New York Stock Exchange-listed IBM is buying software quality and testing company Green Hat for an undisclosed amount.
The company, which made the announcement yesterday, says Green Hat will join IBM's Rational Software business.
IBM notes that when Green Hat is combined with its Rational Solution for collaborative life cycle management, “developers and testers can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and collaboration while delivering quality software to their business”.
Green Hat enables developers to leverage cloud computing technologies to conduct testing on software before delivery.
The company operates globally and offers automated testing for systems that rely on cloud, Web services, messaging, services-oriented architecture, enterprise service bus, business process management, complex event processing, SAP and other distributed technologies.
Its clients come from sectors such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation and the energy industry.
“This acquisition extends IBM's leadership in driving business agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk,” says Kristof Kloeckner, GM of IBM Rational.
Founded in 1996, Green Hat is jointly headquartered in London, England and Wilmington, Delaware. It creates a virtual environment that simulates a wide range of IT infrastructure elements.
The continuous test environment enables developers and quality professionals to test software earlier and more frequently throughout the software development life cycle, says IBM in a statement.
The Green Hat software testing solutions will also be offered through IBM Global Business Services' Application Management Services (AMS). IBM AMS provides strategy, design, implementation, testing and managed services for application virtualisation to accelerate customer results.
Michael Azoff, principal analyst at Ovum, says Green Hat will complement IBM's existing application life cycle management tools portfolio, by providing a capability to rapidly set up test labs for complex heterogeneous systems, spanning mainframe to distributed environments, including cloud and mobile.
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