BigLever Software Founder and CEO Selected for Industry Liaison Committee of the Aspect-Oriented Model-Driven Product Line Engineering (AMPLE) Consortium.

Dr. Krueger to Provide Software Product Line Leadership at AMPLE Committee Meeting and Siemens Product Line Day in Munich, Germany

AUSTIN, Texas -- BigLever Software[TM] announced today that Dr. Charles Krueger, the company's Founder and CEO, was selected as a member of the Industry Liaison Committee for the Aspect-oriented Model-driven Product Line Engineering (AMPLE) consortium. AMPLE is a coalition of industry partners, academia and research organizations - from UK, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, and Germany - aimed at combining state-of-the-art aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and model-driven development (MDD) capabilities with software product line (SPL) engineering technologies.

AMPLE was created to "bridge the gap" between industrial practice and research in requirements analysis, architectural modeling and implementation technology for SPL engineering. AMPLE is addressing the full spectrum of problems in SPL engineering through a novel combination of AOSD and MDD techniques. The focus is on providing a holistic treatment of variability by not only addressing variability at each stage in the SPL lifecycle, but also managing variations in associated artifacts such as requirements documentation, manuals and reports.

By bringing renowned industrial and academic experts together, the AMPLE Industry Liaison Commitment will provide strategic guidance, discuss methodologies and tooling issues, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and steer the overall progress of the AMPLE effort. Committee members include industry partners Siemens, BigLever, SAP, pure-systems, and HOLOS, as well as academic members from Lancaster University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Darmstadt University of Technology, ARMINES-Ecole des Mines Nantes, Universiteit Twente, and Universidad de Malaga.

On June 18, 2007 the Industry Liaison Committee will hold a planning and review session at the Siemens facility in Munich, Germany. This session will take place in conjunction with Siemens' Product Line Day to be held on June 19. As a committee member, Dr. Krueger will bring leading-edge experiences and insights to AMPLE based on his pioneering work in combining SPL Development, AOSD and MDD methodologies. At Siemens' Product Line Day, Dr. Krueger's presentation - entitled "The 3-Tiered Software Product Line Methodology" - will provide an overview of this pragmatic new generation methodology that is enabling some of the SPL industry's most notable mainstream success stories.

About BigLever Software

BigLever Software, a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of embedded or standalone 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. For more information or to schedule a meeting during the conference with Dr. Krueger, please contact: Tish Wagner, 707-963-8935/[e-mail].