CWI spin-off Software Improvement Group won the national Innovator Award 2007 during the National ICT Event on 23 October 2007. This award, an initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, is one of the most important ICT prizes of the Netherlands. In 2005, SIG won the R&D Innovation Award.
The jury said: "The Software Improvement Group won the Innovator Award 2007, because it offers companies the opportunity to challenge their software product a quality mark. Furthermore, the product contributes to the entire ICT-branche".
The Software Improvement Group (SIG) gives fact based insight in the technical quality of software systems: "We analyse any software source code in an automated manner. Whether it is a 30 year old mainframe system, or a brand new web application, it can map out the quality of the system, measure the changeability and assess the situation- all based on automated analysis of source code".
"Innovation is all about timing", says Prof. Paul Klint - head of CWI's Software Engineering Department and co-founder of SIG. "As researchers we always think that it is easy to get an idea across, but the people at SIG know as no others how much effort that requires. They have developed the right feeling for combining market needs with innovative ideas."
CWI is very proud to be the founding father of this successful company!
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