February 2010

Critical Software achieves level 5 in CMMI certification

8 Feb 2010
Critical Software announces that it has achieved CMMI Level 5 Certification (Capability Maturity Model Integration), so becoming a member of a prestigious elite of organizations that, at a global scale, have obtained the most demanding, recognized and hard to obtain quality certification in Software Engineering.

Critical Software S.A. has become the first Portuguese company to achieve Level 5 in CMMI, after also being the first Portuguese company to achieve level 3 in March, 2006. By applying CMMI at Level 5, Critical Software aims to strongly augment its productivity, greatly optimizing the processes associated with software engineering and so attaining a much greater ability to plan, predict and mitigate risks related to software development.

CMMI® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

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Critical Software is a Finalist in the European IT Excellence Awards

2 Feb 2010
Critical Software was one of the four finalists in the European IT Excellence Awards, showcasing the SKIPPER - System, Knowledge, Information, Plant, Performance, EnviRonment - project. SKIPPER is a solution based on open standard, in-line with EDP's corporate architecture, which allows for the leveraging of previous investments in corporate and proprietary systems.

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January 2010

csWMPI II now available on Microsoft Windows 7

18 Jan 2010
Critical Software announces the release of a new version of csWMPI II, capable of scaling up to more than a thousand processors, without any architectural limitation, on Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Data Centric Security: Can Enterprise DRM be a key for unlocking the problem?

18 Jan 2010
The data centric security focuses on protecting the data itself rather than the systems in which it resides. More and more information leakages are occurring as a result of unintentional operation of the internal personnel.

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SARAe Conference - 2010.02.10

14 Jan 2010
This event aims to present the project and disseminate its main results, highlighting SARA tech, the SARAe's main output. SARA tech is a software system designed to address professional management of environmental data that supports the environmental liability evaluation process. SARA tech is customizable for specific customers' needs under the environmental liability directive (ELD).

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December 2010

Critical Software signs agreement with the company Águas de Moçambique

17 Dec 2009
Maputo, Mozambique - Critical Software announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Mozambique and the signing of a contract with the company Águas de Moçambique, to provide consulting services and system integration. Critical Software consolidates a sustained presence in Mozambique, which started in 2001, having since supported the development of some of its more prestigious companies and public entities. Now Critical Software takes another important step in the establishment of its Mozambican subsidiary.

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Critical group promotes corporate fund to invest in start-ups

11 Dec 2009

Capital fund will raise 10 million Euros to support the launch of companies with a technological basis

Critical group announced today the constitution of Critical Ventures I, a venture capital fund meant for investment in companies with technological basis, at an early stage in their development. This fund will harbor, besides capital from Critical Group, capital from other financial investors, both national and international

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October 2010

Critical Software develops technology for climate changes monitoring satellite

30 Oct 2009
SMOS, a satellite designed to gather data for climate changes analysis, will use technology developed by a consortium of Portuguese companies. With launching scheduled for next Monday, November 2, SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) is part of the European Space Agency. "Living Planet" programme and the first satellite designed to map ocean surface salinity and soil moisture at a global scale, contributing to a better understanding of Earth's water cycle.

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