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Rational software from IBM helps organizations create business value by improving their software development capability. The Rational software development platform integrates software engineering best practices, tools, and services. With it, organizations thrive in an on demand world by being more responsive, resilient, and focused. Rational's standards-based, cross-platform solution helps software development teams create and extend business applications, embedded systems and software products. 98 of the Fortune 100 rely on Rational tools to build better software, faster. IDC has recognized Rational as the revenue leader in multiple application development and deployment markets.
The on demand era
Today's customers want more. They want higher quality, delivered at lower cost. They want faster turnaround, more personalized service, and greater customization. And they want it now. To meet these needs, organizations are evolving their business to become more:

  • Responsive to dynamic changes in demand, supply and pricing
  • Adaptive to variable cost structures, with scalable business processes
  • Focused on core competencies that create competitive advantage
  • Resilient to threats with consistent availability and security.

Welcome to the On Demand era. This new wave of enterprise transformation requires tighter integration of applications and businesses processes, more collaborative relationships with customers and business partners-and an enhanced emphasis on software development.

Rational: The software development platform for an on demand world
Software development competency is essential to building and evolving the software ecosystems that power an on demand world: applications that create strategic advantage, adapt quickly to changing business needs, and provide high levels of reliability and scalability. The Rational platform fundamentally improves the way organizations build software. It encourages teams to:

  • Adopt iterative development practices that reduce project risk.
  • Focus on architecture, to develop more resilient systems that adapt more quickly to changing business needs.
  • Effectively manage change and protect critical strategic assets.

The result: a more proficient software development team, and a more responsive, resilient, and focused business.
For more information, please Visit www.rational.com

Gold Sponsors

Established in 19,90 as the first Company in Software Technology Park, Pune, Persistent provides complete life cycle services for offshore software product development services. During the last thirteen years of operation, Persistent has established an excellent track record of being an Innovation Partner and has contributed to product R&D, development, QA, support, and deployment efforts of leading software companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel, Agilent Technologies, Bridgestone, Openwave, Oblix, CriticalPath and i2 Technologies.

Located in Pune and Nagpur, the Company employs top Computer Science talent and has setup an impressive facility in the heart of the city. Persistent has an exceptional team of over 750 persons, comprising of 90% computer science graduates, 20% IIT graduates and post graduates, several PhDs and a large number of people having significant US software development experience. Persistent Systems is privately held with an equity investment from Intel-64 Fund. The Company has been profitable for every single quarter since inception.

Our work for the above clients includes technology areas like, Databases and DB internals, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Identity Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Network and Content Management, Application Migration, RFID, Mobile Solutions and Email and messaging. Persistent has also developed its own products in the Identity Management and Enterprise Application Integration space.
For more information, please visit www.persistent.co.in


Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 19,89, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services to govern the priorities, people and practices of IT; deliver and manage applications; and integrate IT strategy and execution.

Customers worldwide rely on Mercury Optimization Centers to improve quality and performance of applications and manage IT costs, risk and compliance. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners.
For more information, please visit http://asia.mercuryinteractive.com

Testing Tool Vendor

For nearly three decades, Compuware has helped businesses build quality applications. Compuware is a billion-dollar company delivering software tools and professional services that increase productivity for our customers: approximately 25,000 of the world's largest and most respected businesses. Compuware is recognized globally as the premier source for solutions that deliver business applications for distributed, enterprise and web-based environments.
Our market-leading products and skilled IT professionals deliver value through:
- reduced application life cycle costs
- improved quality
- easier technology integration
- enhanced performance.

Solutions throughout the application life cycle
For development and integration, quality assurance testing and performance and fault management, Compuware products deliver. With the most complete set of software tools available in the industry, Compuware products enhance the productivity of individual developers, testers and analysts, as well as the entire IT team.

Expert services deliver value
Compuware people know the application life cycle inside and out. Our extensive experience in professional services means our clients receive comprehensive project support with the people, products and processes they need to succeed. Our global professional services staff delivers a real-world perspective and years of experience for an integrated, reliable solution with real return on investment.
For more information, please visit www.compuware.com


Borland is a world leader in Java and cross-platform development solutions, and is Microsoft's number one partner in development for the .NET and Windows platforms. Squarely focused on improving customers' development and deployment capabilities, Borland has enjoyed one of the great comebacks of the modern technology era. Borland was recently named one of the technology companies to watch by Fortune and Forbes magazines, among others. With a strong balance sheet and P&L, Borland is again recognized by industry and financial analysts as one of the premier companies in advancing development technology. Fiercely independent for 20 years, and with a team dedicated to producing excellent technologies, Borland is committed to helping companies create sustainable competitive advantage with custom software. Today's Borland, just like yesterday's, only faster. Borland helps companies solidify enduring competitive advantage by enabling them to create better software faster.
For more information, please visit www.borland.com

Borland and the Borland logo are registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Testing Service Provider

Disha Technologies was founded in 19,97 with the mission to help customers build high quality software and hardware solutions by providing world-class engineering and consulting for testing and quality assurance. With experience at some of the largest software companies building the most complex products in the world, we have the depth of experience to provide expert advice and services in software test and quality engineering (STQE). Our proven and time-tested processes and experienced teams have helped improve quality in a variety of product areas including system/platform software, n-tier applications software, web services, and software for hardware devices and peripherals.
For more information, please Visit www.dishatech.com


VeriSoft InfoServices (formerly Prabodhan Infosystems - Software Testing Division) is one of the pioneering and leading companies in the niche of third party software testing and QA services. Over the last 6 years about 100 software testing projects have been successfully completed for customers around the world - from cutting edge technology and product companies to some of the largest global software services companies. The projects cover a variety of application domains and technologies and span the entire software development life-cycle, right from document and code reviews, unit / component testing to integration, system and regression testing. Expertise includes different types of testing such as functional, usability, robustness, compatibility, internationalization / localization, security, with a particularly strong reputation for automated regression and load/performance testing.
For more information, please Visit
www.verisoft.co.in


Quexst Associates is a QA house dedicated to Software Quality. We offer proven and established SW Testing Services. We also offer SW Process Consulting and Training Services. We use formal methods to ensure Software Quality. Through our Software Testing Service, we offer an organized process of identifying discrepancies, i.e. the variances between the actual versus the expected results. This enables our clients ensure the quality and reliability of their SW system. Through our Process Consulting Service, we help organizations implement Quality Models such as CMM, CMMI and ISO 9001. This results in a definite advantage for an organization internally in terms of business process effectiveness and externally as market reputation. Through our Training and Education Service, we help SW Industry meet its demand for trained Quality Professionals. Quexst Associates provides training in areas of Software Quality Assurance and Control.

Others

Vyom SQTL Labs Pvt. Ltd . (SQTL) is a company focused on training, recruitment assistance and consulting in Software Quality, Testing, Performance, Availability, IT Infrastructure and Service management. Established in June 2003, SQTL has already imparted training to hundreds of software testing professionals and provided recruitment assistance in the area of software quality testing to many high profile IT service companies.
For more information, please Visit www.sqtl.com

 
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