iTKO Wins "SD Times 100" Honors for Third Consecutive Year
Top SOA testing provider recognized as leader in the SOA testing space
Dallas, TX, June 1 2007 - iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, has been named to the "SD Times 100" list. The 5th annual "SD Times 100," published in the June 1, 2007 issue of BZ Media's SD Times, recognizes leaders and innovators across the software development industry.
iTKO is a winner in the "Test and QA" category. In its coverage of the winners, SD Times recognized iTKO for its breadth and depth of testing expertise by noting "In the SOA-test arena, iTKO was out front with the concept of testing for business continuity. The company continues to push the limits of availability with its complete collaboration solution."
Lifecycle Quality is a key aspect of SOA Governance, and SOA Testing is important at every stage of adoption to ensure that the resulting services, and their underlying implementation layers, can be trusted for business purposes. iTKO's LISA software tests every layer of SOA applications at design time, build time and runtime.
"The winners of this year's SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry," said David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times. "We took into account each nominee's products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we¹ve identified as helping to move the art of development forward."
"We are very proud to receive this recognition for the third year in a row," said Jim Mackay, CMO of iTKO. "We look forward to another year of advancement and innovation on the SOA Testing and QA front."
About iTKO
iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software suite for testing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous(tm) software quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA Complete SOA Testing Platform system performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects, JMS/messaging, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Sun, Capgemini, Cardinal Health, AMD, TIBCO and i2.
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iTKO Press Contact: Jason English, VP Corporate Marketing - Jason.English@iTKO.com -- 214-764-9318
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