The “SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications”, started in 2009, is renewed up to the 2019, reaching 10 years of collaboration.
The «SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications» is an Research & Development initiative developed by the UMU (University of Murcia) and SAES (Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina), being funded by SAES. Those entities are collaborating for more than 10 years, since 2006 when they started to develop the together works. In 2009, the Chair was created and thus it strengthened the Research and Development activities.
It have been signed its fifth biennial renewal (for the period 2017-2019) in a public ceremony in the university of Murcia chaired by the Rector Dr. D. José Orihuela Calatayud and de General Director of .SAES, Sr. D. Antonio Cordero.
In-house technology
The SAES general director has highlighted the innovation as one of the foundation of the company that “invest in own Research and Development about the 10% of its budget”. Also, SAES collaborates with several Universities and participate in international and national R&D projects. In this context, the SAES Chair allows to SAES and the UMU to develop their knowledge in free software and real-time-critical software applications. This is a capital issue for a company, which possess a specialized software department, one of the base of the company. Thus, we can provide in-house technology without extern dependence” the SAES general director said.
The Chair, led by professors Dr. D. Diego Sevilla Ruiz and Dr. D. Gregorio Martínez Pérez, has improved the software & communication development process in areas such as the Big Data, databases NoSQL and the modeling of the automatic test software.
During the ceremony, the Rector has emphasized that on one side, this collaboration allows turning technological results into competitive advantages and productivity increase for the company and, on the other side, the university can better oriented the researches to the needs of the market and of the companies involved.