Wipro receives Automotive SPICE Organisational Maturity Level 5 Certification  

BANGALORE: Wipro

Technologies today announced that its automotive group has achieved

Automotive SPICE Organisational Maturity Level 5 certification under the

PATHFINDER interim assessment and certification scheme for process capability

and organisational maturity.






Wipro Technologies automotive Group is the first organisation in the world to
achieve Maturity Level 5 and is the first organisation to achieve certification

under the PATHFINDER scheme, claims company.






The Automotive SPICE initiative includes car manufacturers such as AUDI AG,BMW
Group, DaimlerChrysler AG, Fiat Auto S.p.A., Ford Werke GmbH, Jaguar, Land

Rover, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Volkswagen AG and Volvo Car Corporation.






A joint assessment team from Impronova AB (Sweden) and KPMG (India) performed
the PATHFINDER assessment.






”We went through rigorous review and analysis of Wipro's automotive software
methodology and we are pleased to award the AutomotiveSPICE Level 5

certification to Wipro. We are sure that this certification coupled with Wipro¹s

stringent quality standards will be of great value to car manufacturers and the

tier 1 automotive suppliers in meeting the challenge of developing embedded

software” said, Alec Dorling, Automotive SPICE assessor, Impronova, Sweden.






The scope of certification includes the design, development, conversion/porting,
maintenance and testing of software systems in the automotive domain.






Automotive SPICE has developed a common framework for the assessment of
suppliers in the Automotive Industry through the publication of the Automotive

SPICE Process Assessment Model and Process Reference Model.






Recently Wipro also became an associate member of the prestigious AUTOSAR
(Automotive Open System Architecture) partnership. The AUTOSAR standard serves

as a platform upon which future vehicle applications will be implemented and

will also serve to minimize the current barriers between functional domains.






Wipro's automotive solutions group provides solutions focused on customer
experience management, collaboration enhancement and comprehensive enterprise IT

management for Wipro's automotive clients.






Wipro is also a member of the automotive industry focused bodies like STAR
(Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail), OESA (Original Equipment

Suppliers Association) and AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group).






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