This year, the SEI’s Licensing Program strengthened its transition efforts across international borders to support the growing market for SEI licensing, research, and education in Europe. The program played an essential role in the establishment of SEI-EuropeSM, developing new types of licensing agreements for European companies that are adopting SEI technologies internally.

At the end of the fiscal year, the Licensing Program expanded its international support by striking a brokerage agreement with the European Software Process Improvement (ESPI) Foundation. ESPI will schedule and promote SEI-authorized training in Europe, including advanced CMMI® courses delivered by the SEI and Introduction to CMMI courses delivered by SEI transition partners. There are currently nearly 50 transition partner organizations that offer CMMI training and 70 that offer SCAMPISM Lead AppraiserSM services. (For more information, see the CMMI section.)

SEI transition partners are qualified DoD and industry organizations that are authorized by the SEI to help other organizations adopt new and improved technologies—typically training courses or assessment services. Current transition partners for SEI technologies include

>	some 50 organizations sponsoring 85 CMMI instructors
>	70 organizations sponsoring 122 SCAMPI Lead Appraisers
>	27 organizations sponsoring 216 instructors for Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) courses (39 of whom are also authorized by the SEI as Team Software ProcessSM [TSPSM] Launch Coaches)

The Licensing Program also made strides in developing licensing opportunities for other SEI technologies, specifically the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis MethodSM (see the ATAMSM section), the COTS Usage Risk EvaluationSM (see the CURESM section), the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability EvaluationSM (OCTAVESM, see the Survivable Systems section), and OCTAVE-S (see the OCTAVE-S section).

The Licensing Program is the keystone of the SEI’s “Amplify” strategy (see the Director's Message for more details), working with developers, acquirers, and transition partners to promote the adoption of best practices in the systems and software engineering community.

For a list of the current Transition Partners, visit the SEI Web site.