Keane Announces First On-Demand Software Quality Solution Suite
08 September 2011
QATalyst™ accelerates transformation needed to deliver improved software quality
Boston – September 08, 2011 – Keane Inc., an NTT DATA Company and a U.S.-based IT services firm, today announced the launch of QATalyst™, a comprehensive solution addressing quality across the entire software development lifecycle. QATalyst addresses unique and pressing quality challenges previously missing from most organizations’ quality repertoire, including quality by design, on-demand test environment management, on-demand performance testing in the cloud and data quality automation. QATalyst solution is transformational because it goes beyond traditional functional testing. By shifting the focus from post-development testing to a proactive quality process across the software development life-cycle, QATalyst is designed to reduce total time to software quality at a reduced cost while improving the quality of software.
“We understand that CIOs face tremendous pressure to align technology to business goals, and software is often the key. New approaches are needed that address quality in a comprehensive way, and with QATalyst we knew we found that solution,” said Raj Rao, head of global software quality practice at Keane. “With traditional quality assurance approaches, critical aspects of application quality such as application performance and data quality are ignored. Performance testing is expensive, time consuming, and often ignored. Data quality is done adhoc, and manually, resulting in enterprises making wrong decisions based on poor data. QATalyst extends quality testing to encompass requirements, planning, design and coding. In doing this, Keane’s QATalyst solution has been able to prevent up to 25-30 percent of defects before the testing phase even begins.”
According to a NIST study, poor quality software can total nearly $60 billion in the U.S. each year. One reason “cost of quality” runs so high is inadequate software quality methods. Today, organizations are testing too late in the development process, using outdated tools and putting little emphasis on quality across the software development life-cycle. Additionally, application quality is not up to par because quality is addressed only within a small testing window, resulting in poor application quality. QATalyst provides efficient software defect prevention as well as defect detection solutions.
Used at several client sites, Keane’s QATalyst approach to performance and quality testing has resulted in significant cost savings of as much as two thirds while reducing time involved by nearly half compared to traditional tools and quality testing approaches available in the market. Additionally, through Keane’s private cloud offering and self-provisioning test environments which are part of the QATalyst solution, test environment provisioning times have been reduced from days to hours, leadingto significant reduction in overall test and release timelines.
NOTE: QATalyst is a trademark of Keane, Inc.
About Keane
Keane, an NTT DATA Company, is an IT services firm headquartered in the U.S. with more than 12,500 professionals worldwide. For 45 years, Keane has been an Application Services specialist with distinguished project management credentials. Today, Keane offers a flagship suite of Application Services, as well as Infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing solutions delivered through onsite, nearshore, and offshore resources.
Visit www.keane.com to learn how our projects, managed services, and outsourcing engagements deliver value for a range of businesses and government agencies.
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