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| HP Software Partnership |
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Patni is a HP Software Solutions Partner for Application Delivery, Application Maintenance and IT Governance. Patni’s alliance with HP Software enables access to the latest information / technical material on all HP Software products and also the beta evaluation rights for future product releases. Patni has leveraged HP Software’s testing tools for setting up the test processes and testing environment.
This alliance accrues several benefits to Patni including Training and support, Technical helpdesk, Collaboration in the solutions space, Product roadmap, Evaluation support and Special privileges to access the internal knowledge base.
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Leveraging Patni’s experience in testing and process consulting and its expertise for better alignment of IT strategy and execution with business goals |
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Improved productivity and efficiency |
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Higher cost efficiency |
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Reduced total cost of ownership due to reduced product maintenance and support costs |
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Increased quality levels and higher customer satisfaction. |
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| IBM Services Partnership |
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Patni has entered into a partnership with IBM for its tool - Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM). RPM helps align projects and resources with business priorities as well as helps plan and manage projects individually and as a comprehensive portfolio of assets, which meets enterprise objectives.
Patni has set up an IBM Rational competency lab and Center of Excellence, which assists software development teams on key tools & technologies offered by IBM Rational. This competency lab helps Patni showcase the best practices in software development, as well as create and standardize artifacts for re-use, thus enhancing productivity. Patni has several IBM Rational certified SMEs in the streams of Requirements Management, Analysis and Design, Configuration Management and Test Management.
This partnership has provided a framework whereby Patni has acquired the following and accrued the resulting benefits to its clients:
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Increased its software engineering capability through technical knowledge sharing sessions. |
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Access to IBM’s training and support through instructor led Rational University courses and assessment examinations, resulting in Subject Matter Experts. |
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Company-wide adoption of Rational methodologies and Rational technology suite. |
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Capability in developing artifacts for standardization, building reusable components leveraging the knowledge of rational methodology and tools. |
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| iTKO Partnership |
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Patni has entered into a partnership with iTKO, a US-based testing software company, to deliver Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing services as part of Patni’s comprehensive Verification & 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, India.
Dallas based 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 LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests. LISA exercises every layer of SOA ascertaining cost-effective test creation and reuse, with constant validation of functional integrity and performance.
Benefits to the Client
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| With this partnership, Patni will strengthen its foray into SOA testing, thereby providing the capability to offer end-to-end solutions for deploying SOA. Patni’s expertise in software testing coupled with the superior SOA testing capabilities of iTKO LISA framework will ensure robust SOA deployments for clients, at reduced costs. |
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