The 2006 edition of the MKS Integrity builds on MKS’s integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy with feature-rich capabilities for application portfolio management and enterprise-level staging and deployment. MKS continues to be the only ALM vendor in the market today to deliver complete lifecycle management coverage from requirements to deployment to portfolio management via a single solution built on a single architecture.
Announcing MKS Integrity 2006
Aimed at IT managers and executives, MKS Portfolios is an integrated set of features within the MKS Integrity product and extends MKS’s coverage of the application lifecycle to deliver application and project portfolio metrics and trends in real time. Unlike other portfolio solutions that are loosely coupled to lifecycle management tools and the data repository, MKS Portfolios is built as an extension of the lifecycle and harvests the valuable information generated through daily application development transactions and processes.
MKS Portfolios offers:
- Rapid and effective decision-making for CIOs - through lifecycle data, metrics and trending connected to the application lifecycle visibility and spanning application development activities, operations and investments;
- Performance & manage by exception monitoring – through an active inventory of applications and projects, configurable ranges and views and visual red-yellow-green performance indicators;
- The ability to act and respond in real-time – a configurable dashboard gives instant access to metrics and trends with drill-down capabilities directly into lifecycle activities;
- A complete picture of AD productivity and efficiency – through trending and cost analysis across multiple projects, applications and across time;
- Improved communication between AD and Project Management Office - through bi-directional integration with Microsoft Project;
- Integral Design – The antithesis of bolt on, after-market technology. The single repository allows users to transition from portfolio summaries, charts and metrics directly into requirements, source code, test plans, documentation and other related application lifecycle artifacts
Also Announcing – MKS Deploy
MKS also announced the delivery of enterprise staging and deployment capabilities as part of MKS Integrity 2006.
Compliance demands coupled with increasing volume and rate of change to systems is pushing IT organizations to adopt more automated and controlled processes for deployment. MKS Deploy is an enterprise staging and deployment system allowing release teams to implement a secure, robust and flexible release management processes which scale to hundreds of server deployment targets.
MKS Deploy features include:
- Multi-level staging system that implements approvals and a deployment process. Version-control provides detailed reporting and deployment roll-back capabilities;
- Secure audit trails, separation of duties and approval cycles tightly control deployment procedures to ensure compliance requirements are met;
- Intelligent agent technology manages transfers, executes deployment actions and supports multiple deployment sources, target locations and all types of deployment artifacts.
And if That’s Not Enough...
MKS Integrity 2006 includes much more – for a full overview of this new release download the What’s New in MKS Integrity 2006 and What's New in Implementer 2006 documents.
Availability
MKS Integrity 2006, including MKS Portfolios and MKS Deploy is available direct from MKS. For pricing and sales information, please contact your MKS sales representative at 1-800-265-2797 (North America), +44-1483-733919 (UK), +49-711-351775 0 (Germany) or +65-6832-5534 (Asia Pacific).
How do I Upgrade?
The MKS Integrity 2006 and Implementer 2006 is available for download directly from the MKS Customer Community. Customers may also request the upgrade on CD. The CD shipment includes printed copies of the manuals. Customers are encouraged to check back with the Community for further availability updates.
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MKS Integrity 2006 Webinars:
- What's New in MKS Integrity 2006 for Application Lifecycle Management, July 13
Details and Registration - What's New in Implementer 2006 for iSeries Software Configuration Management and Deployment, July 25
Details and Registration - What's New in the 2006 Version of CA AllFusion 2E CM for iSeries Software Configuration Management and Deployment, July 27
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: Implementer 2006 for iSeries Software Configuration Management and Deployment
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: Making the Programmer's Life Easier with Graphical Capabilities for the iSeries
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: What’s New in MKS Integrity 2006 for Application Lifecycle Management
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: Introducing MKS Deploy – Reducing Risk for Enterprise Staging and Deployment
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar:MKS Portfolios – Bringing 100% Real-Time Visibility to the Application Development Organization
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: The ABCs of Release Management
Details and Registration - Recorded Webinar: Software Metrics: 10 Traps to Avoid
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