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Dear Friends:

This is a special time in our company’s history as we celebrate our 10th anniversary.

This April marks 10 years since AppLabs’ inception. Incorporated in April 2001, AppLabs has grown from a three person outfit in a shared office space in Philadelphia, USA, to its current size with 2,500 employees in the US, UK, and India. What has not changed at AppLabs over the years is our commitment to delighting our customers with our thought leadership and innovative solutions.

It was ten years back when AppLabs decided to take the road less traveled - separate testing from development. Today I have no doubt in my mind that this strategy has paid-off not just for us but for our customers as well.

Without question, AppLabs has passed through its share of twists and turns before emerging as the undisputed leader in independent testing. Our customers see us as an innovative service provider that brings thought leadership to its delivery activities and we recognize the importance of the work entrusted to us by our customers.

AppLabs has a lot going for it as we enter into our 11th year as a company. We offer every possible type of software testing service, both as standalone, or all of it wrapped under a TCoE umbrella, with an emphasis on governance, metrics, managed services, and ROI. These services cover many of today’s hot areas such as cloud computing, web services, and mobile applications.We are especially strong in 6 verticals: insurance, financial services, technology, travel, retail, and healthcare/life sciences. In these verticals we have over the years built deep domain knowledge and invested in developing innovative solutions that are particular to these verticals.

Going forward IP and innovation will continue to be our differentiator. Our customers today are seeing great value in our offerings that embed our IP and innovation such as Unified Enterprise Automation Framework, SCORE, AppLabs Infrastructure Management and AppCloud.

By understanding, and embracing our customers' concerns, visions, and goals, over the last ten years, we were able to build relationships that have yielded excellent results. Today many of our customers see us as their strategic partner in testing. This emphasis on innovation, translating into real customer benefits, is finally what has set AppLabs apart as the company that CIOs can depend on.

As we celebrate our 10 years of success, I would like to thank all our customers and partners who have positioned us incredibly well for the future. I am extremely excited about this journey and truly believe the best of AppLabs is yet to come.

In this issue of perspective we have an article on Strategic TCoE and SCORE that was published in the - TEST Magazine. We also feature a story that was published in the Banking Technology News - Application Testing Gets a Pass Port. In the Technical Insights section we bring you a white paper on Data Discovery Services and Validation opportunities in Translational Medicine and the second piece in this section is about Test Process Improvement. The Newsletter also carries our usual columns including Company News, AppLabs in the News and Webinars. The case study section features three new case studies – ESRI, VIMIX and MERU.

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

Test CoE - Taking a Strategic Approach

As organizations seek to improve productivity and reduce application operating and maintenance costs, testing has become one of the fastest growing areas of corporate IT expenditure. Raja Neravati, SVP of AppLabs in this byline article published in the TEST Magazine narrates in detail why separating testing from development as part of the vendor selection process is becoming more and more popular and how independent testing is becoming increasingly valuable to companies looking to drive innovation in their quality management process. Click here to read more.

Application Testing Gets a Passport

Organizations are increasingly aware that in order to deliver truly effective testing, it needs to be considered at the very start of development. Bank Technology News in its latest edition has published a story on increasing acceptance of engaging services of testing specialists in the banking and financial services industry. Click here to read the complete article.

Technical Viewpoint

Data Discovery Services and Validation opportunities in Translational Medicine

Pervasive data services and access to information at all levels of an organization is a need that is tangible and felt across most industry sectors. While data integration has been a problem moderately addressed in large corporations and global enterprises in the past decade, data quality, pervasive business intelligence and proactive data intelligence are still nascent in the way they are being implemented in most industry sectors. Please click here to read more.

Test Process Improvement

With increased focus on cost and quality, most of the enterprises have been successful in establishing basic testing processes and a test team, but are often faced with several challenges. Though many enterprises invest heavily on testing, they often fail to reap benefits out of it. Please click here to read more.

Company News

AppLabs Opens New Chicago Office

Inorder to support AppLabs' ongoing strategy to build on its sales, customer service and support capabilities at the regional level, the company announced the opening of its new Chicago office, serving AppLabs customers in Midwest region. The office opens supporting professionals including field territory managers, consultants and support staff. Click here to read more.

AppLabs Partners with TurnKey Solutions

AppLabs has entered into a strategic partnership with TurnKey Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise-level, comprehensive functional testing solutions for ERP, CRM, and custom software application environments. The partnership will further strengthen AppLabs' strong ERP Testing (SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft) and quality management practice. Please click here to read the complete news.

AppLabs Webinar on 'Test Outsourcing and the Emergence of the Cloud’ Featured a Leading Independet Research Firm

Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst of Forrester Research, Inc. was the guest speaker in a recent webinar organised by AppLabs on 'Test Outsourcing and the Emergence of the Cloud'. Bill Martorelli spoke at lenght on test outsourcing and leveraging the cloud for testing. His presentation provided insights for CEOs, CIOs and other decision makers on how they can focus on the opportunities of cloud technologies, the current trends in the outsourcing marketplace, as well as best practices for customers seeking to incorporate cloud-based elements into their testing practices. Salient takeaways included:

Test outsourcing and current trends in the outsourcing marketplace
The pace of commercial adoption for testing services in the cloud
What offerings exist in the marketplace today and what can we expect in the future?
How should customers approach testing in the cloud?

AppLabs Moves to New 2000 Seat Facility in DLF

AppLabs has taken a new 2000 seat facility at DLF, SEZ in Hyderabad, India. The new facility represents a significant investment by AppLabs and re-affirms its status as a global center of excellence for software testing and quality management. Click here to read more.

AppLabs on 'The Art and Science of Testing Trading Platforms' at STeP-IN Forum's Software Testing Conference

Shivaramakrishna Nuthi, Business Analyst at AppLabs spoke at the plenary of STeP-IN SUMMIT 2011 on 'The Art and Science of Testing Trading Platforms'. The presentation highlighted the challenges involved in testing trading platforms and proposed several test methodologies and an approach for surmounting these challenges. He furhter discussed an effective scenario-based testing approach for building real time test scenarios. Please click here to get the copy of the presentation.

AppLabs to Exhibit at ASQ World Conference in Pittsburgh

AppLabs will be exhibiting at the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Pittsburgh, PA from May 15th to May 17th, 2011. Visit us at booth 216 to learn more about the largest independent software testing company in the world. Please click here to find more about the event.