The software component of products continues to increase and is becoming crucial in key areas such as signal processing, information processing and human-system interfaces. The robustness of the software architecture is dependent on effective processes, supported by efficient specialist development workshops and tools. Productivity and quality depend on the re-use of modular elements. Innovation calls for continuous training of teams and the acquisition of new technical skills such as object-oriented design and development, web-based technologies, distributed systems, real time and operating environments.
The "Internet economy" is generating new types of web-based B2B activities (e-business, e-security, etc.) involving the design, production and sale of products and technical services that allow the Group's customers to conduct and develop their business across IT networks, linking them, as suppliers of goods and services themselves, to their own customers quickly and securely.