Overview
Vision for Software Support
Customer Benefits
Kontron's Global Software Center
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- Kontron helps customers to considerably reduce time-to-market by providing state-of-the-art software services
- The services are helping customers to migrate from single-core to multi-core platforms for all important operating systems
- Software development, development teams outsourcing – developers, testers
- Consultancy, design and implementation of software for industrial automation
- Project based software package development for industrial communication, human-machine interfaces and process visualization/control
- Porting of drivers and middleware
- Porting, adoption and validation of target applications
- Validation of complete software solution
Why is Kontron implementing the Global Software Center?
- The strong trend towards outsourcing doesn´t stop at hardware level
- The services are helping customers to migrate from single-core to multi-core platforms for all important operating systems
- We see software services is a vital part of our portfolio
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Our Vision for Software Support
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All Kontron standard products are supported and validated with:
- Board Support Packages for all important Operating Systems like Windows 7, Linux, VxWorks including all drivers and support of all hardware features
- Hypervisor/Virtualization, validated with different Operating Systems (if Hyper-Threading and / or Multi-core is supported by the CPU)
- Software tool chain including common, standardized Embedded API (EAPI)
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How Kontron's Software Center Benefits the Customer
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- Considerably reduce time-to-market due to out-of-the-box HW/SW solutions
- Increased software quality
- Extended variety of application-ready-platforms for dedicated market segments
- Reduced total-cost-of-ownership
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