System software development requires professionals.

Here's what industry leaders say about it:

Drivers are hard. Period. This isn't an endeavor for a novice developer. Anyone writing a driver is expected to write concurrent, re-entrant code, understand the architecture, and be able to do kernel debugging. And that's before we get to the hard stuff.

Overall, I think it's getting more complex.

Jean Valentine, former Windows DDK Program Manager at Microsoft in "NT Insider"

The driver crisis needs to be addressed ....

James Turner, LinuxWorld Magazine April 8, 2005

The problem spots tend to be in outlying areas, especially driver code.

Linus Torvalds, OSnews October 10, 2001

What does it take to make a great product?

Why Software Technologies Group?

At Software Technologies Group, we specialize in product development.

Software Technologies Group is an engineering services company that is focused specifically on helping companies develop products. Most of our customers are OEMs and they come to us for help in a variety of areas. Some may need help with a particular piece of product development like device drivers, application programming interfaces, adding support for standards, porting to new operating systems, etc. Some come to us for end to end product development.

From the design phase through hardware and software development, prototyping, pilot deployment, certification, all the way through support for full production, Software Technologies Group can help.

The advantages of working with STG include:

End-to-End development - STG can be your single source for hardware and software design and development including design, prototyping, implementation, manufacturing, pilot deployment and certification. Here's an example project.
Software Capabilities - Our development and testing environment includes all major UNIX variants, Windows 2000/XP, Linux, MacOS and more. We also have an extensive in-house network covering the major networking technologies to support our development and testing needs.
Hardware Capabilities - We offer custom design of board level products (with technologies such as 802.15.4, USB, Ethernet) as components or fully cased, labeled, and ready to ship. We can guide products through complex certification and regulatory compliance including UL, FCC & CE OEM.
Rapid response times - In much less time than it would take to recruit, hire and train a staff of specialized engineers, you'll have your project already moving towards completion.
Lower capital outlays - You won't need to add physical resources to support your development projects. STG delivers our services from our fully equipped, dedicated development facilities. Your capital is free for other important uses.
Lower overhead costs - You'll save the costs associated with hiring staff, retaining a pool of skilled engineers and the overhead costs associated with hiring permanent employees. You'll have no problems keeping highly specialized and skilled staff busy when your project ends.
Flexibility - With STG, you can scale projects up and down as your needs dictate with a flexibility much greater than that possible with an in-house development staff. As the demands of your market grow, you can adjust the amount of development resources at your disposal. This gives you the flexibility to both respond to rapidly changing conditions as well as maintain fiscal control.
Focus - You can focus on your core competencies and let us worry about complicated product development. Focusing on the things only you can do to allows you to maximize your efforts and reach your goals.

Proven Methodology

Our methodology is based on sound project management and product development principles. It helps ensure our customers get reliable, cost effective services. We've been providing services since 1990 and proven experience completing successful projects over the years. We use that experience to help you reach your goals.

To help ensure a successful project, we follow a carefully honed recipe:

Functional and Design Specifications to make sure functional and design issues are understood before project implementation starts
Prototyping to get early customer feedback and demonstrate important project features
Regular status reports and meetings so you always have up-to-date information on project status
Project change control mechanisms that allow the project to respond to the real world without getting out of control
Source code and design change control systems to ensure that project modifications, revisions and enhancements are tracked
Test plans and automated test suites where applicable to prove the final product deliverable does what it was intended to do
Definitive acceptance criteria to let everyone measure the quality of all deliverables against specific and objective criteria

Support

We can help you get up to speed on what we've done at whatever level is necessary. Your staff can get the design walkthroughs and the training needed to make sure that they are familiar with the delivered project. We can also provide on-site integration to ensure that there is a clean transfer of knowledge from our heads to yours.

In addition, we can train your support staff to make sure they are familiar with any new products so they can answer questions and resolve problems quickly and help to get your customers back on track so you can keep looking good.

To help keep things running smoothly, we offer warranty support on all fixed bid projects and can provide quotes for long term support under a variety of contractual terms. Additionally, we can provide backend support to your technical support staff to resolve problems, answer questions, and respond to your customers once a product is in the marketplace.

When your name goes on our work, we don't just disappear. We're still behind you all the way so you look good. With STG, you're never alone!

Services for Product Developers

System software development requires professionals.

What does it take to make a great product?

Why Software Technologies Group?

Proven Methodology

Support