MCI Systemhouse and SQA join forces to deliver best-of-breed quality assurance solutions worldwide; MCI Systemhouse will distribute SQA's award-winning Windows client/server testing solutions; agreement also covers training and consulting 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 MCI Systemhouse MCI Systemhouse , a subsidiary of Washington, DC-based MCI Communications Corporation, was the result of the merger of Canadian company SHL Systemhouse with MCI's technical services branch. The new company was formed to provide systems integration and outsourcing services. , a leading worldwide system integrator, today announced an agreement whereby MCI Systemhouse will distribute 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(tm), SQA's industry-leading suite of integrated client/server testing tools in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The agreement also provides for SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) Systemhouse, an MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. Company, to distribute SQA's products and services outside of the United States. SHL Systemhouse has offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Argentina. As an SQA Enterprise Partner, MCI Systemhouse and SHL Systemhouse will distribute SQA's entire line of automated client/server testing solutions for Windows client/server applications. They can also provide value-added consulting and training services to their 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. "MCI Systemhouse is a recognized leader in developing and deploying large-scale client/server applications for their customers," said Ron Nordin, 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. of SQA, "and SQA Suite is ideally suited for testing these applications. With a worldwide presence through MCI Systemhouse in the United States and SHL Systemhouse in the international market, MCI Systemhouse is able to provide support for even the largest client/server development projects. SQA looks forward to working with MCI Systemhouse to help their customers implement effective automated testing for their client/server applications." "SQA is a recognized leader in the automated testing of Windows client/server applications," said Harvey Weaver, director of worldwide alliances. "Our customers are developing and deploying increasingly complex client/server applications, and they need a reliable testing solution that will address their needs, now and in the future. SQA Suite is a leading-edge, integrated solution that delivers end-to-end testing of a client/server applications. MCI Systemhouse is committed to delivering only the best solutions for client/server development and deployment, and SQA's products and services offer a leading solution for automated client/server testing." SQA Suite delivers seamlessly-integrated testing for enterprise client/server applications developed for all versions of Windows - 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 Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
About MCI Systemhouse MCI Systemhouse is a recognized leader in enabling business transformation through client/server computing and is widely credited with having defined the TRANSFORMATIONAL OUTSOURCING service market. MCI Systemhouse employs more than 6,000 professionals who serve major commercial and public sector clients in North and South America, Europe and Asia. 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 Corporate IT Excellence 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. SQA can be contacted at SQA, Inc., One Burlington Woods, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803. 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 |
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