For more than a decade, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE has been enjoying a worldwide reputation for methods and processes based on empirical evidence. Regardless of whether software is embedded in cars, planes, or medical devices: Our project work is based on state-of-the-art scientific knowledge. For our customers we thus safeguard the quality of highly integrated solutions. More and more often, software is the part that adds value to a product, since it is the software that turns high-tech devices into more than the sum of their individual components. Software is therefore not just a module, but a product within the product, and must be developed in an engineering-style manner.