BigLever Software Overview

BigLever Software, Inc.™ is the industry's leading provider of systems and software product line engineering framework, tools and services. BigLever's patented Gears solution dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of systems and software for a product line portfolio. The Gears Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering Tool and Lifecycle Framework™ shifts the development focus from a multitude of products to a single software production system 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 Leadership in Systems and Software Product Line Engineering

BigLever provides the industry's only SPL Lifecycle 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 adoption across a broad spectrum of industries.

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 have been instrumental in establishing the industry's most acclaimed SPL practices including three Software Hall of Fame inductees. 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. General Motors, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, LSI Logic, Ikerlan/Alstom, HomeAway and other companies across a variety of industries have implemented full scale deployments of BigLever's Gears solution to achieve new levels of innovation, economy of scale, competitive advantage, and product line profitability.