- MKS Integrity
MKS Integrity is an enterprise software tool that provides
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities spanningrequirements management , software change and configuration management,test management and release management disciplines.Distinguishing Features
MKS Inc. has built the capabilities for each of the disciplines defined under ALM on top of a single platform rather than a series of distinct tools integrated into each other. This concept is forsoftware development whatProduct lifecycle management is for hardware product development. Also supported areSoftware product lines are reuse at the object level.tandards supported
Integrity supports
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) andCapability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi),Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Requirements Interchange Format (RIF).hortcomings
An important part of ALM is software modeling or
Model-driven engineering . Currently Integrity has no capabilities in this area.Competitors
Other tools in this general space include
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System ,Borland Management Studio, Serena Software, and IBM withRUP andIBM Jazz .Release History
* MKS Integrity Solution 4.0 - July 2001
* MKS Integrity Solution 4.1 - December 2001
* MKS Integrity Solution 4.2 - September 2002
* MKS Integrity Solution 4.3 - May 2003
* MKS Integrity Solution 4.6 - June 2004
* MKS Integrity Suite 2005 - February 2005
* MKS Integrity 2006 - April 2006
* MKS Integrity 2007 - July 2007External links
* [http://www.mks.com/ MKS website]
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