The focus of the subprogramme of Software Systems is in methods for producing large and complex software in a systematic way. The development of this kind of software requires technical skills; other focuses include group and project work, disciplined high-quality development processes, documentation, and reuse. Students graduating from this subprogramme are typically appointed technical software or database system experts or software development project managers. In the advanced module of the subprogramme, students can specialize in software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, and database systems. The goal of the software-engineering education is to train students in processes needed in producing large high-quality software. The goal of the education in service-oriented software engineering is to train experts at producing and managing inter-organizational service networks or at development of the software tools needed in these tasks. The goal of the database-systems education is to train experts at software systems that make use of database systems.

Contact person: Jukka Paakki