InfoStretch Corporation announces Elite Integration Validation of SSA*STAR™ Accelerator with Mercury Business Process Testing™

Santa Clara , CA - November 21, 2005. InfoStretch Corporation, a leader in testing solutions and services, announced today SSA*STAR™ Accelerator –for SSA ERPLN/BAAN 6.1, a service to automate integration testing using market-leading tools from Mercury including .Mercury Business Process Testing™, which is a part of Mercury Quality Center™. The SSA*STAR Accelerator is the first SSA/BAAN testing solution validated by Mercury, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software.

“During the past few years, we’ve observed a need for repeatable testing solutions to validate implementations, upgrades or changes in packaged applications,” said Rutesh Shah, Founder and CEO of InfoStretch. “SSA*STAR™ Accelerator enables business users to leverage our years of experience as well as our ready-made test assets to easily define, document and perform automated testing to deploy reliable applications.”

SSA*STAR™ Accelerator offers organizations the ability to leverage software offerings from Mercury with automated quality assurance best practices developed by InfoStretch. It helps reduce the cost and time of testing and automate the SOX documentation process. With the ability to dramatically condense testing cycles and costs, organizations can test more frequently and with greater coverage allowing them to meet business demands by getting new functionality into production faster. The accelerator is implemented using the well-defined yet flexible STAR™ process to reduce defects and increase user confidence.

“Integration of Mercury Quality Center and InfoStretch SSA*STAR Accelerator helps customers deliver high-quality applications,” said Rod Lehman, senior director of alliances marketing at Mercury. “The integration will help customers involve the right business stakeholders, at the right time in the development process, to help customers reach the right business outcomes.”

More information about SSA*STAR™ Accelerator solution from Infostretch is available at http://www.infostretch.com/Solutions/SSAErpTesting.htm

ABOUT THE MERCURY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM
The Mercury Technology Alliance Program is designed to enable technology and software vendors to develop integrations with Mercury BTO Enterprise™ products for IT governance, application delivery and application management. Complementary products from companies in the Mercury Technology Alliance Program include: application servers, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), system and network management applications and many others.

About InfoStretch Corporation

IInfoStretch is an emerging leader in outsourced Software Quality and Assurance and Software Process Optimization services. As a dynamic and innovative organization InfoStretch delivers high-quality, reliable, and cost effective services to clients throughout the US and Asia. InfoStretch specializes in delivering outsourced business solutions that command deep technology knowledge, process proficiency, and domain expertise.

InfoStretch is well positioned to help customers protect their brand by leveraging technology and higher quality work. With the increased complexity of software-based applications, testing has become very complex and specialized. InfoStretch provides unbiased solutions using objective quality metrics as an independent (third-party) Validation & Verification (IV&V) company, achieving unprecedented levels of quality for outsourced projects.

About SSAU 2005 User Conference - The 2005 SSAU Conference is the premier training and peer networking event for users of SSA Global solutions. The conference encompasses the latest in development news and new product information through a variety of channels. Through keynotes and educational sessions, representatives of SSA Global and other leading providers explain what’s available and what’s on the horizon for product functionality.

For further details contact:
Marketing and PR Officer, Tel: 408-727-1100, Fax: 408-716-2461, email: marketing@infostretch.com

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