Enhance productivity within Microsoft Environments

MKS has created deep integrations into various Microsoft offerings in an effort to enhance productivity of developers and knowledge workers, and to streamline the creation and management of documents, designs, plans and code across the application lifecycle. MKS Integrity integration points span project planning in Microsoft Project, requirements gathering and document authoring within Microsoft Word, and task scheduling and assignment and software creation with Microsoft Visual Studio.

MKS Integrity and Microsoft Office productivity tools:

Knowledge workers front many software projects today and spend much of their day within productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and Outlook. MKS Integrity allows knowledgeworkers to actively contribute to, and participate in the development lifecycle.

• Import documents directly from Microsoft Word to MKS for better collaboration and management throughout the lifecycle
• Export and synchronize content and tasks between MKS and Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project for real time information exchange and decision support
• Up, down and cross-stream e-mail notifications of change are automated thereby enhancing inter- and intra-team communication and awareness
• Maintain consistency of all documents across the development lifecycle through process enforcement
• Improve team collaboration through direct management and authoring of document content
• Track changes as well as authorizations to documentation and presentations

MKS Integrity and Microsoft Visual Studio Development:

This integration provides for very powerful development, allowing developers to access application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities such as versioning, change management and requirements management without ever having to leave their familiar IDE.

• Increase quality and reliability of business critical applications - through transparent access to enterprise SCM & process management
• Control development complexity and improve productivity – developers can follow process and maintain audit trails from the .NET environment IDE
• Up, down and cross-stream e-mail notifications of change are automated thereby enhancing inter- and intra-team communication and awareness
• Maintain constant communication between teams – information on developer activity is refreshed instantly for immediate visibility reducing rework and coding conflicts. MKS's integration between MKS Integrity and Visual Studio .NET 2005 offers the following capabilities:
• Flexible configuration of .NET web projects using "solution root"
• Support for optimistic locking methodology with merge resolution at time of check-in
• Prevention of ~SAK temporary files improving user experience
• Documentation around best practices for bringing .NET solutions and projects under version control