Rightware

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Rightware is a Finnish software development company that provides automotive graphics software tools and services. These include services in gaming, graphics, and UI development, with a particular focus on the automotive industry. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Rightware has offices in Detroit, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Brighton, and Munich.

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Rightware was founded in December 2009 after Futuremark spins off its Mobile & Embedded Benchmark unit.

In January 2011, Rightware released their UI design software called Kanzi, and demonstrated a stereoscopic 3D home screen for Android made by Kanzi at Mobile World Congress 2011.^[1]

In 2013, it was announced that Audi was using Rightware's Kanzi software for developing digital user interfaces for Audi cars.^[2][3] The first commercial vehicle (Audi A3) with Kanzi technology was shipped in June 2012.^[4] At CES 2014, Audi revealed its fully digital Virtual Cockpit instrument cluster, created using Rightware Kanzi.

In 2013, Rightware raised another $5.2 million in venture capital funding.^[5]

On May 7, 2015,^[6] Rightware divested its graphics benchmarking business to Basemark, a newly formed Helsinki-based company, in a management buyout deal.

In 2015, Rightware announced that it was collaborating with Nissan.^[7]

In 2016, Rightware announced the founding members^[8] of its Kanzi Partner Program.

In 2016, Rightware stated that over 15 car manufacturers were using its Kanzi software for creating user interfaces.^[9]

In 2017, Kanzi powers 35 automotive brands. Rightware becomes a subsidiary of ThunderSoft.

During 2021, Rightware announced the release of Kanzi One, an android compatible all in one HMI tool for automobile's cockpits.^[10]

Kanzi One is a commercial package including the Kanzi UI framework and a variety of feature packs for further enhancing the HMI in relation to connectivity, mapping, visual effects, 3D vision, and preview capabilities.

Kanzi framework:

• Kanzi Studio: the core HMI development tool, used by designers and embedded engineers to create and customize user interfaces that run on embedded hardware.
• Kanzi Engine: real-time graphics engine, combining physically based rendering with an automotive-grade runtime.

Feature packs:

• Kanzi Connect
• Kanzi Maps
• Kanzi Particles
• Kanzi Shapes
• Kanzi Stereoscopy
• Kanzi VR

Rightware also provides worldwide engineering and design service.^{[citation needed]}