Lufthansa Systems Utilizes MKS Solution for ITIL and Requirements Management

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 30, 2005) - MKS Inc. (TSX:MKX) announced today the successful deployment of the MKS Integrity Suite^® at Lufthansa Systems, one of the world's leading full service IT providers and industry specialists for the airline and aviation sector. Lufthansa Systems manages and monitors the lifecycle of revenue management from capturing initial requirements, across all development activities through to deployment to production. Lufthansa has now expanded its adoption of the MKS Integrity Suite to include ITIL and requirements management.

MKS is one of the first vendors to support, integrate and connect IT operations and development processes with a single system and architecture modeled after the Information Technology Infrastructure Library^® (ITIL). The highly flexible process and workflow engine from MKS provides standardized processes to manage the four core functional areas of ITIL- Change Management, Configuration Management, Problem Management and Incident Management.

As part of the ITIL workflow, the generates and collects metrics for the Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) by which Lufthansa Systems can accurately measure, monitor and manage the exact progress of revenue management.

"Lufthansa Systems especially profits from the optimization and transparency of processes as well as the cost efficiency gained," says Thomas Hornek, Managing Director, MKS GmbH. "This enables our customer to develop its application faster, more effective and at a lower cost."

To meet the demands posed upon innovative application development, the MKS Integrity Suite captures all business and technical requirements early in the process, and then links these requirements to developer tasks. Predefined workflows automatically notify users of changes during every step of the process. All steps in the process are automatically documented and logged along with their change history in the MKS knowledge base. "This allows development tasks and business processes to be repeatable and reusable," summarizes Mr. Hornek.

About MKS

MKS is the premier provider of application lifecycle management solutions for the global 1000. MKS's solution spans from requirements management to deployment providing customers with enhanced development productivity, visibility over processes, and improved IT controls for regulatory compliance. MKS's software is distinguished by its single architecture and deep integration of features delivering collaboration throughout the development lifecycle, rapid implementation and low total cost of ownership. 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).

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