signature verification and roles based security.
• IT Governance (COBIT, ITIL, ISO 12270) - MKS automates processes for requirements management, change request initiation, control and approval, promotion to production, test management and separation of duties, while providing detailed audit trails and reporting over all system transactions and activities, supporting control objectives found within the ITIL, COBIT and ISO frameworks.
• Offshoring/Outsourcing - MKS Integrity allows global teams to collaborate in real time within a single standardized process framework, facilitating direction and control of outsourced firms and ensuring adherence to corporate policy and process guidelines, and security of software assets and intellectual property.