CMstat History

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The history of CMstat includes being founded in 1989 with the mission of providing the first Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software for Hardware Configuration Management (CM) & Contract Deliverables CDRL Data Management (DM) to the Aerospace & Defense industry.

Prior to CMstat, CM software was limited to running only on mainframe computers. CMstat developed the first COTS CM software product, also known as CMstat, to support client-server IT architectures. Over the years, the functionality of CMstat continued to expand to serve its rapidly growing customer base.

Throughout CMstat’s history its employees have been active in numerous professional groups, industry associations and standard-setting organizations. As example, CMstat personnel contributed to writing Mil-Std-973 which was the precursor to EIA 649-B Configuration Management Standard.

More recently CMstat earned compliance with the NIST 800-171 standard that specifies security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of controlled unclassified information (CUI) governed by the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) .

CMstat is employee owned with a management team that acquired the company in 2002 from the original founders and investors. A new company, TPT Technologies, Inc. was formed in Nevada to purchase the assets of the CMstat Corporation. Today TPT Technologies, Inc. conducts business as CMstat with offices located in Nevada, Oregon, and Virginia.

The current owners and employees have invested further to take CMstat software products to ever increasing levels of functionality, performance, deployability, usability, and affordability. Employee ownership has allowed the company to remain hyper-focused on meeting the exacting needs of targeted industries for CM and DM applications. They are proud to have accomplished this as a relatively small ISV without the pressure of outside investors driving the company to perpetually chase different or larger markets than those which benefit its current customers.

The original CMstat software application, which the company first became well known and respected for, was rewritten and renamed as PDMPlus. Recently, CMstat announced the general availability of its next generation Product Data and Asset Configuration Management software product, EPOCH CM.

More recently, the EPOCH DM product was developed and released as the first EIA-859 compliant web-native Contract Deliverables Management CDRL application to support not only the Aerospace & Defense industry, but any industry whose product development and delivery is specified by contract agencies or regulated by government bodies.

Today, CMstat provides rapidly deployable and instantly affordable Product Data Management (PDM), Configuration Management (CM), Asset Lifecycle Configuration Management (ALCM or ACM), and CDRL Contract Deliverables Data Management (CDDM and DM) software and consulting services.

CMstat’s current product portfolio includes EPOCH CM, PDMPlus CM, and EPOCH DM. These CMstat solutions are used by OEMs and their supply chain and service partners in high-tech industries including aviation, aerospace & defense, transportation, marine, naval, and industrial machinery among others.

Learn more in these two blog posts about “The History of Configuration Management” and “The Future of Configuration Management”.