Strategic Alliances

Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions – open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms; providing solutions that transform software delivery into a more manageable, efficient and predictable business process. To learn more about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.

Cinnober is an independent technology provider. They serve banks, exchanges, brokerage firms and other actors that have extreme demands on business functionality, high throughput and low latency. They are passionately focused on one thing: applying advanced financial technology to help marketplaces exploit their full potential.

Cinnober technology powers some of the most demanding marketplaces in the world. The company creates high performance solutions based on their TRADExpress platform that is flexible and scalable, based upon a modular architecture.

The company delivers advanced trading solutions to exchanges, banks and other actors with extreme demands on business functionality, high throughput and low latency in a variety of markets. They offer mission-critical solutions for financial, commodity, energy and binary markets. The solutions are developed using Java and are independent of hardware platforms, databases and operating systems.

Gomez, the Web performance division of Compuware, provides the industry’s leading solutions for optimizing the performance, availability, and quality of Web and mobile applications. The on-demand Gomez platform integrates solutions for Web load testing, Web performance management, Web cross-browser testing, and Web performance business analysis that test and measure Web and mobile applications from the “outside-in” – across all users, browsers, devices, and geographies – using a global network of over 120,000 locations. When combined with Compuware Vantage, Gomez offers the industry’s only solution for optimizing application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet. Over 2,500 customers worldwide, ranging from small companies to large enterprises – including 12 of the top 20 most visited US Web sites – use Gomez solutions to increase revenue, build brand loyalty, and decrease costs. For more details, visit www.gomez.com

Grid-Tools are specialists in test data creation, test data management and information lifecycle management. Their experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for over 15 years. The Grid-Tools Datamaker Suite includes a wide range of tools for test data management including such innovative products as Datamaker (a revolutionary tool that extracts quality test data and places it in a central repository), DataShrink (for subsetting and shrinking databases), Data Test Professional (for managing the data feeding performance tools) and Data Archive (providing a different, more efficient approach to archiving). Within a short span of time, Grid-Tools have picked up significant momentum and an impressive list of well known and respected customers and strategic partners world-wide. The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the “data-centric” approach to testing whereby, their focus is to ensure the quality of the test data you are using is of the right quality for successful testing. For more information visit www.grid-tools.com.

AppLabs has over 10 years experience using the full range of the HP - Mercury tools and technologies. Working closely with Mercury 's technology on client's projects ensures our consultants' skills are constantly updated with any new developments. Our approach is to support the business and IT with a solution and method that can allow the client to get projects to market quicker. Working closely in partnership with HP we ensure we are always up to date with the latest Mercury technology. AppLabs also provides a range of certified training courses for Mercury tools.

AppLabs is also an exclusive member of HP's Managed Services Provider (MSP) program. This provides AppLabs access to proven, industry-leading Business Technology Optimization (BTO) and Information Management (IM) software with flexible licensing options designed to help address the diverse needs of our customers in a rapidly changing marketplace. The MSP program offers the following licensing options: Multi-tenant, Utility and Subscription and Dedicated Perpetual; each designed to align service contracts to customer requirements.

AppLabs is an IBM Software Value Plus (SVP) partner focusing on IBM Rational enablement. IBM’s new global channel strategy will enhance its vast ecosystem and encompass an open distribution mode and Software ValueNet allowing its channel partners to deliver even more value to our mutual customers. AppLabs has over 5 years of experience working with IBM Rational and is excited to be a part of this distinctive program that will afford our customers continued exposure to best of breed solutions. For more information on IBM Rational  products visit www.ibm.com.

Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the elite Microsoft Business Partners who earn the highest customer endorsement and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and commitment to help implement technology solutions that match customer’s exact business needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners get the highest level of requirements from Microsoft and establish the most robust, efficient and scalable implementations of Microsoft technologies in demonstrated enterprise customer deployments or an on-site Microsoft assessment.

Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For three decades, Oracle has provided the software and services that enable organizations to get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. Oracle's partner ecosystem, managed by Oracle PartnerNetwork, is fundamental to Oracle's success. Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle's leading products.

Partner with Oracle: http://partner.oracle.com
More about Oracle and partners: http://www.oracle.com/partnerships
Oracle Company Information: http://www.oracle.com/timeline/index.html

A privately held corporation, Original Software has its North American headquarters outside Chicago and its European headquarters near London, England. Original Software provides software systems that simplify the testing of application software throughout its lifecycle. The company develops and markets automated software testing solutions that let organizations improve processes and application quality while simultaneously reducing the costs associated with repairing software defects. Original Software offers a complete application quality solution including advanced quality management, defect tracking, data extraction and management, automated rules-based testing and reporting solutions with user-friendly controls, award winning technical support services and flexible educational and consulting services. For more information visit www.origsoft.com.

RadView Software, founded in 1993, is a leading provider of load testing stress testing and performance testing software. RadView's products are installed at over 2000 customer sites worldwide, providing companies with highly efficient, robust solutions for testing the performance, scalability and reliability of their internet applications. The products are designed to ensure the enterprise readiness of the most advanced internet applications, simulates traffic of users and provides detailed information on how the applications function under load.

Other VendorsAppLabs also has experience of working with many tools vendors that have products that can assist our clients with niche business solutions. Our partnership with these companies allows us to offer a tailored solutions to meet our clients needs.

As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. To reach its goals as a global organization, SAP needs a strong channel partner network. That's why the SAP PartnerEdge program was created – to draw partners who are highly committed and highly qualified – and equipped with the right framework, tools and resources to capture the enormous opportunities.

Partner with SAP: http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/index.epx                  
SAP Company Information: http://www.sap.com/index.epx     

SmartBear provides innovative, award-winning and yet affordable products for software developers and quality assurance teams since 1999. Their products enable companies to accelerate development and testing processes and deliver high-quality solutions on time while dramatically reducing the software development and quality assurance costs. The company has thousands of customers ranging from the world’s largest organizations to progressive one-developer shops in more than 80 countries. Customers include hi-tech companies and software vendors, financial and insurance companies, healthcare organizations, educational institutions and government agencies. Over 70 partners and resellers worldwide bring our solutions closer to your business. To learn more about them, please visit http://smartbear.com.

SOA SoftwareSOA Software™ is the leading provider of comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation and Mainframe SOA products for the realization of Service-Oriented Architecture. SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA policy governance solution (Policy Manager™), a development governance platform-independent SOA asset management and metadata federation solution (Repository Manager™) an operational governance high-performance, scalable SOA management and security solution (Service Manager™), a mainframe SOA solution for CICS Applications (SOLA™) , a powerful and easy to use development tool for mainframe SOA, (SOLA Developer™). SOA Software's platform-independent Integrated SOA Governance and Mainframe SOA products process over 500 million mission critical transactions per month, ensuring the relevance, security, reliability, and performance of services and applications. SOA Software products are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations.

TurnKey Solutions provides Enterprise-level, comprehensive functional testing products and services for ERP, CRM and custom software application environments, with vertical automation offerings specialized for Oracle applications and SAP. Through our partnership with HP Software, we cooperatively offer a wide range of automated and outsourced Quality Management solutions, all designed to meet the diverse needs of clients and industries worldwide. Incorporated in 1992, TurnKey Solutions is headquartered in Denver, CO with offices located across the US and a technical operations center in India. To learn more about TurnKey Solutions, visit www.turnkeysolutions.com.

Some of the vendors AppLabs values as key partners are:

• Compuware
• Empirix
• Facilita
• Odin

AppLabs partners with global system integrators across its full range of solutions and services. Supporting these leading integrators with best-practice quality management and testing services ensures that clients get the best possible outcome for their key projects.

AppLabs finds that this approach is only possible if there is a true willingness to work together from both companies towards providing the client with a well structured service. Our clients always reflect back how well we work together with their other suppliers to ensure that the project runs smoothly and they are not confused by lines of communication.

Some of the leading companies we have the privilege to name as our partners are:

• Capgemini
• Computest
• Computacenter
• CSC
• Siemens
• Sun Microsystems

However, many of these relationships have been founded around client projects and we are delighted to be offered the opportunity to work alongside our clients suppliers when the opportunity arises.