When it comes to research, products, and customer projects at Siemens, software is playing an increasingly important role. To ensure that the company benefits as much as possible from close cooperation among software specialists, experts in the Siemens sectors, and researchers, Corporate Technology took over responsibility for the Corporate Development Center in 2009. Since then, the Center, with its more than 3,000 employees and three clusters – Central Eastern Europe, India, and China – has been part of Corporate Technology.

Practically every Siemens product and every service the company provides operates on the basis of software. Many programs are tailor-made to meet special requirements. Here, Corporate Technology has internal solution providers in the form of Corporate Development Center experts. In close coordination with the Siemens sectors, these specialists develop and test software for new products and services, which they integrate into customer projects and later service or expand. This process relies on software experts at a large number of locations in Europe, India, and China, each of which focuses on its own specific areas. As a globally operating organization, the Development Center is thus able to develop solutions that are optimally tailored to customers’ local requirements. In addition, to ensure that development is closely interlocked with the company’s business interests, the Development Center’s organization also focuses on activities at each of Siemens’ Sectors.