Products and Services

Subscription Services
	Maintenance & Support Web Subscription Individual Initial Subscription €240 Annual renewal €144 Provides individuals with access to a secure section of the web site that provides exclusive information and special offers to help with planning and managing maintenance and support services. Includes free access to all Special Analysis Reports and Charts currently available for Maintenance & Support.
	Development & Enhancement Web Subscription Individual Initial Subscription €400 Annual renewal €240 Provides individuals with access to a secure section of the web site that provides services, products and special offers exclusive to subscribers. Includes free access to your choice of four ISBSG Analysis Reports and exclusive access to the Early Estimate Checker Tool and Reality Check tool.
	Combined Web Subscription Initial Subscription €512 Annual renewal €307 Receive all the benefits of both a Maintenance & Support Subscription as well as Development & Enhancement Subscription, for one great price. Exclusive services, products and special offers only for subscribers.
Books and White Papers
	Software Industry Performance (SIP) Report Format: White paper Price: €49.95 (single copy for individual use) The Software Industry Performance (SIP) Report looks at 20 years of software project history. Has the industry improved? The news is mixed, for productivity and speed of delivery it looks bad; but quality, estimating and delivering on time have all improved. The SIP report provides a view of the industry’s progress over 20 years and it also provides facts and figures that you can compare your performance against. How do you compare? Find out with the SIP report.
	Special Analysis Reports Format: White paper Price: €49.95 each report The ISBSG regularly releases special analyses reports offering valuable information to CEOs, IT Managers, Project Managers, Maintenance & Support management personnel, QA personnel and practitioners. Each special report provides knowledge to improve planning and management of IT projects.
	The Benchmark 10 - Project Planning edition Format: Book (PDF via email) €90 EUR An essential reference book for all Chief Information Officers, IT Managers, Project Managers and Team Leaders, offering valuable assistance in the planning, management and benchmarking of development and enhancement software projects
	Practical Software Project Estimation 3rd edition Format: Book €56 EUR This new, hardback (McGraw-Hill) edition explains how to accurately forecast the size, cost, and schedule of software projects. Get expert advice on generating accurate estimates, minimizing risks, and planning and managing projects. Valuable appendices provide estimation equations, delivery rate tables, and the ISBSG Repository demographics.
Industry Data
	Development & Enhancement Industry Data Purchase portal credits and use them as required (similar to Skype). Only pay for the data you want Search, filter, view and analyse industry data through the innovative, online ISBSG Data Portal and OLAP data analysis tool. With close to 6,000 Development projects including IFPUG, FiSMA, COSMIC, NESMA data sets, the Data Portal provides you with the industry data you need for making solid software decisions about software development practices and their results.
	Maintenance & Support Industry Data Format: ZIP file €475 EUR single user license (until 21 Oct 2012) M&S repository data (1,150+ applications) plus a special analysis report of the data and a paper of suggested derived metrics for M&S managers
	Corporate Data Subscription €5,200 EUR up to 5 users Receive complete ISBSG data from both the Development & Enhancement (5,500+ projects) and Maintenance & Support (490+ applications) repositories, as well as 5,000 credits to search, filter, view and anlayse industry data using the online ISBSG Data Portal and OLAP data analysis tool. Plus all the benefits offered in the D&E and M&S Web Subscriptions (refer above) for the stated number of users, and ongoing email support. Email admin@isbsg.org for a copy of the license agreeement before subscribing.
Tools
	Comparative Estimating Tool Format: ZIP file €400 EUR single user license An easy-to-use tool that is ideal for early project lifecycle estimation or for basic project benchmarking.
	Early Estimate Checker Tool Format: ZIP file Available free with an ISBSG Web Subscription Exclusively available to ISBSG Web Subscribers, this easy-to-use tool quickly generates estimates of the work effort and elapsed time (duration) required to carry out and complete a software development project, plus project delivery rate and speed of delivery.
	Reality Check Tool Exclusively available to ISBSG Web Subscribers Exclusively available to ISBSG Web Subscribers, this valuable online tool provides a quick and low cost method which Project Boards can use to check that, prior to project approval, the development effort, cost and duration expectations of the project plan are realistic.
Academic
	Research Application €120 EUR Available only for approved Research Applications (for more information visit Academic)
	University Software Estimation Training Kit €100 EUR Available only for approved applications (for more information visit the Academic section of this website)