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Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study

Technical Report
This 2002 case study outlines the efforts of Salion, Inc., an enterprise software company providing Revenue Acquisition Management solutions tailored to the unique needs of automotive suppliers.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.1184/R1/6583556.v1

Abstract

This report is another in a series of Software Engineering Institute (SEI) 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.

Cite This Technical Report

Clements, P., & Northrop, L. (2002, November 1). Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038). Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6583556.v1.

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title={Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study},
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Clements, Paul, and Linda Northrop. "Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study." (CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, November 1, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6583556.v1.

P. Clements, and L. Northrop, "Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038, 1-Nov-2002 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6583556.v1. [Accessed: 13-Dec-2024].

Clements, Paul, and Linda Northrop. "Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Nov. 2002. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6583556.v1. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

Clements, Paul; & Northrop, Linda. Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study. CMU/SEI-2002-TR-038. Software Engineering Institute. 2002. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6583556.v1