Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineeringsoftwaresystem called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.
The traditional IT model requires systemengineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.
The Carnegie Mellon SoftwareEngineering 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.