Siemens Networks Accelerates Software Development with Coverity Prevent Source Code Analysis
Technology giant selects Coverity Prevent to speed delivery and reduce maintenance costs of next generation telecommunications platform

SAN FRANCISCO and Embedded World in Nuernberg, Germany, February 13, 2007 – Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution, today announced that Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG has deployed Coverity Prevent to identify critical software defects and lower software maintenance costs of their network products. Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG chose Coverity Prevent for use in the development of their Next Generation Telecommunication Architecture (NGTA) platform that will serve as the basis for future telecommunications network elements.

"After an extensive evaluation of a variety of available static analysis tools, we determined that Coverity would provide the highest return on investment due to their leading-edge technology that combines the most sophisticated analysis with the easiest configurability," said Robert Hoffman, head of NGTA platform software development(c) for Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG. "Coverity pinpoints critical defects in a way that ensures our developers can quickly understand the problem and repair the defect effectively. Coverity's low false positive rate was another major factor in our selection criteria as we did not want to introduce a tool that would frustrate our distributed multi-national development teams who need to collaborate on such a large project."

Key benefits for Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG include:

• Reduction in time finding and fixing software defects;
• Reduction in number of software patches distributed each year;
• Accelerated delivery of a sophisticated telecommunications software platform.

Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG deployed Coverity Prevent into their existing development environment for the NGTA-Platform easily with only minimal configuration required. The quick deployment led to an immediate improvement in productivity and product quality. Hoffman added, "Use of Coverity's technology within Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG enhances our ability to deliver robust systems."

About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), maker of the most advanced source code analysis solution, is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity's groundbreaking technology removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software by automatically finding critical software defects and security vulnerabilities as the software is written. More than 100 leading companies choose Coverity because it scales to tens of millions of lines of code, has the lowest false positive rate and provides 100 percent path coverage. Companies like Juniper Networks, Symantec/VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, Palm and Wind River work with Coverity's tools to eliminate security and quality defects from their mission-critical code and make their products Coverity Clean.

Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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