Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) is an Austrian research and technology organization, funded in 1999 by several institutes of the Johannes Kepler University, Linz. Its primary focus is on applied research in the fields of data and software science. In projects with partner companies, state-of-the-art research results are applied to practical industrial projects to increase and maintain their competitiveness. SCCH strives toward leadership in the fields of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) and especially supports its (industrial) partners on their transition from contemporary (software) systems to AI-based cyber-physical systems (CPS). Specifically,

• SCCH is involved in high-value software-based services: predictive maintenance in industry, predictive behavioural analytics in surveillance, predictive analytics in personalised healthcare, and predictive software analytics for software quality assurance;
• SCCH is concerned with the quality of such services, i.e. the quality of the underlying AI and data-driven models and the software that drives these services;
• SCCH's innovation strategy aims to unlock the value in software artefacts and data, e.g. by preserving privacy in collaborative AI. SCCH's mission is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI technologies and the industrial requirements of an engineering discipline by providing software engineering technologies for AI-based software systems and vice versa, in close cooperation with its partners from academia and industry.