MKS Integrity for Software Change and Configuration Management
MKS Integrity's powerful software change and configuration management for UNIX, Windows, System i platforms and SAP and Oracle/Peoplesoft environments protects software assets, provides an audit trail of change, and supports popular development best practices such as parallel development and reuse leveraged by global software development teams.
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"Leaders in this market [ Software Change and Configuration
Management for Distributed Platforms] are characterized by
demonstrably complete solutions on a variety of platforms." -- Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008." James Duggan, Daniel Stang; January 23, 2008 |
MKS Integrity for Software Configuration Management features & benefits
A hierarchical project structure organizes source code logically and applies SCM best practices.
- Sandbox environments allow developers to create a private workspace to explore changes, or update code without impacting master project files.
- Modern and reliable Federated Server™ architecture eliminates the need for replication, reduces administration costs and enables real-time geographically distributed development over high latency, low bandwidth networks.
- Task-based development via change packages and staged change package review allows developers to intuitively manage change at a task level, and subject that change to management or peer review prior to committing to the repository.
- Sophisticated project sharing and refactoring support facilitates parallel development, code sharing and reuse of software components and requirements, lowering administration costs and reducing the need for costly rewrites.
Development teams can work flexibly and collaborate with a streamlined locking model that supports optimistic locking; non-exclusive locking and exclusive locking of files.
- A graphical history view provides visibility into a project’s development paths and branches.
- Integrate process management and workflow, requirements visibility, and metrics and measurement capabilities throughout your daily development activities through MKS Integrity’s process and workflow, requirements management, release management and portfolios capabilities.
- Easily integrate configuration management capabilities into existing tools and systems with an Open API.
- Seamless access to all configuration management abilities directly from within leading development environments including Eclipse, IBM WebSphere and Microsoft .NET.
- Streamline conflict resolution and improve application quality through 3-way differencing and merging, automatic branching and merging and graphical drag and drop merge.
- Facilitate real-time team collaboration with automatic project change notification.
- Baseline an entire project or set of requirements at any point in time and freeze completed modules, projects, requirement documents or other sets of lifecycle artifacts.
- Recreate an exact replica of a past version through rollback.
MKS Integrity also provides:
- Java application management, including applets, JSP, Java.
- Web component management, including HTML, XML, ASP, GIF, JPEG, CGI, JavaScript.
- Client/Server application management, including C, C++, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder.
- Database schema management, including SQL scripts.
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