Introduction The intelligent edge presents a wide variety ofnew opportunities and challenges for virtuallyevery industry. Wind River®has been providingadvice, tools, and consulting services to themakers of embedded systems for decades.No other organization has a comparable levelof depth and breadth in embedded design. Ourprofessional services organization can helpyou define new opportunities, overcome designchallenges, and quickly leverage these emergingtechnologies into paradigm-breaking productsand solutions. Eight in 10 industry leaders wantintelligent systems success infive years’ time. The time to startblueprinting is now. Embedded systems are playing new roles in what the industry hasdubbed “the intelligent edge” — devices built on open standards andoperating far outside traditional environments. The intelligent edgecreates opportunities as well as challenges. Embedded system makersacross multiple industries will have to adapt to changes in customerexpectations. The Wind River Professional Services organization hasthe experience to help you navigate this potentially challenging techno-logical shift. We have been providing advice, tools, and consulting services tomakers of embedded systems for decades. We work with embeddedsystems engineering teams on a variety of missions, includingproduct-focused projects, operations and execution, lifecycle man-agement, board support packages (BSPs), and more. Our ProfessionalServices organization can help you define new opportunities andovercome design challenges. Working together, we can support you inquickly leveraging these emerging technologies into paradigm-breakingproducts and solutions. Wind River and Professional Services Overview Wind River has been a leader in the embedded systems software field forover 35 years. Our technology powers generation after generation of thesafest, most secure devices, built by the largest companies around theworld. When you set out to build something that must work, you turn to us. connected devices will be inoperation by 2025, generating 80zettabytes of data (IDC, 2019).An estimated41billion+ We augment our product offerings with professional services. The WindRiver Professional Services team is comprised of experts in the use ofour own product portfolio as well as in both project management andembedded software engineering. We have a long track record of creating custom solutions to solve ourcustomers’ problems by integrating our products with third-party, open-source custom software and hardware. We value deep collaboration,and our role as trusted advisor and partner has proven itself in manycustomer success stories over the years. How the Intelligent Edge Is Impacting Embedded Systems The phrase “intelligent edge” has become overused, often obscuring thesimplicity and importance of the paradigm it represents. While it variesgreatly in implementation, the intelligent edge is about pushing comput-ing and data management to the periphery of traditional networks andarchitectures. The compute (intelligence) is no longer in the data center.It’s at the edge, often way outside the normal spaces where you wouldtraditionally expect to find it. In practical terms, moving the edge also usually means migrating awayfrom proprietary systems. Building for the intelligent edge involves theuse of standards-based, open, and interoperable technologies. It mayalso imply process automation. The intelligent edge affects the core design and functioning of embed-ded systems. To work effectively at the intelligent edge, an embeddedsystem must be able to connect more broadly than it did in earliergenerations. It has to interact with new types of compute and networks.These include cloud service providers — with a host of enhanced securi-ty features that compensate for the increasing openness of the edge. How Wind River ProfessionalServices Partners withYou at the Edge Our Professional Services organization worksside by side with your team. We engage for the fulllifecycle. From initial discovery through solutiondevelopment and long-term support, we partnerwith you to craft solutions that meet the criteria ofthe intelligent edge. Wind River Professional Serviceshas been appraised at CMMI Level3, the highest form of third-partyvalidation for a company’s workand processes. Our Process and Approach If there were one word that could capture the essence of our diverse,deep professional services program, it would be “balance.” Our approachis all about finding the right balance between consulting and mentoring,between the level of detail in requirements and the expected pace of exe-cution and, of course, budget. Part of our strength lies in the assignmentof a highly experienced single point of contact for the project, from startto finish. We focus on aligning requirements with the design process, implemen-tation, and testing. Our teams are rated CMMI-DEV 3. CMMI (CapabilityMaturity Model Integration) is a program for process level improveme