VSoft Technologies Forms Partnership with MKS and Adds MKS Integrity Integration to FinalBuilder

VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd is pleased to announce that FinalBuilder 5 now includes integration with MKS Integrity. MKS and VSoft Technologies have also formed a Technology Partnership which will ensure that the integration between MKS and FinalBuilder will be up-to-date and well supported.

Canberra, Australia (PRWEB) November 16, 2006 -- VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd is pleased to announce that FinalBuilder 5 (released on 24th of October 2006) now includes integration with MKS Integrity. MKS and VSoft Technologies have also formed a Technology Partnership which will ensure that the integration between MKS and FinalBuilder will be up-to-date and well supported.

"We had many inquiries about adding MKS Integrity integration in FinalBuilder, and we're very pleased that the integration work is now complete" says Vincent Parrett, VSoft CEO. "All up, there are 19 FinalBuilder actions to support the various tasks that an automated build process needs to accomplish. For example, adding files, checking out, checking in, creating a change package, adding a label, creating a sandbox and of course resynchronizing. There is also a generic action which allows execution of any MKS SI function if there isn't a native action that supports a specific function."

TRX Inc., a leading independent provider of transaction processing and data integration services to the global travel industry helped test the new integration. "We are very happy with what we have seen during the testing of the new MKS Source Integrity integration in FinalBuilder." says Anthony Angulo, Manger of Software Development at TRX. "FinalBuilder has added a rich set of MKS compatibility that supports the majority of the functionality necessary for our goal of totally automating our build and deployment needs. We look forward to removing our old command line integration with MKS and moving to doing everything in the FinalBuilder environment. We have been using FinalBuilder for years and have seen VSoft's commitment to customer satisfaction by continually adding features that help us work faster, smarter, and with less bugs."

The new MKS actions in FinalBuilder present a user interface that makes adding MKS Integrity functionality to the build process easy. For example, the Check Out action has fields which make selection of the Sandbox location and Member as easy as browsing for a file in the filesystem, as well as checkboxes to set the various properties like "Lock Members" and "Mark as Work in Progress". The FinalBuilder actions allow the user to perform a wide variety of operations and has an extensive set of options in each action.

"Build management is a critical step in the software lifecycle and in the software release process. Process optimization at this phase can save both time and minimize risk to production environments. We are pleased to extend our partner network to include VSoft Technologies. Their innovative approach to speed up build and release management systems fits very well with the MKS Integrity platform. The market will be well served by the seamless integration of FinalBuilder with MKS Integrity" states David Martin, MKS vice president of Product Management.

About VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd and FinalBuilder

VSoft Technologies is the leading provider of automated build software for Windows developers and configuration management engineers. Founded in 1997, VSoft Technologies are based in Canberra, Australia.

FinalBuilder is an end-to-end build and release management system that dramatically accelerates the software development cycle by automating the build process. It can be used to automate everything from integration with version control systems to compilation of source code to burning a CD or DVD. In addition to increasing the speed and reliability of the build process, FinalBuilder also increases staff productivity by relieving them of repetitive and error prone tasks.

Pricing starts at $379 per developer for FinalBuilder 5 Standard Edition and $499 per developer for FinalBuilder 5 Professional Edition. A fully functional 30 day evaluation copy is available from our website. Visit the FinalBuilder website for more information at http://www.finalbuilder.com/.

Media Contact :

Tate Needham, Business Development

VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd

Tel: +61 2 6282 7488

Email : tate [at finalbuilder.com

About MKS

MKS is the premier provider of application lifecycle management solutions for the global 1000. MKS's flagship ALM solution, MKS Integrity, is the most highly integrated ALM platform in the industry today, spanning all aspects of the software development lifecycle and supporting critical business transformations including SOA, application rationalization and outsourcing. MKS Integrity's single architecture drives high levels of user productivity, facilitates rapid deployment and process standardization while delivering a complete view of application development activity through real time metrics, trends and reporting. MKS Integrity also provides essential support for IT operations through software deployment and issue management. Founded in 1984, MKS serves more than 10,000 customers in countries across the world. Whether through deployment of MKS's solution strategically on an enterprise scale, or by leveraging individual components to solve project-level challenges, our customers can use MKS's software to enable higher levels of process maturity, better manage global development activity and safeguard their most critical business applications and software assets. Under its widely known MKS Toolkit brand, MKS also provides UNIX-Windows co-existence and system administration that significantly cut development and administrative costs and reduce time to market, while enabling enhanced performance. More information about MKS can be found at http://www.mks.com/ or by calling 1-800-265-2797 (US & Canada), +49-711-351775-0 (Germany), +44-1483-733900 (United Kingdom) and 1-519-884-2251 (Rest of World).

US and Canada Media Contact:

Ellyn Winters-Robinson, VP Marketing

MKS Inc.

Phone: 519-883-4346

Email: ellyn [at mks.com

FinalBuilder and Finalbuilder ActionStudio are trademarks or registered trademarks of VSoft Technologies Pty Ltd. MKS Integrity is a trademark of MKS Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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