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Critical Software competitive strengths lie in a combination of: Software Quality, Technology Pioneering and Innovation, Independency, Flexibility, Global Market Focus, and Value for Money.
Quality is pre-requisite in the more mature markets and the only way to assure a systematic and structure way of performing software development projects is to have in place a continuous improvement methodology. The focus on Software Quality has driven a continuous improvement of our Software Development Process, which has allowed us to reach a level of singular maturity, and to certify our Quality Management System (QMS) in accordance with the most demanding worldwide standards.
Technology Pioneering and Innovation drives a continuous research and development effort that generates new products and technologies for the worldwide markets. Critical makes a significant investment in R&D (around 12% of our revenues yearly) and works in close partnership with R&D institutions around the globe. By using innovative and pioneering technologies, we add value in the efficient delivery of solutions to our customers, and differentiate from competition.
The fact that we are, as a business, Independent from large financial and industrial groups and from large software vendors puts us in a unique position to best serve our customers. Being vendor-independent, enables us to accurately select and recommend the most suitable and cost-effective third-party technologies to each customer specific requirements. While proud of our independence, Critical has a strong partnership culture and teams up with trustable partners worldwide in complementary areas thus achieving critical mass and therefore benefiting the customers.
From offices in Coimbra, Porto and Lisbon in Portugal, San Jose in the USA, Southampton in the UK and Bucharest in Romania, our Global Market Focus and multinational culture have taken us to penetrate in markets around the globe, enabled us to adapt to the most demanding contexts and made it possible to better understand customer needs and business requirements. Since the very beginning Critical has been able to compete in the more mature markets, overthrowing entry barriers and consolidating its presence by excelling in a costumer focus approach to the business.
Our Flexibility and Agility, as a young knowledge-intensive SME, enable us to quickly respond to our customers' rapidly changing business environments. Critical’s core competences cover a wide range of expertise - Enterprise Application Integration, Embedded and Real-Time, Command & Control, Security and Infrastructure, Database, High Performing Computing, Verification, Validation & RAMS - that are flexibly used in order to better address customer requirements and engineering solutions for multidisciplinary projects profile.
Finally, we deliver Value-for-Money as measurable business results produced by dependable, innovative, and cost-effective IT solutions and technologies.
More than enumerating our strengths, we believe in our customers and case studies as they talk for themselves and demonstrate Critical Software’s capability of ensuring success in the most demanding engineering projects. Take a look at our Case Studies across several sectors for more details.
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