Software Product Line Vendors

BigLever Software. Software product line tools (Gears) and methods, software product line tutorials, assessments, pilot projects, deployments, and consulting services. Software mass customization methodology automates production from feature models and core assets.

Delta Software Technology. Develops generative technologies for the implementation of product lines: ANGIE, a frame-based generator language, and HyperSenses, a model-based system for the development and application of generators. Used as internal core technologies as well as for research and commercial projects.

ESI (European Software Institute). Software Factories Implementation services based on Product Lines technology. GNSIS tool for big organizations developing hundreds of applications a month. V-Manage tool for small/medium organizations that want to implement a Software Product Line.

Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering. Software product line assessments, deployments, and consulting services. KobrA methodology to software product line engineering. Supplier of BigLever Software GEARS software product line technology.

MetaCase. Software product line tool MetaEdit+ supports Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages and code generators. With MetaEdit+, a company’s domain engineers define the specific language, application engineers model product variants, and custom generators automate product derivation.

pure-systems. Software product line tools (pure::variants), assessments, pilot projects, deployments, and consulting services. Specialized in embedded software product lines. Feature model based approach to software product line engineering.

SEI (Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute). Software product line assessments (Product Line Technical Probe) and consulting services. Framework for Software Product Line Practice and Software Product Line Acquisition methodologies for software product line engineering.

Semantic Designs. Provides tools (DMS) for producing product lines using generative technologies, targeting arbitrary languages, with specific strong support for C, C++, Java, and C#. Contract tool construction and consulting.

Software Acumen. Software product line tools, assessments, pilot projects, deployments, training and consulting services. Distributes pure::variants in the UK and Ireland.

University of Duisburg-Essen / Software Systems Engineering. Software product line training and coaching, especially requirements engineering, variability management, product line adoption, COTS selection, and testing.