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Our References in Measurement and Prediction
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Reference Projects
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd: Quality Estimation
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd: Quality Estimation
The introduction of the incremental cost estimation method CoBRA® at Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. by Fraunhofer IESE led to a provable reduction of estimation errors to a mere 14% – an extraordinarily low value for IT projects. This industry project was performed in collaboration with the Japanese IPA/SEC – Information-technology Promotion Agency / Software Engineering Center in the context of a technology transfer initiative of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry METI.
ECOPETROL S.A.: IT/Business Alignment
In the year 2010, ECOPETROL, one of the worldwide leading companies in the oil and gas industry, launched an initiative for aligning its IT- and software-related activities better with its business goals. This initiative changed the traditional role of IT from a classical service provider and easily replaceable cost factor in the company to a central information provider that contributes to the company’s success by providing high-quality information when critical management decisions must be made. In order to achieve this, the goals and strategies of the IT department had to be mapped to the business goals of ECOPETROL and their value had to be made more transparent in terms of the overall organization. In addition, a KPI system was developed to enable the objective assessment of the success/failure of a strategy and its optimization over time.
Japanese IPA/SEC: Measurement
Since 2004, numerous novel software engineering methods in the measurement area have been developed together with the Japanese IPA Software Engineering Center (IPA/SEC) in an ongoing strategic cooperation and have been successfully introduced in many companies and organizations in Japan.
BMW Car IT GmbH: Quality Assessment and Benchmarking
Together with BMW Car IT GmbH, a model for analyzing the maintainability of software running in automotive control units has been developed and successfully evaluated in practice. The major purpose was to ensure high quality of software in control units and to reduce rework effort caused by maintainability issues.
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