The German Aerospace Industries Association (Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie e.V. - BDLI) represent the interests of an industrial sector, which owing to international technology leadership and worldwide success has become a significant driver of economic growth in Germany.

CMPIC is the Configuration Management Process Improvement Center. The CMPIC mission is to provide high quality, cost-effective and up-to-date configuration management training, certification and consulting.

Serena is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and more than 800 employees. Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Serena Business Mashups can be used to automate common, everyday processes; they are visual and do not require coding. Serena also enables IT executives to gain visibility into their projects, resources and costs – CIOs should have access to the same quality of information about IT as the CFO has about Finance.

The “Association for Configuration and Data Management” based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, is an independent, charitable organisation which represents the principles of CM and DM.

As the principles of CM and DM are some of usb's main competence areas, the company contributes constructively to the further development of these principles.

ICP stands for “Industry Competence Partners”. In February 2006 Agile introduced a new partner strategy which contributes to the optimization of customer support in the manufacturing industry. With a lot of Agile specialists and a longtime experience within the PLM environment, the companies Aspectis GmbH und Dr. Maier CSS GmbH & Co KG formed ICP solution. ICP solution is your one-stop-shop for all questions concerning Agile. usb is privileged partner of ICP solution.