Participate in our global Altran study, entitled:
Costs and benefits of model-based development of embedded software systems in automobiles

The amount of software, and the resulting various new individual topics in the automotive industry are continually rising. In the past few years, software has developed into an innovation driver in the automotive industry.

The continually rising complexity of these individual systems is seen as a core problem in maintaining a sufficiently high degree of reliability in software systems. Within the context of the study to be carried out by Altran Technologies in co-operation with the TU Munich, chair of software and systems of Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Broy, we will focus on three key areas of this thematic complex:

• The status quo, as well as the current degree of saturation of model-based software development
• a cost-benefit analysis of model-based software development, as well as
• a prospective outlook on the further potential of model-based software development

The interview results of this study will be consolidated. Important insights will be derived from the overview, which can provide impulses for your individual development efforts.

Information about the questionnaire, and contact details:
Based on our experience, you will require approx. 75 - 90 minutes to complete the questionnaire. The survey will run until the end of March 2010. The majority of questions will offer you defined answers. The questionnaire is formatted as an editable PDF, which you can fill out on-screen. You can save your answers at any time, by pressing the "ctrl"+"s" key combination. This allows you to complete the questionnaire in stages, if you wish.

We recommend that you make use of our offer of a telephone interview, so that we can facilitate you in completing the questionnaire. If you wish to arrange a telephone interview, please contact me by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or by telephone, at: + 049 (0) 89 25 54 710.

At the following links: Eng_Altran-Study_MBSE.pdf, Eng_Altran_Study_MBSE_Questionaire.pdf, you can download both the questionnaire, and the information material concerning the study. The questionnaire and information material are also available to download under the "Downloads" menu selection.