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ITKO helps Western Power Successfully Rollout a New Testing, Validation and Virtualization Strategy for Enterprise Applications

Successful SOA Migration of Mission Critical Enterprise Application enabled with ITKO's LISA Product Suite and Best Practices

DALLAS, TX, July 7, 2009 -- ITKO, the leading provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for distributed enterprise applications, and Western Power, a leading Australian energy services provider, today announced the successful rollout of a new testing strategy for Western Power's enterprise applications based on ITKO's LISA product suite. Western Power is developing a new mission-critical customer service application based on this strategy and ITKO LISA software to lower risk, reduce quality assurance costs, and improve time to market.

Western Power project teams are prioritising testing efforts using the corporation's Risk Management Guidelines so that the amount of testing applied is proportional to the business risk. "This targeted testing approach ensures that the costs and efforts are commensurate with their importance to the business," said Leigh Sprlyan, CIO of Western Power. "Obtaining maximum business value for the money is the key driver."

Western Power's customer service application is a complex, webMethods-integrated solution that helps the utility company track and resolve thousands of unique customer issues every business day. For a critical support system of this magnitude, increasing the reliability and quality of the software is a must. In addition, a regulatory need for high levels of accuracy and responsiveness to customer issues was a mandated requirement, including reduction in system downtime and errors in a verifiable, repeatable, and auditable form.

As a result, Western Power is implementing a new testing, validation and virtualization strategy leveraging ITKO's LISA product suite to better meet both regulatory and customer demands. Within months of their adoption of LISA, Western Power has been able to migrate manually coded testing efforts into highly automated tests that provided greater test coverage across the application at lower costs.

""We were excited to see the team at Western Power realize rapid benefits by creating and automating a broad set of test and validation scenarios within a few months of using LISA," said Satendar Bhatia, VP Alliances at ITKO. "They also virtualized many of the constrained or unavailable services in their infrastructure, which provided them with a ready environment for test and development activities at a fraction of the expected configuration cost."

Additional development projects will be brought into the scope of the new testing strategy to provide Western Power with even greater benefits moving forward. For more information on the use of ITKO's LISA product suite at Western Power, a case study is available for viewing at http://www.ITKO.com/resources/westernpower.jsp

About ITKO, a CA Technologies company

ITKO, a CA Technologies company, optimizes composite application lifecycles. Our CA LISA virtualization and validation software increases the agility of developing and delivering complex and cloud-based applications to market faster, while shifting quality left to eliminate costly constraints and defects in an environment of constant change. ITKO solutions eliminate software dependences, decrease release times, and increase the reliability of composite applications that leverage cloud computing, SOA, BPM, integration suites and ESBs. ITKO's global customers include 5 of the top 6 Fortune 500 commercial banks, 5 of the top 6 Fortune 500 telecommunications firms as well as leading firms in insurance, travel, retail, utilities and government agencies. For more information, visit http://www.ITKO.com.

ITKO Press Contact: Jason English - news@ITKO.com -- 1-214-764-9318

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