Philips Innovative Applications

Philips Innovative Applications NV is part of the multinational Royal Philips Electronics.

Philips Innovative Applications NV is a provider of high end full featured television sets. It has development sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and India collaborating in distributed developments.

Philips Innovative Applications NV applies common software processes, based on the SEI CMM, which are essential for successful multi-site development.

Recently it has introduced the "Pixel Plus" picture improvement feature.

Pixel Plus is significant in its sophistication and unrivalled mastering of both still and motion video reproduction at the same time and for bringing "high definition" picture quality from ordinary TV signals with no need to wait for HDTV transmissions.

Projects now typically follow a multi-site development process in order to exploit core competencies of centres of excellence around the world.

The ability to manage these globally distributed development projects is a key success criterion.

Philips Innovative Applications NV is complementing process improvements in this domain with the promotion of open standards for software components for resource-constrained systems and for component repositories.