Atego Launches Atego Process Director for DO-178

SAN DIEGO, California and CHELTENHAM, England, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Atego Process Director's DO-178 Process Library

Atego™, the world leading software tools and professional services supplier for complex, mission- and safety-critical systems and software engineering has launched the DO-178 Process Library for its ground breaking process definition, management and deployment product, Atego Process Director™.

Atego Process Director for DO-178 provides more than 350 basic process elements (including processes, criterion, document templates, roles, reviews, checklists, techniques & tool definitions) plus 1,000+ relationship links.  These can be used, modified, extended and rewired to suit each organization's individual DO-178 process needs.

"The launch of our DO-178 Library significantly extends Atego Process Director's preloaded process content, helping our customers on their DO-178 projects," said Hedley Apperly, Vice-President of Product and Marketing at Atego. "Coupled with Atego Process Director's highly productive and contemporary process authoring environment this new library provides engineers with the timely guidance they need when building and certifying software for airborne systems."

Atego Process Director brings DO-178 to life with: automated BPMN Diagrams, animated-auto-layout Relationship Graphs, a Q&A based Project Startup Wizard, automated Microsoft Project™ plan creation, engineer specific To-Do Dashboards and automated Email Notification.  Elaborating, tuning and deploying your DO-178 processes is easy, with appealing and inclusive approaches that actually achieve process buy-in and lead to improved compliance, quality and productivity.

"We have distilled the combined knowledge of our Atego HighRely airborne software certification experts into this Atego Process Director library, to radically reduce the learning curve, project planning time and process maintenance costs.

These are some of the best DO-178 consultants in the world who are also available for DO-178 Library process tuning and extension" said Vance Hilderman, Atego HighRely President. "This library of pre-loaded DO-178 guidance templates and checklists gives you all the benefits of Atego Process Director with a DO-178 jump-start."

Atego Process Director libraries typically save up to a 25% on initial process research time.  While inherent process consistency usually leads to a 30% reduction in process maintenance overheads.  Atego Process Director startup wizards can also lower project initiation effort by 45%. What's more, you don't have to take our word for it. Atego Process Director metrics capture facility provides tangible results to aid process improvement and prove return on your investment.

About Atego

Atego is a world leading software tools and professional services company, focused on helping organizations engineer complex, mission- and safety-critical systems and software. With today's systems and software engineering projects continually growing in complexity, Atego's collaborative development tools, robust runtime environments, certification know-how and supporting services enable abstraction, optimization and automation - dramatically increasing quality, security and productivity.

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