Solution

HARMAN Software Developer Experience

Shaping the Third Automotive Revolution

Our Philosophy

Enabling Software Developers with tools for accelerated development at reduced costs

Embracing Open Source and Open Standards to manage software development and integration complexity.

Scalability to support rapid introduction of new software products.

Harman Automotive is building the necessary tooling across the entire software development cycle to enable SDV. The developer tools product portfolio will be founded on and differentiated by a philosophy of development based on Open Standards and Open Source Software components. Open and Standardized software tools will help the automotive industry eliminate incompatibilities in SDV development approaches, foster collaboration, and reduce integration complexity.

Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation’s SDV Work Group has played a significant role in developing Open Source Software components to enable the vision of a Software-Defined Vehicle. As part of this Work Group, HARMAN is building world-class in-vehicle experiences while allowing our customers to thrive in collaborative vehicle development environments. “We are thrilled to join The Eclipse Foundation’s SDV working group, which will play a key role in influencing the next generation of vehicles” – Heiko Huettel, VP Software Products.

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SOAFEE VISION

The SOAFEE VISION is to bring cloud-native development paradigm and its ubiquitous ecosystem to the highly diverse, heterogeneous compute platforms that will power the next generation of automotive and safety critical systems. As part of the SOAFEE foundation, HARMAN collaborates with other community members to develop a seamless, cloud-based architecture to accelerate the industry's evolution toward Software-Defined vehicles.

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HARMAN Ignite Store

HARMAN Ignite Store is an in-vehicle app store built on the Android Automotive Operating System. Unlike competitive platforms, OEMs retain control over the app catalog, store appearance and customer relationships..

HARMAN Ready Upgrade

HARMAN Ready Upgrade helps OEMs reduce long development cycles and high costs by providing turnkey infotainment domain controllers with a suite of software tools.

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HARMAN OTA Solutions

HARMAN OTA is the solution, enabling OEMs to implement efficient, secure and standards-compliant updates for all in-car software-driven components.