BigLever's Customer Inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 10th International Software Product Line Conference; LSI Logic Receives Recognition by the Software Product Line Community.AUSTIN, Texas -- BigLever Software(TM), a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, today announced that its customer, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, was inducted into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC Student Press Law Center (nonprofit organization dedicated to providing legal help and information to the student media and journalism educators) SPLC Splice SPLC Standard Point Location Code 2006). Using BigLever's Gears solution, the Engenio Storage Group division of LSI Logic has established one of the industry's most notable software product line successes, which was acknowledged at the conference as an example of excellence and highest achievement in the field. SPLC 2006, sponsored by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), is the leading forum for software product line practitioners and researchers. The Hall of Fall was created to recognize distinguished members of the community and to improve software product line practice by spotlighting the best examples in the field. Companies elected for membership in the Hall of Fame serve as a model for what can be achieved with software product line development technologies. Previous Hall of Fame inductees include BigLever customer Salion (2004 inductee), a provider of revenue acquisition management systems. "We greatly appreciate being acknowledged by the industry for our software product line accomplishments," said Ann Martin, director of firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. development, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic. "With BigLever's solution and ongoing support, we've established a leading-edge software product line practice that enables us to create, evolve and maintain a differentiated product line to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers." LSI designs and manufactures high performance modular enterprise storage platforms and storage management software that is delivered to end users through strategic partners including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and Teradata. "Being inducted into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame is a well-deserved honor for LSI," said Charles Krueger, BigLever Software CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "In our engagement with LSI, we've had the opportunity to work with one of the industry's most talented development organizations -- and to see our Gears technology become the foundation for a major software product line success story. This is a very rewarding experience for BigLever." About BigLever's Gears Solution Gears is a software product line development tool designed to simplify and accelerate the development of software for a portfolio of similar products with variations in features and functions. With Gears, software development organizations can augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: their existing development tool set to develop their product portfolio as a single system -- rather than a multitude of products. Gears can be used in any or all stages of the portfolio development lifecycle, for more effective requirements management The administration and control of the information needs of users. In order to achieve business objectives within an organization via information systems, user requirements must be defined in a consistent manner, prioritized and monitored. , change and configuration management, source code development, software builds, testing, and document development. About BigLever BigLever Software, a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. or standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. software for a product line portfolio. BigLever's patent-pending solution, Gears, enables software development organizations to reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.biglever.com. |
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