Satyam in Rational Unified Partner Program

BANGALORE: Satyam Computer Services and Rational Software Corporation have

come together in alliance by which Satyam would be a Systems Integrator and Test

Bureau partner under the Rational Unified Partner Program.

Rational Test Bureau originates from the company's international testing

program in which trained, supported testing-service companies use Rational

Testing tools - Rational Suite TestStudio ("RSTS") and Rational

TeamTest, to provide functional, reliability and performance testing of

customers' software applications. Under the scope of the agreement Rational will

grant Satyam the right to utilize RSTS products to provide software application

scalability and performance testing services to Satyam's customers.

Rational India country manager, M K Bharatee said, "We are excited about

the alliance with Satyam. Satyam's global reach as a systems integrator, plus

offshore presence in India, offers the marketplace an extremely attractive suite

of application testing solutions and services. With our product strength and

experience in the testing space, we see a great opportunity to partner with

Satyam to deliver best-of-breed testing solutions -- including offshore testing

services -- to the global marketplace. Our ultimate goal is simple, that we

would like to offer customers who have serious time and budget restraints, a

complete and thorough test solution to facilitate launching of new

software."

Satyam's senior vice president-quality, Prabhuu Sinha, "We are delighted

to partner Rational in their Unified Partner Program. What impressed us were

their strong customer focus and the importance they give to quality and testing

as vital parameters in the software development process. Satyam's aim is to

bring to the market end-to-end global quality solutions capability and I am

confident that our alliance with Rational enables us to deliver a solution that

is globally accepted and respected."

With the aim to fit customers' budget and time frame goals, Rational Test

Bureau is a reliable and flexible solution that offers experts and powered

infrastructure to perform application testing that effectively overcomes budget,

equipment and staff restraints. Customers can get all the powerful benefits of

Rational's integrated testing solution, RSTS, without having to purchase,

install, or even learn how to implement software tests.

Limited testing budget appeared to be one of the burdens that affect the

time-to-market for sophisticated software solutions. One of the outstanding

features of Rational Test Bureau is the minimized testing product license fee,

being charged only on a demand basis. The solution offers software developers

accelerated time-to-market and reduced testing costs for their newly developed

software.