"Again and again Eclipse inspires me through the enormous economical potential that this professional open source consortium provides for it's members..."
R. Seibt, CEO of the Linux Business Campus, former CEO / board member at IBM, United Interned, SuSE, Novell

Click to see how to create your custom Eclipse Enterprise distribution
The "Industrialization" of the software industry is getting closer through open source and ongoing technological innovation. The industrial production of software is not aiming at producing unique copies anymore, but at standardized, automated production in division of labor. Artifacts get configured in Components and reused, the vertical integration gets reduced.
Industrialized processes of production promise a much lower time-to-market, a reduction in cost of goods, higher product quality, better portfolio scalability and the possibility for "build to order"-strategies. One example is the hardware manufacturer Dell, who rose to be among the best 100 companies worldwide after introducing their build to order strategy. Admittedly only few established software platforms have the potential to enable the industrialized production. New challenges are arising concerning processes and automation of assembly lines.
Eclipse was designed from beginning to enable extensibility through components and allow the integration of third-party components (e.g. tools, chat and telephone clients) from different vendors. The industry standard OSGI is used as component model. This Model has already been in use for several years in the fabrication of commercial products. The changed process and business models that comes along with an industrialized production are approved and professionalized.
Through the consequent use of Eclipse and an implementation of a professional manufacturing process, your company can achieve higher software quality and more re-use. The "assembly line" as well as tools for recording quality can be delivered by us. If you are already using Eclipse technology, a quality-workshop can provide useful information for boosting your platform.
Innoopract is a specialist for the strategic and technical conversion of Eclipse strategies. If you are interested in more details about the potential of industrial software production we will be glad to send you more information.