A Management Framework for Outsourced Development Boosts Speed and Controls Costs

Offshore & outsourced development is a broad trend impacting most IT organizations today, and a strategy aimed at the CIOs need to control rising development and IT costs, while tapping into talent pools around the globe.

CIOs and development managers may engage in offshore development – with a ‘captive audience’ of corporate staff in foreign markets, or they outsource development - frequently in the form of standalone projects or routine maintenance to a third party firm in some part of the world.

MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management supports offshore development by allowing international teams to collaborate in real time within a single management and standardized process framework. Using a global repository and Federated Server Architecture&trade, organizations can implement an effective follow-the-sun development environment without compromising communication, collaboration or productivity.

MKS Integrity supports outsourced development by providing a management framework that both directs and controls the work of the third party firm; ensures the third party works within corporate policy and process guidelines for compliance, and allows corporations to maintain a high level of security over requirements, tests, source code and other intellectual property.