SEI has transitioned its CMMI Services and Operations from Software Engineering Institute to CMMI Institute. CMMI Institute is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Now from 01-December, 2012 onwards all CMMI related operations like trainings, assessment and other related activities will happen from CMMI Institute, which is also located in Pittsburgh. CMMI Institute can be accessed online at http://cmmiinstitute.com. CMMI Institute have professionals who are well experienced to serve the existing SEI Partners across the globe.
CMMI Institute will cater the already available products and services including CMMI training and certification, sponsor conferences and classes. And will keep providing the up to date information about CMMI process improvement models and appraisals to CMMI implementers.
Now a question comes to mind, what will happen to SEI? As per SEI, they will continue to conduct advance research for software engineering and will continue to provide best practices for Software Process Management.
You can read more about CMMI Institute at http://cmmiinstitute.com