BDO Seidman inks agreement to distribute SQA's industry-leading Windows client/server testing tools; BDO Seidman will distribute SQA Suite, consulting, and training services.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1996--SQA(R), Inc., the leader in automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. of Windows client/server applications, and BDO Seidman BDO Seidman, LLP is the United States arm of BDO International, one of the largest accounting firms outside of the Big Four. History BDO Seidman, LLP was founded as Seidman and Seidman in New York City in 1910 by Maximillian L. Seidman. , LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , the U.S. member firm of the world's seventh largest accounting and consulting organization, today announced the signing of an agreement whereby BDO Seidman, LLP will distribute SQA's full line of automated testing solutions and training and consulting services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The two companies also delivered a joint seminar series on the benefits of using SQA SQA Scottish Qualifications Authority SQA Software Quality Assurance SQA Supplier Quality Assurance SQA Society of Quality Assurance SQA Singapore Airlines SQA Sperm Quality Analyzer SQA System Quality Assurance SQA Statistical Quality Analysis Suite for testing enterprise-wide client/server applications in August. As an SQA Enterprise Partner, BDO Seidman, LLP will distribute SQA's entire line of automated client/server testing solutions for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Windows 95, and Windows 3.x client/server applications. BDO Seidman, LLP can also provide value-added consulting and training services to its end users. The SQA Enterprise Partner Program has been established by SQA to attract the leading resellers, OEMs, authorized training partners, and consulting organizations in the client/server industry. "SQA is excited to have a firm of BDO Seidman, LLP's caliber distributing our products," said Ron Nordin, SQA's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our industry-leading automated testing solutions are ideal for BDO Seidman, LLP's customers who need to ensure the quality of their client/server applications. BDO Seidman, LLP is a world leader in the consulting industry, and SQA looks forward to a mutually-beneficial relationship where the biggest winners are the developers of enterprise-level client/server applications." "SQA is an acknowledged leader in Windows client/server testing," said Gary Wetstein, chairman of BDO Seidman, LLP, "and this agreement underscores our commitment to helping our customers deliver the highest-quality client/server applications. We chose to work with SQA because we feel their testing solutions offer a great deal for our customers, including innovations like SQA's Object Testing technology, an industrial-strength test repository, and the industry's only formal testing methodology. We look forward to delivering these world-class quality solutions to our customers." SQA Suite delivers seamlessly-integrated testing for enterprise client/server applications developed for all versions of Windows - Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 3.x. Built on the industry's only scalable server-based network test repository, SQA Suite combines leading-edge client/server testing power, comprehensive management tools, and a formal methodology to set the standard for testing Windows client/server applications. Comprised of four leading-edge products from SQA - the SQA Process testing methodology; SQA Manager for test planning and defect management; SQA Robot for test script generation and execution; and SQA LoadTest for load, stress and multi-user testing - SQA Suite delivers end-to-end testing of both the client and server sides of a client/server application. About BDO Seidman BDO Seidman, LLP has 40 offices located throughout the United States. It is the U.S. member firm of BDO BDO Big Day Out (Australian music festival) BDO Banco de Oro (Philippines) BDO 1,4-Butanediol BDO British Darts Organisation BDO Block Development Officer BDO Big Dumb Object , the world's seventh largest accounting and consulting organization with 462 member firm offices in 69 countries and approximately 17,000 partners and staff. About SQA, Inc. SQA, Inc., (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SQAX), is the leader in automated testing of Windows client/server applications. SQA has received more industry awards than any other testing solution, winning the PC Week Labs Corporate IT Excellence (ITX ITX Isopropylthioxanthone ITX Intermediate Text Block ITX Interactive Transaction Executive ITX Indian Text Exchange ) Award, PC Week Labs Analyst Choice Award, the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal Product Excellence Award twice, the 1994 and 1995 DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Readers Choice Award, and three Software Development Productivity Awards. SQA offers information about SQA's products and services via the World Wide Web at http://www.sqa.com. CONTACTS: Edward J. Gaudet SQA Inc. 617/229-3629 egaudet@sqa.com or Rick McLaughlin Lois Paul and Partners 617/238-5752 rick_mclaughlin@lpp.com or Mike Mullen BDO Seidman, LLP 310/557-8223 mmullen@bdo.com |
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