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ISO 9001:2008 is newly published. The revised version of the quality management system standard was released on November 14, 2008, by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 9004 is currently under review and scheduled for release in 2009.

Compared to ISO 9001:2000 the new edition contains:

• No new requirements
• Some useful clarifications to existing requirements
• Mainly editorial changes
• A few examples of increased compatibility with ISO 14001:2004

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DQS Certification has initiated its on-line CMMI Gap Assessment, Process Assessment and on-line CMMI Consulting service. Rajendra Khare, Managing Director, DQS Certification India Private Limited said that it has been observed that the cost of Assessments and Consulting is getting higher. Moreover, the cost of overheads like travel, boarding and accommodation makes it further restrictive for organizations to avail CMMI Assessment and Consulting Activity. Hence online service would contribute towards reducing the cost. Rajendra Khare said that we do hear in our industry experience that the CMMI Initiatives because of cost implications are postponed or rejected.

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DQS Certification India Private Limited announced plans to launch the knowledge portal on the subject of Software Engineering and Management System Learning Courses by the name of PeriDISTA. This knowledge portal, using internet technology, will provide the training and learning material on the body of knowledge for software engineering on subjects like software estimation, software development methodologies, software project management, software security, etc. These are key areas which will support the software engineering practices in the Indian IT industry.

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DQS Certification India Private Limited, an SEI Authorized Transition Partner for CMMI Services, assesses Al-Bilad Arabia Company Limited, making it the first Saudi company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be CMMI Level 3 assessed.

DQS Certification India, an SEI Authorized Transition Partner, completed the CMMI SCAMPI Assessment recently and assigned the CMMI Maturity Level 3 to Al-Bilad Arabia Company Limited (ABA).

CMMI standing for Capability Maturity Model Integrated is the structured collection of software engineering best practices that has been published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) located at Pittsburgh, USA. CMMI and SCAMPI are the registered trademark and service-mark of SEI, CMU, USA.

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OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational health and safety management systems. Requirements specifies requirement for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, to enable an organization to control its OH&S risks and improve its performance.

OHSAS 18001:2007 supersedes OHSAS 18001:1999, but remains current until 2009.

There have been a number of significant changes to the document since the first edition was published in 1999.

Principal amongst the changes are much greater emphasis on “health” rather than just “safety”, and significantly improved alignment to ISO 14001:2004 (to enable organizations to develop “integrated management systems”).

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We are pleased to announce the new partnership between DQS Certification India Pvt. Ltd., and AFAQ-EAQA, part of AFNOR Groupe (http://www.afnor.org/) - an international service provider - with worldwide focus. Positioned internationally as 5th Largest Certification Organization of the world, AFNOR Groupe is an integrated service provider for Management Systems Certification, Product Certification and Inspection, and many specialized and niche services, including Certification of Competencies of Personnel.

AFNOR Groupe has 65,200 certified sites in 60 countries and more than 30,000 companies from all over the world trust AFNOR Groupe and its services.

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DQS Certification India Pvt Ltd, the SEI Authorized Transition Partner for providing CMMI Assessment and Training Services, has launched three websites on the internet for the advantage of the practitioners in the IT industry specially for those who are looking at a sharper focus on implementing the software engineering best practices during the development of processes and products.

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