Critical Software
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Critical Software is a Portuguese
information systems
and software company, headquartered in Coimbra
. Critical Software specialises in the development and deployment of software solutions or COTS
based systems. The experience acquired in international consortia with prime contractors around the globe has paved the way for Critical Software to provide services ranging from system planning and analysis, to system design, development, integration and maintenance. Critical Software has also provided engineering processes definition, solution design and support for the development and integration of Safety Critical Sub-Systems.
(IPN), the company was established in 1998 in Coimbra
, Portugal
- its headquarters, and has offices in Porto
and Lisbon
(Portugal) and subsidiaries around the world in Southampton
(United Kingdom
), San Jose
(United States
), Bucharest
(Romania
), São José dos Campos
(Brazil
), Maputo
(Mozambique
) and other locations.
Critical Software supports customers across several markets including Aerospace, Defence, Manufacturing, Telecom, Government, Finance and Energy with core competences that cover Embedded
and Real-Time Systems, Command & Control, Integrated Logistic Support, Security and Infrastructure, Integration, Business Intelligence
, RAMS
and Independent Software Verification & Validation. The company operates a quality system certified to CMMI® Level5, ISO 9001:2000 Tick-IT, ISO 15504, AQAP 2120 and EN9100.
Critical Software has participated in Earth observation related projects of the European Space Agency
, such as the prevention and mitigation of forest fires, ocean monitoring and research on complex climate systems.
is a spin-off company of Critical Software. It is the developer of edgeBOX, which provides data communication services such as VoIP, VPN or Wifi
to Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
is a company of Critical Software founded in 2009 and focused on providing automation and manufacturing software for high-tech industries.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
information systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
and software company, headquartered in Coimbra
Coimbra
Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
. Critical Software specialises in the development and deployment of software solutions or COTS
COTS
COTS may refer to:* Commercial off-the-shelf, ready-made products* Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a program for delivery to space* Crest of the Stars, a manga/anime space opera.* Crown-of-thorns starfish, a reef-coral predator...
based systems. The experience acquired in international consortia with prime contractors around the globe has paved the way for Critical Software to provide services ranging from system planning and analysis, to system design, development, integration and maintenance. Critical Software has also provided engineering processes definition, solution design and support for the development and integration of Safety Critical Sub-Systems.
Overview
A spin-off from the University of Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre Instituto Pedro NunesInstituto Pedro Nunes
Instituto Pedro Nunes is a non-profit private organization for innovation and technology transfer based in Coimbra, Portugal. It is named after the Portuguese 16th century mathematician and professor Pedro Nunes, who lived in the city of Coimbra and worked for the local university.-IPN profile:The...
(IPN), the company was established in 1998 in Coimbra
Coimbra
Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
- its headquarters, and has offices in Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
and Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
(Portugal) and subsidiaries around the world in Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
(United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
), San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
(United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
), Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
(Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
), São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos is a municipality and a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil and one of the most important industrial and research centers in Latin America. It is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo ...
(Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
), Maputo
Maputo
Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...
(Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
) and other locations.
Critical Software supports customers across several markets including Aerospace, Defence, Manufacturing, Telecom, Government, Finance and Energy with core competences that cover Embedded
Embedded
- In science :* In mathematics, embedding is one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance** Graph embedding* In computing, an embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls* In computing, embedding...
and Real-Time Systems, Command & Control, Integrated Logistic Support, Security and Infrastructure, Integration, Business Intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
, RAMS
Rams
Rams, most commonly, refers to the plural of the word ram. In zoology, a ram is an uncastrated adult male sheep.Other uses of Rams include:-Acronyms:* Roseville Area Middle School, a Minnesota Middle School...
and Independent Software Verification & Validation. The company operates a quality system certified to CMMI® Level5, ISO 9001:2000 Tick-IT, ISO 15504, AQAP 2120 and EN9100.
Critical Software has participated in Earth observation related projects of the European Space Agency
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...
, such as the prevention and mitigation of forest fires, ocean monitoring and research on complex climate systems.
Products
- csSECURE delivers the data-centric solution for information protection. Protection is enforced on the data instead of on the systems, thus being effective even when there is unintended access. csSECURE allows authorised users to allocate any file or emailEmailElectronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
created or accessed a security classification. Based on the information security classification and the security clearance given to the user, he can open, edit, print, copy and/or paste the classifiedClassifiedClassified may refer to:*Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people*Classified advertising*Classified , rapper from Halifax, Nova Scotia...
and encrypted information container (files, emailEmailElectronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
, etc). To know more about this Product, go to csSECURE webpage.
- csWMPI is a middlewareMiddlewareMiddleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
for High Performance Computing capable of harnessing the power of workstationWorkstationA workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems...
clusters to execute highly demanding business or scientific applications with a low price/performance ratio. csWMPI II is widely used in industrial applications such as Computational Fluid DynamicsComputational fluid dynamicsComputational fluid dynamics, usually abbreviated as CFD, is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with...
(CFDCFDCFD may refer to:Science and computing* Computational fluid dynamics, a branch of fluid dynamics* Counterfactual definiteness, the ability, quantum mechanics, to consider results of unperformed measurements* Cfengine Daemon, the process that runs Cfengine...
) and Finite Element Analysis (FEAFEAFea was the smallest unit of land a fief could own under the feudal system.-Acronyms and abbreviations:FEA is an acronym or abbreviation for:...
) and in academia for research and development programmes and educational purposes. Is was the first fully implementation of the MPI-2 standard written specifically for MS Windows. It supports heterogeneous clusters of Windows and LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
nodesNode (networking)In communication networks, a node is a connection point, either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint . The definition of a node depends on the network and protocol layer referred to...
and is free to download and evaluate. To know more about this Product, go to csWMPI webpage
- csXCEPTION is used by space agencies around the world to test systems in exceptional field situations and worst failure scenarios. In critical sectors, new applications and systems must be intensively tested before deployment to guarantee that the system and built-in fault-tolerance mechanisms are working as expected. Ensuring the system responds appropriately to unusual or exceptional events is a problem that requires something more than traditional testing. Fault Injection is the solution and csXCEPTION performs like no other program. To know more about this Product, go to csXCEPTION webpage
Critical Links
Critical LinksCritical Links
Critical Links is a provider of networking and communications equipment for use in the small and medium enterprise IT/Communications infrastructure and for schools with their school 2.0 platform known as the Education Appliance , which deploys and manages Classmate PCs at schools, and has other...
is a spin-off company of Critical Software. It is the developer of edgeBOX, which provides data communication services such as VoIP, VPN or Wifi
WIFI
WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting...
to Small and Medium Sized Businesses.
Critical Manufacturing
Critical ManufacturingCritical Manufacturing
Critical Manufacturing is a spin-off company of Critical Software. It was founded in 2009 and it's focused on providing automation and manufacturing software for high-tech industries, such as Photovoltaic, Electronics and Semiconductors...
is a company of Critical Software founded in 2009 and focused on providing automation and manufacturing software for high-tech industries.
Critical Materials
Critical Materials is a company of Critical Software founded in 2009 and focused in the development of solutions and products in the field of advanced materials for critical applications. Critical Material's PRODDIA™ is an innovative structural health monitoring and management system for the Aeronautics & Energy Industries.Critical Health
Critical Health is a spin-off of Critical Software encompassing all the healthcare activities that were being developed since 2006. Critical Software is a successful IT services company specialized in real-time systems for defense, aerospace and telecommunications with solid reputation for software reliability (CMMI-5, ISO9001, Spice). The new company represents a strong commitment from Critical Software to all its customers and partners in the Healthcare sector.External links
- Official site
- Critical Software S.A., BusinessWeekBusinessWeekBloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
- Achievements Small & Medium Sized Enterprises, European Space AgencyEuropean Space AgencyThe European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...
- Critical Software (Portugal), LAAS - Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, CNRS