MKS makes compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 easier

With the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), software and tools designed to automate the process of compliance will come into higher demand. Many IT departments are working against deadline to implement effective controls over critical systems and applications. While Sarbanes Oxley compliance may seem like a burden today, ultimately, it can aid you in creating leaner, and more focused business processes, and improving IT controls –- if done right.

Sarbanes Oxley automation tools are used by companies who play to win and are focused on formalizing their application development lifecycle. Process and workflow and application lifecycle management from MKS are being used to lock down the process of building, maintaining and changing systems and applications. Companies such as Magellan Health, Caesars Entertainment, Verizon Wireless, Campbell Soup, Aveda and DressBarn are all using our software to gain new levels of productivity and for Sarbanes Oxley compliance automation. By automating the compliance effort, resources you are currently redirecting to SOX are freed up, enabling you to put your IT projects back on track and you back in the game.

"In the rush to meet last November's initial SOX deadline, many companies had to resort to manual systems to ensure change management control, and these systems are cumbersome and costly to maintain.

Companies are looking to replace these manual systems with automated change management controls, and this should spur additional investment in application life-cycle management tools such as software configuration management systems. MKS was one of the first SCM vendors to specifically target this opportunity."
- Melissa Webster, Research Director, Application Development and Deployment research group, IDC

By using the MKS Integrity for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance you can:

Control access to financial applications and applications tied to revenue generation.
Define and automate process and approval cycles surrounding change to applications across all enterprise platforms including distributed, iSeries, and mainframe, and ensure that process cannot be circumnavigated.
Maintain a version and detailed audit trail of every change to your systems and applications including all associated documentation.
Manage the deployment of change back into a production environment
Achieve a low cost of ownership through the implementation of a single solution that is simple to install, implement and administer

Our solution for SOX compliance consists of requirements management, process and workflow, versioning, deployment and release management in addition to process and lifecycle management best practices and expertise.

MKS is a leader in software application management, harmonizing the disciplines of application lifecycle management (ALM) and IT Service Management with its enterprise software platform, MKS Integrity. Delivering end to end coverage across the application development lifecycle. MKS Integrity's capabilities include requirements management, software configuration management (SCM), software change management, software build management and software test management, through to software deployment and release management, and IT portfolio management. Our customers can better meet IT governance and compliance goals, achieve high levels of software process maturity, measure project performance and make substantial productivity gains at an overall low total cost of ownership.