GEENSYS

InfoTech Consulting and Geensys in distribution partnership for Reqtify in Nordic region

Paris , France - 9 June 2008. Geensys, the specialist provider of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software IP, has appointed InfoTech Consulting as its Nordic region distribution partner for Reqtify, its flagship tool for the automated management of embedded requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis throughout the hardware and software development lifecycle.

In addition to providing in-depth sales and support services in the Nordic region for Reqtify, InfoTech Consulting will also draw on its extensive requirements management expertise to provide specialist consulting services to ensure the value-added deployment of Reqtify in real project environments and its seamless integration with customers’ existing tool chains.

“This is more than just a distribution agreement with Geensys, it is a partnership for the Nordic market,” said Anders Norberg, General Manager of InfoTech Consulting. “Requirements-based engineering as a whole is moving towards adoption of the kind of intelligent and pervasive technology that Reqtify delivers. It is one of the most agile requirements management tools on the market and we are very enthusiastic about the opportunity to open up the Nordic market to the benefits and value Reqtify can deliver.”

Reqtify is the most widely deployed solution for addressing requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis in the most demanding, safety-critical domains such as the aerospace and defence, railway transportation, automotive and medical instrumentation industries. It enables automatic and customisable document generation as evidence that a product meets certification and/or quality constraint requirements at all times throughout the development cycle. Launched recently, Reqtify 3.1 includes significant new, user-requested features and usability enhancements, third-party interface additions and improvements, and a new RIF import/export gateway.

Thanks to its impact analysis and requirements coverage capabilities, Reqtify gives all project stakeholders a thorough insight into the effort required to complete each project task (specification, design, V&V activities, integration) and for each product release. It gives a unique and global view of the overall project status enabling project leaders and quality managers to perform risk analyses and to prove compliancy with project requirements and constraints. With Reqtify, engineers can continue to use their existing working environments to fulfill traceability objectives. Verification engineers can link verification plans and results to both system and technical requirements assessments to prove that all requirements have been properly verified. Designers and coders can easily add traceability data within their authoring tools or directly in the code itself using their favourite IDE. This way, everyone stays in their “comfort zone” with Reqtify acting as a “data broker” and monitoring the overall coherence against project objectives. As a consequence, visibility of project metrics and final project quality are drastically improved.

“With this distribution partnership with InfoTech Consulting, our customers will not only benefit from localised support on Reqtify but also from the advanced services on requirements management that InfoTech is uniquely able to provide in the Nordic region,” added Olivier d’Arros, International & OEM Business Unit Manager for Geensys. “The agreement also further extends the global reach of Geensys and Reqtify which we are achieving through the establishment of a variety of direct offices, OEM arrangements and distribution agreements.”

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About Geensys

Created through the formal merger of two of France’s most innovative and dynamic companies in the embedded market - TNI Software and Ayrton Technology – Geensys is a powerful new force in the provision of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services, and embedded software IP. Geensys is privately-owned and operates on a global scale through direct sales offices in France, Germany, Japan and China and through resellers in the USA and Europe. Geensys brings together a broad range of complementary embedded services and products founded on a commitment to quality, backed by an extensive, well-proven track record and designed to satisfy the embedded development requirements of the global automotive, aerospace, defence, railway, industrial automation and telecommunications industries.

About InfoTech Consulting AB

InfoTech is a privately held consultancy and product company located in Stockholm, Sweden. InfoTech provides expertise in model-based enterprise modeling, requirements management, systems engineering and software development. InfoTech's core focus is to help customers succeed with enterprise, requirements and systems engineering and to provide the market with leading tools suites from companies including Geensys and Artisan Software Tools. InfoTech also provides training in model-based development and develops custom UML and SysML profiles. InfoTech’s h eadquarters are located at Box 8156, 163 08 Spånga, Sweden. World Wide Web site: http://www.infotechconsulting.se/.