AZ Global Research and Engineering Partnership Program Program description Program benefits Software delivery options Joining the program Costs Program Description The Partnership program of CosmoVision (Canada) was introduced on March 2, 2015. It is designed to let the start-up technology companies to start using the VisCMSE design suite and start building their applications with most of the payments differed by 12-24 months. The company that qualifies for the program can receive the trial software package for free, and will be requested to pay maintenance fee only after 2-week trial expires. Program benefits Joining the Partnership Program lets the customer to: Start developing the integration software in top-down approach not waiting until the bulk of the financing will arrive. Demonstrate the customers and investors the "system in action" rather than keep explaining how it might work in the future: "seeing is believing". Test the system's concept, configuration, and operateability using before the actual hardware is deployed. Drastically accelerate the path from design to operations. Start using high quality low maintenance system integration software much earlier and for much lower cost, than competitors can ever expect. Cut the final training and development cost. Software delivery options The software is delivered as 100MB downloadable archive file, that includes actual VisCMSE, documentation, Java-2 (JDK-1.4.2) distribution, some inexpensive third-party shareware packages, software key, and installer. Software key is automatically updated over the Internet every 4-6 weeks through the period of partnership. Customer may choose to pay for the third party software directly to its developers, or to disable additional services. CosmoVision (Canada) provides e-mail and (in some cases) live chat technical support through the period of partnership. CosmoVision (Canada) can also develop the system according to the customer's specifications. Joining the Program VisCMSE is control systems software. This makes us to restrict its distribution to some countries, and to put in place certain basic procedures for the software distribution. Basically, we need to have on the record minimal paperwork that will justify that it will not be used to assist in development of WMD and its delivery systems by certain nations. In this content minimal really stands for minimal. Please contact our marketing department to join the program. Program costs and fees During the period of partnership the customer is required to pay only maintenance and technical support fees. The fee calculation is defined by complexity of the system, which defines the expenses that AZ Global Research and Engineering will endure to support the customer. We assume that small system of ten objects will not require more than three hours of work of our engineer per week. The cost of development of the system by AZ Global Research and Engineering depends on complexity of the system. The cost may be estimated using the estimated one working day per object of the system, including data simulators. These costs does not include the cost of the software license, which is deferred towards the end of the partnership period.