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Dear Friends:

As we reflect upon our notable progress in the second quarter, we realize that it is a testament to our ability to meet the needs of our customers worldwide. In this regard, our Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) has been playing a pivotal role. AppLabs has been a pioneer and thought leader in TCoE model. Today, AppLabs leverages its proprietary SCORE framework and TCoE that help realization of our customer goals much faster than the traditional discreet testing thereby reducing time to market and overall costs.

AppLabs has developed its standardization-centralization-optimization-review and expand (SCORE) methodology. The methodology integrates a number of methodologies e.g. test process improvement methodologies such as TMMi and TPI. It is based on assessing the current maturity of the customer in terms of testing and creating an improvement roadmap based on SCORE. SCORE is typically used as part of our TCoEs contracts. In this issue of Perspective the featured case studies includes our TCoE engagements at Farmers Insurance and Friends Provident.

Industry analysts continued endorsing AppLabs. The company was featured in reports or presentations by leading analysts - Forrester, Pierre Audoin Consultants(PAC), NelsonHall and IDC. NelsonHall in its report on Software Testing Services continued to name AppLabs as the Largest Software Testing Services Pure-Play in the World. On the Awards front AppLabs won the Deloitte Top 50 Philly, India Fast 25 and VII Times 100 during the quarter.

During the quarter, we made one very important acquisition - ValueMinds. Through ValueMinds acquisition we gained a high-end toolkit that provides a way for testers to multiply their productivity. It is our intention to use this IP and other IPs to continue to position AppLabs as a thought leader in the testing market. When someone hires AppLabs they naturally get our highly qualified testers but now they also get these proprietary tools and methodologies that can dramatically improve the quality of the software, reduce time to market, all in a very cost-effective way. The tools owned by us through ValueMinds acquisition address the most pressing problems faced by testers: how to generate test data quickly, design test cases effectively, and automate as much of the routine testing work as possible to enhance productivity.

In this issue's Business Insights section we have a white paper on Software as a Service (SaaS) - Supply Chain Software Testing. Technical Insights features Industry Comments on - Customer Experience: An Approach to Testing and Increasing Efficiency-The Advantages of Release-Based Testing Framework. Under the success story heading apart from the featured case studies we have a case study on VMIX, provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) video platform solutions. In the Project Example section we have a paper on how AppLabs helped with the Maintenance and Production Support for a Leading Independent Power Producer.

Like in our previous issues, this issue also covers our company news and has details of events in which we have made presentations.

If you'd like to share something with me, or have any questions or comments, I look forward to hearing it. You can write to me directly at sashir@applabs.com.

Best wishes,

Sashi Reddi
Founder, Chairman and CEO
AppLabs

Business Insight

In the recent years we have seen the supply chain software industry offering more solutions in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) space. Many large-scale software providers that currently offer licensed software are now offering some version of their solution as software-as-a-service. The solutions offered in this model go from strategic planning and procurement through warehouse and transportation management systems. Click here to read more.

Technical Viewpoint

Customer experience is "the sum of all experiences customer has over the duration of their relationship with the provider of a product or service purchased." It differentiates a company from its competitors; therefore customers must have a good experience. It is one of the important factors that need to be tested before a company launches a product into the market. . Please click here to read more.

Increasing efficiency holds the key to a successful testing life-cycle. Release Based testing (RBT) is one example to identify the advantages of increasing efficiency. To discuss this in detail, it is essential to address questions such as, what is RBT framework, why it is required, and what are the key drivers that influence it. Also, how a Release Based Testing framework is built and what are the possible benefits. Please click here to read more.

Company News

AppLabs Acquires ValueMinds

AppLabs recently acquired ValueMinds, an award-winning developer of Automated Testing tools. With this acquisition AppLabs continues to add to its toolkit of open source and proprietary testing tools to improve the productivity of its workforce and help customers accelerate ROI on Quality Assurance and increase QA process efficiencies. Please click here to read more.

AppLabs Forms a Strategic Partnership with Compuware

AppLabs has entered into a strategic partnership with Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware to deliver enhanced performance testing capabilities to customers. The partnership will complement AppLabs' comprehensive performance testing services by leveraging Gomez' easy-to-use, on-demand Web load and performance testing solution built to ensure the success of critical web-based business initiative. Please click here to read the complete press release.

AppLabs and IDC Host Webinar on ‘Leveraging Independent Testing Services for Higher Quality and Efficiency’

AppLabs and IDC, the leading analyst firm had recently organised a joint webinar titled - Leveraging Independent Testing Services for Higher Quality and Efficiency. In the live webinar, Rona Shuchat, Program Director of Application Outsourcing (AO) Services at IDC, spoke on various topics including, quality assurance challenges and maturity curve, testing service adoption trends and customer feedback on steering towards successful engagements. The webinar also highlighted the key options and considerations in testing services provider selection. Please click here to download the copy of the presentation.

AppLabs Continues to be the Largest Software Testing Services Pure-Play in the World: NelsonHall

In an analysis of 18 third-party testing firms accross the globe, based on criteria that include people management, domain expertise and ability to innovate, NelsonHall, the renowned independent analyst and advisory firm, has recognized AppLabs as the largest Software Testing Services (STS) pure-play for a second year in a row. Please click here to read the complete report.

AppLabs in the PAC report on the Worldwide Testing Services Market

The latest report by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) -Worldwide Testing Services Market 2010-2014: Key Growth Opportunities and Sector Trends gives testing services vendors and tools vendors a clear insight into the global software testing services market. It is encouraging to note that AppLabs has been mentioned in the 'Major Players' section of the report.

AppLabs at STeP-IN Forum's Software Testing Conference

AppLabs was the platinum sponsor at the recent STeP-IN Forum's Software Testing Conference held on September 03, 2010 at Hyderabad. Sashi Reddi, Founder, Chairman and CEO was the plenary speaker and presented on 'Top Ten Testing Predictions for 2011 and Beyond'. Sashi's presentation focused on how Testing Industry has grown exponentially in the last 5 years and how involving testing in the software development life-cycle (SDLC) helps organizations to verify and validate the product/application, mitigating the risks of failure post launch. Please click here to download the copy of the presentation.

Ashwin Palaparthi, VP of Innovation at AppLabs was also a speaker at the STeP-IN forum. Ashwin spoke on Automated Test Case Generation for Web Services. His presentation mainly focused on SOAP based web services, need for automated test case generation, web service test case generation framework, and test case generation process.

Recent Webinar - Predictive Testing: Outcome of a Test Event

It is a given that the cost of detecting and fixing software quality assurance issues grows exponentially over time. Predictive testing, a more pragmatic approach to software testing services, hugely reduces development risks and can easily cut costs, delivering high quality software faster.The testing industry also has evolved significantly in terms of service offerings, processes, methodologies, delivery models and business models. To implement Quality Assurance with consistency, AppLabs has steadfast models like TMMi and CMMi. With such discipline and processes, what should be the outcome of Testing and how should organizations benefit from the spend on testing?

In the live webinar, Raj highlighted how the 'Predictive Testing model' will address these issues and showcased an implementation path towards interpreting the outcome of a test event. This webinar also highlighted how predictive software. Click here to listen to the recorded webinarIncreasing Efficiency: Advantages of Release based Testing Framework

AppLabs Named in 2010 Global Services 100, Now Third Year in a Row

AppLabs has been named in the coveted 2010 Global Services 100 (GS100) list for the third straight year. The global study further endorses AppLabs as a company that serves mature global customers through advanced global delivery models, has broad portfolio of service offerings as well as niche leadership, and demonstrates continuous business excellence. Read More.

AppLabs in AllWorld Network's 25 fast growth companies

We are happy to inform you that AppLabs has been named under the prestigious India Fast Growth 25, a ranking of 25 fast growth companies by AllWorld Network. AllWorld Network was established in 2007 by Deirdre M. Coyle, Jr., Anne Habiby and Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, after many years of promoting entrepreneurship in the developed and developing worlds. To qualify as the fast growth companies and global standard entrepreneurs, every business must achieve a specific series of financial and performance milestones.