Patni partners with iTKO for SOA Testing

Company News

New Delhi, July 10

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.

For further information, please contact:

Heena Kanal

Patni Computer Systems

+91-22-66930500

Heena.kanal@patni.com