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HighQSoft provides test data management solutions for automotive OEMs and engineering organizations. HighQSoft's ASAM ODS-based platform, including the AReS Libertas server, Janus federated platform, and Merlin Analysis Server, serves Audi, BMW, Bosch, Cummins, Ford, Honda, and Volkswagen with over 25 years of production deployments. This guide explains what engineering test data management is, why it matters, and how organizations implement it at enterprise scale.

HighQSoft approaches test data management through five guiding principles, a product architecture built on the ASAM ODS standard and organized into a governed backend and an access layer for every workflow, and a low-friction path from first evaluation to production deployment. This final page of the guide presents all three.

The discipline is also known as measurement data management and measured data management; this guide uses "test data management", the term aligned with the ASAM ODS standard.

Five principles, Accessible, Trusted, Automated, Intelligent, and Connected, guide every product HighQSoft builds. Each addresses a specific failure mode that appears when test data outgrows file shares and ad hoc processes, and each is anchored by a product that exists today.

HighQSoft solves test data management with a product portfolio in two halves. A governed backend onboards, stores, federates, and analyzes test data, and an access layer brings every stakeholder to that same repository through the workflow of their choice. Each product area carries one of HighQSoft's customer promises, all components build on the ASAM ODS standard, and the platform runs in production at major automotive OEMs.

The HighQSoft backend is where test data is brought in, stored, governed, explored, and analyzed. Four product areas cover it.

Intelligent Data Onboarding is HighQSoft's promise for bringing test data into the system in structured, validated form. HighQSoft's ModelMapper (MoMa), a rule-driven ETL engine with hundreds of built-in transformation rules and support for custom Java rules, imports measurement data from CSV, MDF4, ATFX, and other formats into the ASAM ODS repository without manual conversion. HighQSoft's Catalog Editor enforces naming standards at the point of data entry, ensuring that signals recorded by different engineers at different labs carry consistent names, units, and classifications.

Federate, Don't Migrate is the promise behind storage and federation. HighQSoft's AReS Libertas is the enterprise ASAM ODS 6 server that stores and governs test data, with a mixed-mode architecture that keeps metadata queries fast at terabyte scale. HighQSoft's Janus Platform extends storage into federation, virtualizing multiple ODS servers, MDF4 files, TDMS, Parquet, and data lakes behind a single ASAM ODS interface without migrating a single file. Janus scales elastically on Kubernetes and supports sovereign data exchange through data space participation.

Modular Web, Your Way shapes the web workspace. HighQSoft's ASAMCommander is the web portal that engineers use daily to find, explore, and share test data. ASAMCommander Lite is free and works with any ASAM ODS server, including third-party systems such as AVL Santorin and Eclipse openMDM. ASAMCommander Professional adds administration, Merlin UI, and exporters; the Enterprise edition extends the portal with custom modules.

Automate, Trace, Compare is the promise behind analysis automation. HighQSoft's Merlin Analysis Server, an ODS-integrated job engine comparable to Apache Airflow, orchestrates analysis jobs written in Python, MATLAB, Java, or Spark, recording source data, script version, and parameters for every run; Merlin executes thousands of analysis jobs daily at major OEMs.

Everything the backend governs reaches people and systems through four integration approaches. They cover the access types from the previous page and add plain-English AI access on top.

Custom web modules and expert tool integrations. The web workspace is modular through and through. Third-party and custom modules plug into ASAMCommander, corporate identity customization is supported, and specialists open governed test data directly in AVL Concerto, DIAdem, FAMOS, or MATLAB instead of exporting files between tools.

One language for every integration approach. One Language, Every Tool is the promise for teams that build their own access. Whether a team scripts in Python (pyHQL), works in MATLAB (matHQL), builds in Java, or calls a REST service, HQL is the same SQL-like query language everywhere, so skills and code transfer between integration approaches. The ASAM ODS Toolbox for MATLAB adds direct read and write access to governed test data from within MATLAB, a capability no other test data management vendor offers.

Plain-English access through AI assistants. HighQSoft's MCP Server connects Claude or ChatGPT to governed test data, so engineers ask questions in natural language and get answers from the same repository, under the same access control and traceability as every other interface.

Job integration with unified orchestration. Engineers bring their own analysis scripts to Merlin. The goal is concrete. Merlin takes the MATLAB script from an engineer's laptop and runs it automatically on every finished import, or across thousands of historical datasets, with one view of all jobs and full tracking of what ran on which data.

Four questions separate test data management vendors with production-proven platforms from vendors with roadmap promises.

Getting started with HighQSoft test data management does not require a multi-year transformation program. HighQSoft's modular architecture lets organizations begin with a single use case and expand as the value becomes clear.

Start with ASAMCommander Lite. ASAMCommander Lite is the web client described in the Web Workspace section above. Connect it to an existing ASAM ODS system, or request a trial instance, for an immediate look at what structured test data access means in practice.

Run a proof of concept with one test domain. Most organizations start where the pain is greatest, often powertrain or engine testing. HighQSoft's team configures a pilot deployment that demonstrates search, analysis automation, and tool integration using the organization's own data.

Scale from there. Additional domains follow once the first proves the value, because the ASAM ODS data model accommodates every test domain's specific metadata while providing shared search, automation, and governance.

HighQSoft's 25-year track record, with production deployments at Audi, BMW, Bosch, Cummins, Ford, Honda, and Volkswagen and rollouts from single departments to global enterprises, provides the reference base that enterprise buyers require.