BigLever Software Overview

BigLever Software, Inc.^TM is the industry's leading provider of software product line engineering framework, tools and services. BigLever's patent-pending Gears solution – recipient of the 18th Annual Jolt Productivity Award – dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of embedded or standalone software for a product line portfolio. The Gears tool and unified software product line (SPL) framework shifts the development focus from a multitude of products to a single software production line capable of automatically producing all of the products in a portfolio.

With Gears, software development organizations can reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling the business to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows.

Industry and Technology Leadership in Software Product Lines

BigLever's innovative yet pragmatic SPL approach is enabling mainstream development organizations to successfully implement the latest SPL technologies and methods. BigLever provides the industry's only unified SPL framework for the integration of tools and assets across the full development lifecycle – from requirements to design, source code and testing. With a unique combination of technology, methodology and expertise, BigLever has played an instrumental role in the expansion of SPL technology adoption across a broad spectrum of the software industry.

Through active involvement in key industry organizations and conferences, BigLever brings SPL issues, concepts and success stories to the forefront of the mainstream software development community. BigLever CEO and Founder, Dr. Charles Krueger, is a leading expert in the field, noted speaker and author of numerous papers on SPL concepts, methodologies and real world implementations. Additionally, BigLever sponsors and moderates SoftwareProductLines.com, an online resource and open community website for SPL developers and managers.

Proven Success

BigLever's methodology and technology expertise has been instrumental in establishing the industry's most acclaimed SPL practices. With in-depth experience in supporting successful SPL implementations, BigLever has helped companies adopt industry best practices and transition to SPL practice with a small fraction of the time and effort required by other approaches. Notable success stories include Software Product Line Hall of Fame inductees LSI Logic and Salion.