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Cost Control

You need to have a handle on software costs, and that can be tough to achieve – particularly in an economic climate where software development and delivery organizations are being asked to produce more with less. This applies to organizations that are delivering software as a part of their products or services as well as more businesses where "IT is a cost center".

Leading economists and industry analysts have noted that software systems "dominate the cost of everything" while at the same time "software is the single biggest driver of productivity growth." What this means to your organization is that the cost of software presents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity, if you can manage it well. MKS helps organizations reduce the cost of software while driving greater profitability, productivity, and quality.

The table below lists common challenges that impact software cost control, along with the MKS platform capabilities that will help you solve them.

 

Issue
 MKS Solution Capability and Benefits
Lack of Software Quality
Software defects cost more to fix as you move through the lifecycle and into production. The cost of maintaining low quality software can literally be unmanageable for many organizations.
  • Automated requirements management captures and manages accurate and complete requirements
  • Comprehensive test management improves validation and reporting
  • Automated review and approval workflows ensure quality
  • End-to-end defect management eliminates gaps and duplicated effort
Inability to Manage Growing Product Lines
When a defect is discovered, does it affect that single product or all variants and products in the line? The answer can mean $millions to many organizations.
  • Advanced reuse of all lifecycle assets including features, requirements, code, test cases, rest results, etc.
  • Perform rapid impact analysis across all products, variants and product lines, based on real-time data
  • Automated propagation of changes and fixes across applicable variants streamlines and simplifies defect management across product lines
Late Cycle Rework
Rework is a huge source of cost and contributes as much as 40% to the average software project lifecycle.
  • Improved capture of accurate and complete requirements early in the development lifecycle
  • Immediate propagation of changes upstream AND downstream 
  • Better team collaboration and communication with a single source of truth
Process Inefficiency and Waste
Manufacturing has known for years that waste and inefficiency is a huge driver of cost. Software is a specialized manufacturing process that is subject to many of the same factors.
  • End-to-end workflow automation and enforcement
  • Identify bottlenecks with comprehensive metrics and dashboards
  • Embrace lean and Agile concepts to drive out waste
Disconnected Tools and Repositories
The total cost of ownership for many organizations to maintain and administer disparate solutions is huge, not to mention the cost of data redundancy and waste caused by many tools and repositories.
  • A single platform for managing all activities and assets
  • An Enterprise integration gateway ensures assets are accessible and relate-able while reducing data redundancy
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