London, UK, August 25th 2016 - Validata Group, the leader in Continuous Testing and Release Automation solutions, and Tieto, a leading Nordic software and services company, are pleased to announce that they have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate on Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing. This joint offering increases the choice for customers providing them more control over successful project delivery and will enable customers to have a better predictability over IT expenditure, simplified planning and reduce costs.
Analysts quote that companies spend over 23% per year of their IT budget on QA and Testing. Customers are under constant pressure to reduce costs on IT applications and reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while at the same time maintain high quality assurance. Banks across the world are focusing on replacing their legacy core banking applications with the latest systems that can enable them to put in place a customer centric approach, that can not only strengthen relationships, but also lead to increasing customer profitability.
This partnership combines Validata’s advanced technology solutions with Tieto’s extensive experience and capabilities. Validata provides the first unified Test Automation and DevOps platform, built from the ground up with Agile and Cloud in mind, to bring together requirements, testing, defects, planning, resources, development and deployment, capable of integrating with external systems such as HP QC, CA Clarity, IBM RTM, Atlassian Jira etc, delivering a ‘single version of the truth’ and enabling continuous delivery, integration, testing and monitoring. Validata’s platform drives quality and velocity for DevOps-oriented or traditional development teams showing 10x overall productivity improvements over siloed QA tools. Its model-based approach enables the automatic generation of test cases and eliminates the high maintenance costs of traditional script-based test automation.
“Through this partnership we will be able to enhance our agile software development and software life-cycle services to our customers in the Nordics. When Tieto's market leading industry solutions are combined with Validata’s technology solutions we can test, integrate and deploy new software to our clients in more automated and cost efficient way”, says Ilkka Korkiakoski, Vice President Business Development in Financial Services, Tieto.
Vaios Vaitsis, CEO & Founder of Validata Group, added, “It was natural for our two companies to partner and work strategically in order to ensure that we deliver the best customer experience to our clients, release faster with improved quality and reduce the costs, efforts and risks”
About Tieto
Tieto aims to capture the significant opportunities of the data-driven world and turn them into lifelong value for people, business and society. We aim to be customers’ first choice for business renewal by combining our software and services capabilities with a strong drive for co-innovation and ecosystems. tieto.comFor more information
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About Validata Group
Validata Group is the leader in Enterprise Software Testing and Release Automation, helping its clients accelerate application delivery, optimize business risks and reduce costs.Validata provides the first unified Test Automation and DevOps platform, built from the ground up with Agile and Cloud in mind, to bring together requirements, testing, defects, planning, resources, development and deployment, capable of integrating with external systems such as HP QC, CA Clarity, IBM RTM, Atlassian Jira etc, delivering a ‘single version of the truth’ and enabling continuous delivery, integration, testing and monitoring.
Validata’s platform drives quality and velocity for Devops-oriented or traditional development teams showing 10x overall productivity improvements over siloed QA tools. Its model-based approach enables the automatic generation of test cases and eliminates the high maintenance costs of traditional script-based test automation. validata-software.com