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Mitsui Adopts MKS for ALM
TMCnet Contributing Editor
MKS Inc. has announced that Mitsui Knowledge Industries Kabushiki Kaisha ("Mitsui" to his friends and family) has selected MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management and IT Service Management process control and metrics.
Also announced today, Mitsui and MKS have established a strategic partnership where Mitsui will provide its customers in the Japanese market with ALM products based on MKS Integrity, and supply consulting, implementation and customer support in Japan for MKS Integrity.
Mitsui's initial implementation will enable Mitsui to automate its project and quality control processes into MKS Integrity, and run a project end to end from requirements gathering through design, development, test and release, enforcing process adherence and ensuring that all documents and approvals are in place as the work moves across the application lifecycle.
MKS Integrity enables Mitsui to coordinate project work across multiple locations in Japan and China, enabling Mitsui to use "best value skills, without risking control or quality," according to company officials.
MKS Integrity provides control and access to work for each project role and team member, collecting time spent on each project task in a non-intrusive manner. MKS Integrity provides metrics for management and auditors.
This seems to be the most productive reason for ALM in the first place. Bill Houglum, Director of Engineering at Birdstep Technology, says that for his company, "Multivendor ALM significantly increases our ability to stay in control of our lifecycle environment and use the strongest tools in their respective category."
Jim Duggan, research vice president, Gartner (News - Alert), stated, "Geographically distributed and outsourced development teams, parallel and service-oriented development are just a few of the increasingly exotic problems more prevalent today that require a more unified convergence of the lifecycle. Effective software configuration management tools are the glue that helps address these issues."
In addition to improved team productivity and application quality, MKS officials say, this visibility and traceability "enable management to control quality, cost and schedule and also confirm adherence to process."
Based on this experience with MKS Integrity, Mitsui as an MKS strategic partner will provide advice and consulting to large Japanese organizations on how to use MKS Integrity to increase quality, productivity and control through automation of ALM and ITSM processes.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page.
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