The realization of the AUTOSAR industry standard will provide significant benefits for OEMs, leading suppliers as well as for tool providers and new market entrants.

Benefits for OEM:

• Establish development distribution among suppliers
• Compete on innovative functions with increased design flexibility
• Simplify software and system integration
• Reduce overall software development costs

Benefits for supplier:

• Reduce version proliferation
• Reuse software modules across OEMs
• Increase efficiency of application development
• Invent new business models

Benefits for tool provider:

• Interface with development processes
• Embed tools into an overall tool environment

Benefits for new market entrant:

• Enable new business models by means of standardized interfaces