iTKO LISA | SOA Integration, Testing & Virtualization Solutions

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Our Mission

iTKO helps organizations mitigate the cost and risk of delivering highly complex, modern applications in an environment of constant change. We do this through software products and professional services for testing, validating and virtualizing the enterprise applications that organizations rely upon.

iTKO's LISA product suite is focused on removing key constraints to modern application quality and agility. Quality should be everyone's responsibility across the software lifecycle. When you have all the key stakeholders involved, including QA, business analysts and developers, you can truly begin to deliver software with confidence. Agility is increasingly important in a highly competitive and rapidly changing marketplace. Removing test and delivery constraints is essential to obtaining the agility needed from enterprise applications to respond to market needs.

We believe distributed, multi-tier, heterogeneous implementation architectures including SOA, BPM, Web 2.0, cloud computing, integration suites, and ESBs represent the future of enterprise software. Yet, with these application architectures comes greater complexity and change, and an exponential increase in potential points of failure. This shift, along with the popularity of more agile development techniques, has exposed serious inadequacies with traditional software quality management. iTKO is determined to change that.

The Business Imperative for Software Quality

Quality is a recognized strategic differentiator in many industries and business functions such as manufacturing and customer service. Yet, many organizations have failed to fully grasp quality management's impact and value in software development. This is evidenced by a stubbornly high rate of failed enterprise software projects, with software defects now piling up more than US$90 billion in annual costs. These failures and risks can be greatly minimized when stakeholders are aligned, and collaborative quality is instilled early and throughout the software lifecycle.

Why haven't previous approaches been more successful?

Many organizations would like to achieve greater quality coverage, more automated testing, and better collaboration. However, their existing quality tools could be inadequate for end-to-end testing, difficult to use, or originally designed for previous generations of applications that were more monolithic and self-contained.

As a result, separate testing teams and siloed efforts were established at different stages of the lifecycle, with limited sharing of test assets. Multiple costly test environments were created to support the different stages, and manual testing was heavily relied upon because effective automated tools weren't available.

The result for many organizations is a test and delivery lifecycle that is disjointed and inefficient. Worse yet, undiscovered defects may continue to surface in production, negatively impacting the business in terms of poor customer satisfaction, missed SLAs, regulatory compliance lapses, and rising support costs.

iTKO Delivers Modern Application Quality

iTKO has spent over a decade on the journey to define and deliver modern application quality to our customers. Based on the experience of countless customer engagements and collaboration with a diverse mix of industry leaders, we have developed our LISA product suite to address the needs of modern application quality. We been rewarded with industry and analyst awards, but more importantly we've received the praise and support of our valued enterprise customers. We invite you to learn more about LISA and explore the potential benefits for your organization.