Océ needed a new approach to real-time software development that promoted software reuse and enabled development of increasingly complex embedded systems.

Because Océ adopted IBM Rational solutions for model-driven development, and software change and configuration management to build its embedded systems,Océ can now reuse more than 50 percent of its software components from project to project. They also improved communication within and across teams and conducted early hardware and software loop testing to help ensure quality.

Océ N.V. is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Océ's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives—locally and around the world.