The Montages founders draw from decades of experience in both financial markets and high tech to apply the mature and managed processes of wealth management and investment banking to innovation management.

Montages applies newest innovations in software modeling directly to the business problem of managing innovations. In this setup, Montages own investments in their open-source framework XOCL has direct positive feedback effects on its business capability and maturity to support other companies innovations based on major mainstream software frameworks such as EMF, GMF, or OCL. These frameworks form the base components of XOCL itself, leading to a self accelerating cycle of operational excellence in innovation investment services.

Based on this self accelerating cycle of innovation, Montages slowly expands its offering from Open Source sponsorings to patent investment management and research partnership institutionalization, two areas Montages has built experience over the last 10 years.

Montages productizes its own experience in analysing business problems and managing innovation in the product

    Montages Business Engineer

which enables the business analyst with engineering background to capture business reality and tackle the implied complexity of this reality. This product exists in two versions, one based on MS Excel and one based on Eclipse Modeling Framework. The plan of Montages is to let the two product lines converge to a full featured tool for general business analysis, built as a thin layer over commonly available infrastructure, such as MS Office and Eclipse Modeling Framework.

Montages Business Engineer is used internally at Montages to manage our business operation model, and in Montages consulting projects, in order to deliver more in less time, while getting the client's business domain under control.