MKS is the rapidly growing thought leader in application lifecycle management, which enables software engineering and IT organization to seamlessly manage their worldwide software development activities. With its flagship product, MKS Integrity, MKS offers support for all software development activities through a single enterprise application, resulting in better global collaboration and higher productivity. MKS supports customers worldwide with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

Government IT leaders are seeking greater levels of agility and collaboration in their software development efforts, to facilitate large transformations within application development such as the move to SOA, adoption of agile methodologies, or the implementation of standardized processes.

At the same time, government is seeking to reduce IT complexity, protect critical software assets, and control costs.

MKS we provides a range of capabilities for US Government agencies and contractors. Their application lifecycle management platform provides a secure and scalable management platform to manage change across every size and shape of Government organization.

MKS Integrity is MKS’s flagship platform for application lifecycle management. MKS Integrity is the only solution on the market today to provide complete application lifecycle coverage from requirements management to deployment of change to production via a single solution and architecture.

With MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management, Government IT leaders and contractors gain real time information on the status of change across their entire application portfolio; streamlined collaboration across geographic and team boundaries and a platform that enhances efficiency, speeds innovation and meets today’s agile development and compliance demands.

Features and Benefits

• Single solution and platform supporting every phase of the application development lifecycle
• Highly flexible process capabilities enabling support for agile and other development methodologies and maturity models
• Support for application portfolio management, including real time metrics and trend for application development performance monitoring and project execution
• Deep audit trails for compliance

MKS Integrity

MKS Integrity extends process and control across each stage of the application lifecycle, spanning all major enterprise applications, platforms, locations and players. From first requirements to retirement, and for every change request, MKS Integrity provides control, visibility and collaboration -- cutting across team, location and lifecycle silos, uniting the entire technology organization through a common management platform.

Enterprises around the world and in every sector -- financial services & banking, insurance, automotive, defense, transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and pharmaceutical/healthcare rely on MKS Integrity.

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MKS Toolkit - UNIX / Windows Operability

Mixed environments can make for headaches, but diversity also does some good.  Instead of choosing between Windows and UNIX/Linux, organizations are opting for a mix of the two operating systems. But seamless cross-platform operation doesn't happen on its own. Smoothing the rough spots between UNIX/Linux and Windows calls for high-quality tools that address all the usual development issues and ease transition to the 32 and 64-bit systems required. The MKS Toolkit products allow pure Windows users to automate routine tasks with scripting and increase productivity with file and text manipulation tools, batch search and replace tools, and scheduling interfaces. MKS also offers a variety of tools for porting from 32-bit UNIX and 64-bit UNIX environments - and most importantly, for porting from UNIX/Linux to Windows 64-bit operating environments and cross platform development tools. The MKS development toolkits are a feature rich environment with a comprehensive UNIX/Linux and Windows integration management scheme designed to manage Windows environments using UNIX commands and scripts.

MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Developers, the award winning and industry-leading Windows / UNIX interoperability solution, dramatically improves the compatibility between Windows and UNIX environments.
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MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers (formerly NuTCRACKER) is the proven solution for porting robust, mission-critical UNIX applications to Windows.
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MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-bit Edition simplifies the migration 64-bit UNIX applications to 64-bit Windows enabling customers to deploy their UNIX/Linux applications on both Extended Architecture (i.e. AMD64 and EM64T) and Itanium-based platforms.

Additional MKS Toolkit Products

MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers - a subset of MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers, the Professional Developers product is an ideal solution for the migration of non-graphical, character based, UNIX C, C++, and Fortran applications and utilities to Windows.

MKS Toolkit for Interoperability - extending MKS Toolkit for Developers by adding a complete X server for displaying X Window System-based graphical applications, including OpenGL and Motif applications, on Windows.

MKS Toolkit for System Administrators - a subset of MKS Toolkit for Developers, the System Administrators product is a powerful administration suite that gives you the ability to move data and files between machines, remotely administer systems, and perform backups across multiple platforms.

White Papers

Automating Compliance for Software Certification - Leveraging Change and Configuration Management to Automate Compliance with FAA DO-178B and Other Federal Compliance Standards

Many IT professionals who rely on manual methods for software configuration and change management are faced with great difficulty when creating and maintaining comprehensive records and detailed documentation trees with complex relationships. These manual processes can be very time-consuming, error-prone, costly and frustrating for all involved. Commercial and military aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers who are subject to stringent FAA regulations and intricate software certification processes have an especially strong need to leverage powerful software configuration management tools and technologies.

This white paper demonstrates how MKS Integrity can be used to streamline these processes with automated workflow, making the change process enforceable and repeatable across the entire application lifecycle.

Leveraging Application Lifecycle Management to Achieve CMMI Maturity Level 3 and Higher on Government Programs

As government organizations strive for more controlled and consistent software development processes, the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMISM) continues to be a leading methodology for measuring and improving software development processes. It is not a process description, but is meant to provide guidance to use when developing processes. Central to any software process improvement effort should be a process-centric application lifecycle management solution, such as MKS Integrity, which provides the control necessary for implementing CMMI.

This white paper will help government organizations and supporting contractors that are trying to implement disciplinary CMMs or the CMMI. The paper focuses on providing an understanding of the requirements and tools that are necessary for an organization to reach CMMI Level Three. It also features a short case study on Lockheed Martin’s successful attainment of CMMI-SE/SW Level Five certification with the help of MKS.

An Innovative Approach to Managing Software Requirements

Requirements may be the most critical aspect of the software development cycle. Studies point to a more than 60% failure rate for software projects in the U.S., with poor requirements as one of the top five reasons. Managing requirements must be an integral part of an organization’s overall development process, and is vital to mitigating risk on large development projects.

This paper introduces you to MKS Integrity for requirements management, the only solution available today built as an extension of an application lifecycle management platform. Further, this paper reviews the current state of the requirements management tools landscape and details how requirements are authored, captured and traced through the downstream lifecycle, how companies can utilize best practices such as parallel development and reuse in relation to requirements and how configuration management concepts such as versioning and base lining can be leveraged for advanced requirements management practice.

MKS can be found on the web at www.mks.com