| Mumbai, India – July 10, 2007: Patni Computer Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of Information Technology services and business solutions, today announced a partnership with iTKO, a US-based testing software company, to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing services as part of its comprehensive Verification and Validation (V&V) practice. Through this partnership, Patni will deploy the iTKO LISA SOA Testing solution at its V&V Centre of Excellence (COE) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Patni’s V&V practice is backed by experience of over 10,000 person years in providing Verification and Validation solutions on diverse platforms like mainframe, client/server, Web, embedded technologies, J2EE, .NET. With this partnership, Patni will strengthen its foray into SOA testing, giving the company the capability to offer end-to-end solutions for deploying SOA.
“Our V&V team consistently exploits emerging opportunities to ensure faster delivery of quality software that offers increased stability and higher performance,” said Dilip Dhanuka, Senior Vice President and Head of Product and Technology Initiatives, Patni. “The scale of testing required for complex, dynamic SOA applications can be daunting for the world’s biggest institutions. LISA exercises every layer of SOA, ascertaining cost-effective test creation and reuse, with constant validation of functional integrity and performance. Patni’s expertise in software testing coupled with the superior SOA testing capabilities of this solution will ensure robust SOA deployments for clients.”
According to industry analysts, the market for IT services involved in delivering SOA applications will dominate the enterprise technology budget, with more than USD $33.7 billion dollars estimated to be spent in the year 2010. Within this growing SOA services market, approximately 25%, or $8.4B of that annual estimate is expected to be allocated toward SOA Testing, a vital aspect of any successful implementation.
“A go-to-market strategy utilizing Patni’s key V&V services and SOA delivery groups, with iTKO’s leading SOA software testing tool LISA promises a resilient architecture to our clients,” said Satendar Bhatia,
VP Alliances, iTKO. “With automation and reuse against every technology component involved in SOA, there is less delivery risk, at a lower total cost. The big winner here is the end customer.”
The two firms will work together to offer LISA SOA tests as a part of Patni’s V&V methodology and toolset, ensuring rapid adoption for end customers.
About iTKO
iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software suite for testing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous(tm) software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects, JMS/messaging, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Citigroup, Sun, Cardinal Health, AMD and i2.
http://www.itko.com
About Patni Computer Systems
Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni caters to its clients through its industry-focused practices, including insurance, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications and media, and its technology-focused practices.
With an employee strength of over 12,000; multiple global delivery centres spread across 12 cities worldwide; 21 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 579 million for the year 2006.
Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.
Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its client's businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMI Level 5 organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.
For more information on Patni, visit www.patni.com .
Safe Harbor:
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.
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