SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Augmentum(TM), a leading service provider of value-added software development, today announced it is a new member in the ARM(R) Connected Community, the industry's largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Augmentum will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative services that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered(R) products to market faster.
"We are honored to join the ARM Connected Community. The Augmentum team has a deep understanding of the ARM architecture and we are well suited to support the ARM design and vision in our testing and development processes," said Wayne Hom, CTO of Augmentum. "Augmentum will bring its expertise in the ARM architecture to the broad partner community, allowing all parties involved to successfully expand reach in targeted markets."
Augmentum is a leading provider of offshore outsourcing for software products and IT application development, with a focused ARM embedded software competency center. The product development services include support for mobile devices, consumer electronics, and storage systems with specific ARM services consisting of software development and test covering firmware, device drivers, board support packages, operating systems, middleware and applications. Platform coverage includes Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Linux, Palm OS, and BREW.
The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions. Visitors to the ARM Connected Community have the ability to contact members directly through the website.
"The Connected Community is all about companies working together to provide the most complete solutions in the shortest possible time. By joining the Community, which now comprises more than 400 companies, Augmentum increases the large portfolio of skills, and services that are centered around the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide," said Ian Thornton, director of Solutions Marketing for ARM.
For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit http://www.arm.com/community.
About Augmentum
Augmentum provides outsourcing leadership for innovation. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to 1,250 people in China out of 1,300 worldwide in four years since its founding. Augmentum was awarded Founding Member of the Community of Global Growth Companies, World Economic Forum 2007, Global Services 100 in 2007 and Risk Management winner at the China Outsourcing Summit in 2006 and is a Red Herring 100 company. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221 x104.
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