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KL Engineer and CARIAD Win “Software Innovation of the Year” at ATTI Awards 2025

We are thrilled to share that KL Engineer, together with our customer CARIAD, proudly took home the “Testing Software Innovation of the Year” at the Automotive Testing Technology International (ATTI) Awards 2025.

Stuttgart, 20.05.2025

Our solution for car software integration - The Car Update Test Cloud System (Cloud CAT), developed by CARIAD’s Integration and Testing department in cooperation with KL Engineer, has won “Testing Software Innovation of the Year” at the Automotive Testing Technology International (ATTI) Awards 2025.

The Automotive Testing Technology International Awards are a non-profit-making enterprise designed to recognize and reward the inspiring achievements of the world’s top vehicle engineering suppliers and specialists.

KL Engineer’s Digital Solution for Car Multiverse Integration Won the Automotive IT Team Award in the “Software Defined Vehicle” category

We are thrilled to share that KL Engineer, together with our customer CARIAD, proudly took home the Automotive IT Team Award in the “Software Defined Vehicle” category!

Berlin, 22.11. 2024.

KL Engineer is thrilled to share that, together with our customer CARIAD, we proudly took home the Automotive IT Team Award in the “Software Defined Vehicle” category! This incredible achievement reflects the dedication and hard work of our team and the trust and collaboration with CARIAD. Huge thanks to everyone involved—our team, users, and stakeholders—for making this milestone possible. Here’s to continuing our journey toward innovation in the automotive industry!

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Data Reuse & Scalability Management

Manage Product Variations: Visualize product variables through extensions such as a matrix and colorful real-time development status at each stage, accommodating adjustments for different markets, engine variables, or car models.
Increase Development Speed: Accelerate development cycles by reusing data and managing product variations efficiently, enabling faster time-to-market.
Reduce Complexity with Advanced Tools: Utilize advanced and ALM functionalities to manage product variations effectively, avoiding operational inefficiencies, potential errors, and increased quality assurance costs.
Enhance Portfolio Diversity: Offer a more diverse product portfolio that better meets customer demands, crucial for revenue growth in a competitive global market.

Automated Car Flashing

Automate the flashing of car software to Achieve end-to-end traceability and seamless integration from business processes to car binaries. By automating this process, we can achieve a 10 x reduction in manual weekly labor.

End-to-End Traceability: Achieve complete traceability from business processes to the final binaries on the car through the automated flashing process. This ensures all changes and configurations are documented and traceable.
Azure Integration with Artifact Storage System: Leverage the power of Azure integrated with Artifact Storage System, such as JFrog (other analog artifact storage control systems) to connect our business processes directly to car configurations. This integration facilitates a seamless flow of data and ensures accuracy in the flashing process.
Efficiency and Speed: Significantly reduce the time and effort required for car flashing. Initiate the car flashing process with a single click in the system. By automating the process, we eliminate repetitive manual tasks and accelerate the overall workflow, which leads to a a tenfold reduction in manual weekly labor.
Enhanced Accuracy: Minimize human error with automated processes that ensure precise execution of flashing tasks. This leads to more reliable and consistent results.
Centralized Data Model: Centralize the management of car configurations and flashing processes within a single platform. This simplifies oversight and enhances control over the entire integration lifecycle.

Data Reuse & Scalability Management

Optimize product line development by managing product variability and efficient data reuse. Reduce rework, shorten release cycles, and lower verification costs.

Product Management Platform: Leverage our product management platform and unique real-world experience in managing a multidimensional analysis space for all product variations.
Efficient Data Reuse: Why test the same function separately for different car models or markets? Why not leverage existing data efficiently? Save time and optimize your development process by reusing data from parallel products or projects. This approach simplifies planning and shortens the development lifecycle.

Manage Product Variations: Visualize product variables through extensions such as a matrix and colorful real-time development status at each stage, accommodating adjustments for different markets, engine variables, or car models.
Increase Development Speed: Accelerate development cycles by reusing data and managing product variations efficiently, enabling faster time-to-market.
Reduce Complexity with Advanced Tools: Utilize advanced and ALM functionalities to manage product variations effectively, avoiding operational inefficiencies, potential errors, and increased quality assurance costs.
Enhance Portfolio Diversity: Offer a more diverse product portfolio that better meets customer demands, crucial for revenue growth in a competitive global market.

Traceability and real-time Collaboration

Ensure full traceability across the entire car development lifecycle (V-Model) by connecting actual and plan status, as well as all project data from Requirements to Hardware information in one common data model. Enable real-time communication and collaboration among all teams, including Engineers, Test Managers, Configuration Management Teams and more.

Complete the full V-Model design and testing cycle: Seamlessly connect the design and testing phases, ensuring that both sides of the V-Model are fully integrated and aligned.

Security and Compliance: We adhere to industry standards such as TISAX and CDSA, ensuring the highest level of security and compliance. By using our tool, you can simplify your processes to meet standards like Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, and CMMI, making it easier to achieve and maintain compliance.
Automate routine processes: By connecting all project data into a common data model, optimization points and bottlenecks become visible. This enables the automation of routine processes such as synchronizing and eliminating duplicates, maintaining daily data quality, and keeping everyone informed through deep analytics. This reduces manual tasks and enhances overall efficiency.
Ensure synchronicity and provide full browser-based access to all project data: Effortlessly access project data from any location, ensuring that all team members are consistently updated.
Facilitate real-time communication among Engineers, Configuration and Test Management teams: By utilizing a common data model, you can maintain common business objects and ensure continuous and clear communication through shared work items, wikis, notifications, and other collaborative tools.
Comprehensive Project Management: Our solution provides a holistic view of the project, from business requirements to Software and Hardware technical implementation, facilitating better decision-making and project outcomes.

Agile Project Management

We develop and support projects from idea to release using the Scaled Agile Framework. We will help you to adapt your Agile techniques with flexible customization options and pre-configured patterns. Our team comprises certified specialists in agile methodologies, ensuring that we follow and organize our processes effectively.

Certified Specialists: Our team of certified agile specialists is using Scalable Agile Framework, ensuring that our team follows and organize processes with full transparency.
Azure DevOps Leadership: Azure DevOps leads the way in managing agile and hybrid project formats, offering templates, how-tos, and a range of additional features to streamline your workflow. And enjoy a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to manage and track project progress, even for those new to agile methodologies.
Transparency and Traceability: Achieve full transparency and traceability across all project activities, with detailed records of changes and approvals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster cross-functional collaboration with integrated tools that allow team members from different departments to work seamlessly together.
Continuous Improvement: Embrace a culture of continuous improvement with tools and processes designed to adapt and evolve with your project needs.

Trace Data Analysis

Leverage comprehensive trace data analysis to enhance system integration testing and ensure product quality. Utilize a centralized toolchain for automated analysis, transforming raw data into actionable insights. And transition to a new modern format of data-driven testing process automation using the power of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.Simple text

Visualization and Actionable Insights: Transform raw trace data into visual representations that highlight key insights and utilize AI tools for in-depth analysis. This combination of visualization and AI-driven automation helps identify and address errors early in the development process, significantly reducing the risk of issues in final production.
Centralized Data Collection: Gather measurement logs from various cars and testing fields into a unified data pool. This centralized approach ensures that all trace data is accessible for analysis, streamlining the testing process.
Scalable Analysis: Manage and scale the analysis process to accommodate varying volumes of trace data. The toolchain and centralized storage are designed to handle large datasets and complex analysis requirements.
Cross-Department Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration between departments by providing a shared platform for trace data analysis. Different teams can contribute their expertise, leading to more comprehensive and thorough testing.
Integration with Azure: Upload trace data to Azure for enhanced integration testing. The data is linked with Metadata such as Sprint, Configuration, or car number, enabling detailed and organized analysis.

Release Management

Optimize your release management with our comprehensive solution, designed to support various methodologies. Achieve traceable releases every sprint by tracking actual status and comparing it with the plan, ensuring seamless delivery.

Release Planning Transparency: Address the challenge of managing numerous software development teams and disparate systems by ensuring transparency in release planning for both software and hardware deliveries, whether internal or by partners.
Single source of truth: Ensure transparency for every software component and version delivery for each ECU, with planning and delivery managed in a single tool – providing a single source of truth. With the two-sided linking process, we synchronize the plan and actual status with the Business Objects used by responsible parties. This allows us to track both states and plan efficiently.
Enhanced Visibility: Gain enhanced visibility into the release process, enabling proactive management and swift resolution of issues. Spot potential bottlenecks before they occur through live, real-time reports on delays and workloads.
Automated Processes for Enhanced Efficiency: Boost efficiency and minimize manual efforts by automating key aspects of the release management process, such as tracking deliveries, automatically linking them to the current release, or mail notifications of test failures. Additionally, by utilizing a digital twin of a prototype car with all updated information in the system, we ensure that every aspect of the car's development is accurately reflected and up-to-date.

Test Management

Centralize and manage all testing activities, Reduce quality assurance costs and meet product quality goals. Streamline your testing activities by connecting Test Plans and Test Cases with Releases, Requirements and further Business values in the system.

Centralized Test Management: Manage all testing activities from a single platform, ensuring a holistic view of your testing processes. Create test cases and easily link them to corresponding business data objects such as Requirements, Bug Tickets, Prototype Car and Releases to maintain traceability.
Connecting Requirements and Testing (V-Model): Our primary advantage is that we seamlessly connect the worlds of requirements and testing using the V-Model. This integration ensures efficient and consistent traceability from requirements to test results.
Unified System Integration with Business Values: We integrate all relevant data into a single system by linking test plans and test cases with business values such as sprint, car status, and number. This comprehensive integration provides a clear overview and enhances the control and tracking of the entire development process.
Integration and Standardization: Integrate with existing company tools and set up the structure of test plans, suites, and test cases, including standardized installation cases for every software delivery.
Automated Bug Reporting: Automatically generate bug reports and tasks for developers based on test failures to accelerate the resolution process.
Improved Collaboration: Facilitate better collaboration among testing, development, and operations teams with integrated workflows and tools.

Configuration Management

Maintain consistency and traceability of product configurations. Manage and control configuration items and their relationships across the project lifecycle.
Integrate software and hardware configurations with business values in a unified system. Utilize the digital twin feature to accurately describe prototype cars and consistently test them within these configurations.

Manage Product Variations: Handle modifications of a master product, such as different configurations or features, throughout the entire product lifecycle. For every prototype car, there is the capability to create a Digital Twin within the system. This Digital Twin includes all linkages to tests, software/hardware information, responsible persona, the latest status updates and more.
Configuration Item Relationships: Manage and control the relationships between configuration items, ensuring that changes in one item are reflected throughout the project. This helps in maintaining consistency and avoiding conflicts. Automated pipelines ensure data synchronization and reflection of changes based on relevant connections. Additionally, responsible parties are notified via email, ensuring seamless communication and coordination.
Linked Test Car Configurations: Create a comprehensive picture of the state of the products being developed by linking the status of each test car to various configurations, including variant management and even specific parking spaces. This detailed tracking ensures all test conditions are accounted for and accurately documented.

Failure and Risk Management

Track, analyze, and document potential and reported failures. Plan and mitigate risks to enhance product safety and reliability.

Improved Safety and Reliability: Enhance product safety and reliability by proactively managing potential risks and failures throughout the development lifecycle.
Comprehensive Failure Tracking: Automatically track issues on any test failure, whether manual or automated, performed within our platform or via third-party tools, ensuring immediate issue identification for all activities.
Ensure the Resolution: Automatically assign Bug Tickets based on classifications such as Car Model, Prototype Car number, Responsible and Bug Area to streamline the resolution process.
Risk Identification: Identify potential failures, risks, and hazards, and plan and assign tasks to mitigate these risks. Reduce the risk of critical bugs going untested before being released into the field.
Advanced Reporting and Analytics: Generate detailed reports and comprehensive graphs/statistics of the status of any Business Object at any time. Customize and filter reports by various parameters, including the responsible team member, current state, testing area, and more.

Change Management

Manage and track changes effectively to understand the who, what, when, and why of any modifications. Ensure all changes are controlled and documented.

Comprehensive Change Tracking: Gain a complete understanding of who made changes, what changes were made, when they occurred, and why they were implemented, ensuring full traceability and accountability.
Enhanced Process Control: Maintain control over the change management process by ensuring that all modifications are documented and tracked, reducing the risk of unauthorized changes and improving overall project transparency.
Customization and Flexibility: Customize the change management process to fit the specific needs of your organization, ensuring that changes are managed effectively and efficiently.
Change Management as an integral part of development: Implement a ticket structure to manage changes for functions, providing a traceable overview of software and requirement changes. This is an integral part of incremental development.
Regulatory Compliance: Meet regulatory requirements and industry standards by maintaining thorough documentation and traceability of all changes, ensuring your projects remain compliant.

Requirement Management

Efficiently gather, author, approve, and manage requirements throughout the entire project lifecycle. Ensure traceability and alignment with project goals. Possibility to import all requirements from existing company systems.

Visibility and Traceability: Our system ensures all requirements are visible, traceable, and connected. Track their development based on different parameters, providing a comprehensive view of progress and dependencies.
Integration with Existing Tools: Integrate seamlessly with existing tools in your company, synchronizing with standard processes to ensure a smooth workflow.
Collaborative Editing: Requirements are visible and editable by different responsibilities, allowing for collaborative input and modifications by various stakeholders.
Instant Exposure for Review and Approval: Instantly expose all requirement specification documents to all ALM stakeholders for review, approval, or development.
Scalable Solution: Our platform is scalable to meet the needs of projects of all sizes, from small teams to large enterprises, ensuring consistent performance and reliability.

Business Analytics with Power BI

Utilize advanced analytics to visualize, predict, and manage key tasks. Create customized dashboards for data-driven decision-making in car development, leveraging our team's expertise in Power BI.

Single Centralized Data Model: Build a comprehensive suite of reports using Power BI. These reports cover all aspects of the project, from business values to actual testing data, providing a holistic view of project health.
Advanced Visualization: Harness the power of Power BI to create detailed and interactive visualizations. These visuals help in understanding complex data sets and provide a clear picture of project status and progress.
Customized Dashboards: Develop tailored dashboards that cater to specific roles and responsibilities within the team. This customization ensures that every team member has access to the most relevant data for their needs.
Real-Time Data Integration: Integrate real-time data from various sources, providing up-to-date insights and enabling timely decision-making. Track real-time project statuses, plan versus actual progress, and other critical metrics.
Data Integration: Seamlessly integrate Power BI with existing tools and processes within the company. Combine business values with technical data from testing and hardware to provide a complete view of the project. For example, track the status of prototype cars by comparing planned versus actual statuses.

Connectors and Integrators

Seamlessly integrate with popular and internal company tools and platforms to enhance workflow efficiency and reduce hidden costs associated with third-party services.

Custom Connectors: Utilize our expertise to create integrations with complementary internal or third-party solutions. Use the platform's built-in extension functionality to expand capabilities yourself and cover new business processes.
Single Source of Truth: By connecting and synchronizing with various tools, we establish a single source of truth, reducing costs and enhancing data accuracy across the board. We integrate these disparate sources into one single data model, providing a clearer picture of project status and progress.
Connectors with popular tools: Ensure all your project management, development, and testing tools work in harmony. Our cloud technologies include Azure DevOps, Azure Databricks, Azure Functions, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory. For back-end development, we use .Net Core, C#, and Node.js, while our extensions are built with TypeScript. The front-end is powered by React JS.. The front-end is powered by Power BI.
Comprehensive Data Migration and User Integration: Our integrations have enabled the seamless migration of data from various platforms already in use within projects. This capability has successfully transitioned over 5,000 users from zero into a single, unified platform.
Cost Reduction: By eliminating the need for managing multiple third-party services, our seamless integration approach reduces hidden costs and streamlines project management efforts.
Real-Time Data Synchronization: Ensure real-time synchronization of data across various tools, keeping information up-to-date and facilitating reporting and informed decision-making.

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