Zia Yusuf zoomed up the ranks of SAP, a German software company, because he offered something that the engineering-dominated company lacked: expertise in corporate strategy.
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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
ABB, a Swiss-Swedish engineering giant, has also developed brainy software that tracks grid flows several times a second and feeds the information to control systems that can respond within a minute or so.
Having just finished a masters in software engineering at Oxford Brooks University, he was looking for a route to Silicon Valley, maybe even becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg.
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This is because the UCITA would ban the reverse engineering of software, a method of development often used to construct links between products.
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Linaro(TM) is a Not-For-Profit (NFP) software engineering company that works with the open source community to make it easier and faster to develop open source based devices.
The types of people Mitchell needs would ideally have experience in a fast growing company and of the engineering demands of large enterprise, Cloud-based software support.
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Nowadays the average software-engineering qualification becomes obsolete in around five years, so a student fresh out of college may be more valuable to a company than a 40-year-old.
Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.
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The biggest computer-aided engineering software firms, Ansys, Dassault Systemes and LMS International, a Siemens subsidiary, have enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in recent years as large customers snap up their pricey suites of simulation and material analysis software.
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