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Can you Afford Yesterday’s PDI was not going to make this decision ache, faulty releases, would go away.
Inefficiencies Given Today’s Reality? lightly; they were betting the business To support the initial implementation,
PDI decided to evaluate potential solu- on a 10 year plan so they had to make the MKS brought in one of their local partners.
tions. Accurev, Serena, McCabe, IBM/ right choice. Novus Solutions Group is a professional
Rational, Microsoft’s Team Foundation services firm specializing in compliance,
Suite, and MKS, were just some of the After an in-depth round of evaluations, business and software process consulting,
vendors that they looked at. Recognizing PDI selected MKS as their unified ALM ALM best practices and ALM solution
that this would be an enterprise-wide solution provider for: implementation.
shift that could have significant impact on
the business if unsuccessful, PDI wanted > Comprehensive ALM solution with a Working together, MKS and Novus
not just great technology, but also a unified data model completed the implementation of PDI’s
vendor, a partner really, that they could tailored MKS solution in four weeks. Novus’
count on to be responsive and supportive; > Flexible, powerful and easy-to-learn deep consultative experience coupled
a company whose corporate culture was user interfaces; a minimal learning curve with MKS’ ALM thought leadership were
well aligned with their own and that could instrumental in the swift rollout of the
lead them to a better place. > Rapid, easy migration, implementation ALM automation solution. PDI recog-
and evolution nized that the partnership between MKS
and Novus was a strong one and that the
> A lower total cost of ownership corporate culture of both organizations
was a perfect match to their own. The
The MKS ALM solution also provided a MKS team’s responsiveness and reliabil-
secure, robust, and flexible staging and ity was a comfort to PDI; knowing they
deployment capability, allowing PDI to could count on them was a cornerstone
have confidence that their biggest head- of their decision.
Automated support for all software “With its ease of implementation, ability to evolve over time, and
development activities through a single
MKS’s dedication to customer success, we were confident that MKS
enterprise application allowed PDI to
remove many manual steps from their was a solution that we could bet the business on.”
process, resulting in higher quality
Earl Milam, VP Application Development, Professional Datasolutions, Inc. (PDI)
releases, faster, and with less effort. This
allows PDI to have faith in their release
content and confidence that they are
delivering high quality products.
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