MKS Integrity for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Technology organizations today are divided by organizational, process and technology walls. Enterprises face the daunting challenge of breaking down the walls that divide to optimize technology performance and delivery. MKS Integrity is a vital underpinning to IT governance and process maturity. Lifecycle data contributes to informed executive decision-making.
With MKS Integrity for unified ALM, today’s dynamic technology organizations can facilitate handoffs between business, software development and IT operations, managing, accelerating and providing visibility into activities at every process stage.
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ALM and MKS Integrity can play a role in supporting the following business initiatives:
- 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 adn reporting over all system transactions and activities, supporting control objectives found within the ITIL, COBIT and ISO frameworks.
- Process Maturity - MKS Integrity provides automated workflows, KPI monitoring and reporting critical for maturity frameworks such as 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Embedded Systems Development - MKS Integrity supports complex development activity characteristic 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.
Read an Analyst Report: Forrester Research: The Changing Face of ALM
