The Challenge

Innovation plays a key role in successful enterprises, but must be a managed process. Managing innovation is particularly of importance in industries engaged in embedded systems development. The embedded systems market is characterized by such market considerations as: consolidation and globalization; rapid innovation and competitiveness; cost efficiency/reduction and productivity improvements; security and intellectual property protection concerns; and regulatory compliance.

Embedded Systems Realities

• High degree of complexity of environments and interactions between systems and a rising percentage of software within embedded components
• Software code reuse and re-engineering
• Rapid innovation and release cycles in response to shifting market demands
• Real time requirements management, and requirements reuse
• Increased focus on quality and process maturity

The Solution – Managed Innovation with MKS Integrity

MKS Integrity combines powerful requirements management, test management and software configuration management with flexible process and unified change management enabling organizations to manage innovation.

MKS delivers an end-to-end lifecycle management solution that enables embedded systems teams to manage innovation, to direct complex development activity, maintain clear and continuous lines of communication between development centers around the globe while facilitating agility and rapid release cycles, and retain a high level of software quality and IP protection while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.

• Improve development efficiency through a synchronized change management process for hardware and software
• Leverage product variant commonalities with greater reuse of requirements, test and source code assets
• Simplify manufacturing hand-offs through unified hardware and software bill of materials