The Eldorado Research Institute is a not-for-profit research and development institute founded in 1997 as a nationwide association of companies. The main focus of Eldorado is in telecommunications and information technologies, including both software and hardware. Eldorado main activities are: software and hardware R&D, test engineering, process optimization, professional training, product certification, IT services and consulting, and consulting on the Brazilian Informatics Law. Several of those are done as offshore activities for clients and partners located worldwide, among them Motorola, Semp Toshiba, EMC, Borland, Magnetti Marelli, IBM, British Telecom and Texas Instruments. The Eldorado Research Institute is based on its own 100 thousand square feet building in the Campinas Technology Park in the city of Campinas, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The organization is certified at CMMI level 3. Currently there are tens of software projects ongoing involving about 200 engineers as well as tens of hardware projects involving about 90 engineers. There are large-scale test engineering projects ongoing with about 40 engineers. The institute has been internationally awarded a mark of 9.6 out of 10 by its main R&D global client. Its software releases have reached 98% on-time delivery. More than 30 hardware products have been deployed to the clients. The Institute holds 40% of the Brazilian market in mobile phone certification.