Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study

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1. agency use only (leave blank)		2. report date November 2002	3. report type and dates covered Final
4. title and subtitle Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study			5. funding numbers C — F19628-00-C-0003
6. author(s) Paul C. Clements & Linda M. Northrop
7. performing organization name(s) and address(es) Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213			8. performing organization report number CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038
9. sponsoring/monitoring agency name(s) and address(es) HQ ESC/XPK 5 Eglin Street Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116			10. sponsoring/monitoring agency report number ESC-TR-2002-038
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13. abstract (maximum 200 words) This report is another in a series of Software Engineering Institute (SEI^SM) case studies of organizations that have adopted the software product line approach for developing systems. It details the story of Salion, Inc., an enterprise software company providing Revenue Acquisition Management solutions tailored to the unique needs of automotive suppliers. Salion's solutions enable suppliers to organize and manage their disparate customer-interfacing activities as one coordinated business process, resulting in higher revenues, profit margins, and customer satisfaction. This case study is unique in that Salion did not have substantial experience in its application area, although its key designers and strategists were knowledgeable about related domains. Salion pursued a reactive approach to its product line that let it respond flexibly to spontaneous business opportunities and that significantly lowered the cost of adopting the product line paradigm to its software system development. This case study describes relevant dimensions of Salion's context, how it approached several product line practice areas that were key to its strategy, the benefits gained through its product line, lessons learned, and the major thematic aspects of the Salion story. SM SEI is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University.
14. subject terms software product lines, product line practice, product line practice framework, product line case study			15. number of pages 50
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[Title Page] [Abstract] [Acknowledgments] [1 Introduction] [2 Background] [3 How Salion Builds Its Software Product Line] [4 Payoffs and Benefits] [5 Conclusions and Lessons Learned] [6 Conclusions] [7 For Further Reading] [References] [DTIC Page] [PDF file]