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Method Park Software AG has joined forces with three other leading training providers. Method Park, based in Erlangen, wishes to collaborate closely with KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH from Kornwestheim, SQS Software Quality Systems from Cologne and SynSpace GmbH from Freiburg to optimize the range of automotive training all four companies have to offer. The aim is to work together on the planning, implementation and marketing of courses and training on Automotive SPICE® during process improvement measures. To achieve this, the course documents from each training provider are already being reworked and standardized.

At the same time, the partners have signed a framework agreement with the Quality Management Center of the German Automotive Industry Association (VDA QMC), and have together developed three completely new courses for Automotive SPICE® which are recognized by the VDA QMC. These courses address engineers, group leaders and department heads who require specialist SPICE knowledge for implementation purposes but who do not wish to undertake assessor training themselves. Interested parties can now also attend a range of courses focusing on engineering, management and support processes relating to Automotive SPICE®.

With these new and standardized courses, KUGLER MAAG, Method Park, SQS and SynSpace wish to contribute to the availability of basic and advanced training in automotive software development at the high level required. This is crucial, as the proportion of software used in automotive production is increasing continuously, and the software systems employed there frequently need to fulfill the most stringent safety requirements. The training measures for the employees in this field must therefore reflect these requirements. Prof. Dr. Bernd Hindel, chief executive officer of Method Park Software AG says, “We are convinced that our collaboration with KUGLER MAAG, SQS and SynSpace will make a decisive contribution to assuring the quality of these training measures.”

About Method Park
Method Park has been a successful consultant on issues of software in safety-critical systems in the automotive industry and in medical engineering applications for many years now, and also develops individual software solutions in these fields. Comprehensive know-how is channeled into those areas where the most stringent quality and safety requirements are demanded. With its know-how, Method Park provides its customers with diverse solutions from one source. These solutions contribute to the success of each and every company.
Method Park is a competent partner for consulting, coaching, training, engineering services and products when it comes to software development processes. The web-based process management portal “Stages”, developed by Method Park, provides users with support during the practical implementation of development processes. Stages ensures that specified quality standards (e.g. CMMI, SPICE) and process models (e.g. V-Modell XT) are fulfilled. It facilitates distributed, global collaboration beyond company boundaries.
Method Park, which was founded in 2001 in Erlangen, has a more than 120 employees at sites in Erlangen, Freiburg, Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, as well as in Detroit and San José in the US.

For further information please contact
Margit Brendl, Public Relations
Method Park Software AG, Wetterkreuz 19a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-281, Fax +49 (0) 9131 9 72 06-280
E-Mail: Margit.Brendl@methodpark.de
www.methodpark.de

About KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH
KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH is an international consulting company and provides support to its customers primarily in the area of process improvement. Using recognized standards such as CMMI®, SPICE (ISO IS 15504), Automotive SPICE®, Safety (IEC 61508, ISO CD 26262), ITIL, Lean Six Sigma and COBIT, tangible improvements in terms of cost, quality and time may be achieved. These process improvements enable our customers to implement their industry-specific requirements. Our employees are experts with many years’ experience in implementing improvement programs.
KUGLER MAAG CIE is among the rapid-growth consulting companies with a focus on successful management of product development processes and services both nationally and internationally. Renowned customers from the automotive, financial, healthcare and railway sectors have already benefited from our consulting services, operative support as well as practical, individual training measures for the further development of their companies.
KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH now has almost 80 employees. These are based both at the company headquarters in Kornwestheim near Stuttgart, in the subsidiary in Troy (North America), as well as in Asia, Eastern Europe, Italy and Austria.

For further information please contact
Eva Contzen, Marketing
KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH, Leibnizstr. 11, 70806 Kornwestheim
Tel. +49 (0) 7154 17 96-100, Fax +49 (0) 7154 17 96-480
E-Mail: Eva.Contzen@kuglermaag.com
www.kuglermaag.de

About SQS Software Quality Systems
The SQS Group is the largest independent provider of quality management services and software testing. Headquartered in Cologne, SQS now has around 1,450 employees worldwide. Besides a strong presence in Germany and the UK, SQS has further subsidiaries in Egypt, Finland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and the US. SQS also holds a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and has a partnership operation in Spain. In 2008, SQS achieved a turnover of 142.9 million euros.
SQS is the first German company that is listed on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) of the London Stock Exchange. Beyond that it is represented with a second listing on the Open Market on Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt.
With over 5,000 successfully completed projects, SQS has a strong customer base, including half of the DAX 30 companies, 30 percent of the STOXX 50 companies, as well as 36 FTSE 100 companies. Clients include Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post, Barclays, Allianz, Meteor, BP, Daimler, JP Morgan, Volkswagen, Daimler as well as companies from other industrial sectors.

For further information please contact
Liliana Preuß, Head of Marketing & PR
SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Stollwerckstr. 11, 51149 Cologne
Tel. +49 (0) 2203 91 54
E-Mail: Liliana.Preuss@sqs.de
www.sqs.de

About SynSpace GmbH
SynSpace provides support to its clients to facilitate the optimum design of their IT services (products and services). We achieve this using an integrated and innovative approach that covers everything from IT strategy to support during technical implementation. SynSpace is an independent consulting company headquartered in Basel, Geneva (CH) and Freiburg im Breisgau (D). Since its founding in 1990, the company focus has been on the design and optimization of software engineering and management processes. In this area, SynSpace is among the leading companies in Europe. With our subsidiaries HM&S in Graz (A) and TIOBE in Eindhoven (NL), we are also able to provide our customers with competent services in technical areas such as tools and code analysis.
SynSpace has seen continuous growth since 1990 and today employs over 40 experienced consultants, the majority of whom have an engineering and IT background.

For further information please contact
Sabine Vogel, Marketing
SynSpace GmbH, Die Prozessmanufaktur, Kartäuserstr. 49, 79102 Freiburg
Tel. +49 (0) 761 4 76 45-65
E-Mail: Sabine.Vogel@synspace.com
www.synspace.com