MKS Integrity: To use or not to use.
July 09, 2014

MKS Integrity: To use or not to use.

Aman Sehgal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

4.9.0.4745

Overall Satisfaction with PTC Integrity

It is used by the engineering department primarily for software development.
  • Graphical file history representation
  • Release management of software builds
  • Change set management
  • Hot fix and feature releases
  • Main trunk is not protected and has no pre-conditions before committing a fix or feature to it.
  • Conducting reviews is not possible. there is no avenue for people to comment on a check in
  • When working with multiple snadboxes, the client seems to freeze up and needs to be started.
  • MKS Integrity has proved to be particularly useful in the software development process by increasing employee effieciency
  • MKS integrity has also made software development a very efficient process and makes feature releases and bug fixing a lot easier
  • In addition to the above, our organization has been able to support manufacturing easily by reverting to a previous software version in case of an emergency.
  • It has also led to faster time to market for new products.
Source Tree and Stash with Git.

MKS integrity does well in some areas such as merging changes into the main trunk and managing change sets. We actually selected Git after using MKS integrity for over 7 years.
1. Size of the team ?
2. Is there an offshore team as well ?
3. Are people okay with having a centralized server storing all the file information and history ?

Using PTC Integrity

Distributed version control systems are a lot more convenient when developing features in parallel and releasing hotfixes. Also Atlassian's Git and source tree provide protection from checking in on the main trunk and allows people to comment on specific lines of code.