EOH subsidiary Gallium aims to take its application testing ability offshore to expand the business.
MD Haydn Pinnell says application testing is a huge growth area for the application lifecycle company, and already accounts for 60% of its business.
Pinnell adds that Gallium provides pre-launch and live testing. It probes the application for vulnerabilities, such as whether it will fall over when it goes live, at which stage it will become overloaded, and whether the application functions as it should. Testing also includes analysing if the application meets the purpose for which it was intended.
Software the company tests includes Oracle, SAP and HP.
Demand for application testing is expected to grow in the next year-and-a-half to two years, and Gallium wants to offer offshore testing to companies in Europe. It has already picked up a contract with a UK-based company to test its SAP system, Pinnell adds.
SA can compete in this area as it is in the right time zone, and can be as cost-competitive as India is. However, at the moment, offshore testing is a fledgling area for the company, Gallium says.
Pinnell anticipates that - over the next few years - revenue from offshore testing will match that of its South African operations. “Testing is going to be a major growth area for us in the next two years.”
Gallium is involved in managing applications from the start of the lifecycle, which includes taking the company's requirements into consideration, right through planning and implementation, notes Pinnell.
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