Corporate Profile for The Software Productivity Consortium, dated Nov. 2, 2001.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Nov. 2, 2001
Company Name: The Software Productivity Consortium
Address: 2214 Rock Hill Rd.
Herndon, VA 20170
Main Telephone
Number: 703/742-8877
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.software.org
Chief Executive
Officer: Werner Schaer
Public Relations
Contact: Greg Friedmann,
Business number: 703/742-7158
Industry: software & systems engineering
Company Description: The Software Productivity Consortium Founded in 1985, the Software Productivity Consortium is a nonprofit, member-based initiative of more than 90 companies, government agencies, and universities, focused on helping its members and customers to leverage systems and software engineering technologies to improve business results. Consortium members include leading companies in the telecommunications, aerospace, information technology (IT), financial and electronic industries, as well as key federal and state government (IT) agencies, all pooling their resources to create a community of interest dedicated to advancing the state of systems and software engineering. By leveraging the use of Consortium technologies and processes in their development programs, Consortium members dramatically improve their productivity, profitability, and time-to-market competitiveness. Current Consortium members include AT&T, Boeing, BAE SYSTEMS, Citibank, DynCorp, Eastman Kodak, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Marconi Communications, Medtronic, Mellon, NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on , NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rockwell, SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. , Unisys, United Technologies Co. (UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. ), Xerox, and forty other leading companies as well as 30 government agencies and universities. The Consortium's member-driven program supports rapid improvement of the processes used to develop large information systems, pursuant to a variety of internationally-accepted standards and frameworks, including the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM(R)) and CMM (Capability Maturity Model) A process developed by SEI in 1986 to help improve, over time, the application of an organization's supporting software technologies. Integrated (CMMISM), ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 and 12200 standards, and other commercial and military quality frameworks. Consortium processes and methods also help members to successfully merge the systems and software engineering disciplines into one cohesive process. Such processes are increasingly adopted by Consortium members as organizational standards for systems and software development. In addition to its offerings in systems and software process maturity, the Consortium offers management and technical solutions for the entire lifecycle of systems development. Consortium lifecycle development technologies address requirements and design through object-oriented and component-based development, automated testing, and measurement. Through aggressive technology adoption programs and training and consulting services, the Consortium helps to ensure that members and customers receive maximum benefits from their participation. Consortium training and consulting services are available on the GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule (GS-35F-5365H). Membership information is available from Dr. Ken Nidiffer at nidiffer@software.org or 703-742-7110. Capability Maturity Model and CMM are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Capability Maturity Model Integrated and CMMI See CMM. are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . |
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