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Critical Software S.A.
Company typePrivately held
IndustryInformation Technology
Founded1998
Founder
  • João Carreira
  • (CEO)
  • Gonçalo Quadros
  • (Chairman)
  • Diamantino Costa
HeadquartersCoimbra, Portugal
Products
  • Xception
  • Beyond Logistics
  • Oversee
  • WOW
  • SMITEn
  • EyeCommand
Revenue€58M (2019)
Number of employees900+ (2019)
Websitecriticalsoftware.com

Critical Software is a Portuguese international information systems and software company, headquartered in Coimbra. The company was established in 1998, from the University of Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). The company has other offices in Porto,Lisbon (Portugal), Southampton (United Kingdom), Munich (Germany) and California (United States).

Critical Software develops systems and software services for safety, mission and business-critical applications in several markets, including aerospace, defense, automotive, railway, telecoms, finance, and energy and utilities. The company's competencies include system planning and analysis, system design and development, embedded and real-time systems, command and control systems, security and infrastructure, systems integration, business intelligence, independent software verification & validation, UxD, AI, digital transformation and smart meter testing.

Critical Software's delivery unit was the first in Portugal to be rated at CMMI Maturity Level 5. The company is one of a few dozen organizations in the world which have both waterfall and agile software development units rated at Maturity Level 5.

Critical Group

The Critical Group comprises a series of technology companies, many of which were formed from concepts originally developed within Critical Software.

  • Critical Materials develops products that provide diagnostics and prognostics for critical structural systems. The company was acquired by the original co-founders and rebranded Stratosphere S.A.
  • onCaring is a technology company that helps seniors living in long-term care across Europe, the United States, and Brazil.
  • Critical Links provides purpose-built solutions to simplify the delivery of digitized content to schools.
  • Retmarker provides software for screening and progression monitoring of retinal diseases.
  • Critical Manufacturing provides automation and manufacturing software for high-tech industries. The company was acquired by ASMPT in 2018.
  • Watchful Software provided software that kept sensitive information safe from disclosure or security breaches. Symantec acquired it in 2017.

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Notes and references

  1. lavva.pt. "Critical Software's History and Culture". criticalsoftware.com. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  2. lavva.pt. "Get in Touch with Critical Software". criticalsoftware.com. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  3. "Critical Achieves Level 5 in CMMI Quality Certification and Delivers Software that is 99,997% "Bug" Free". PRWeb. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
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