Princeton, New Jersey December 10, 2008 Intelligroup Inc., today announced that it has joined HP's Quality Management Ecosystem program. As an HP Gold Business Partner, Intelligroup works closely with HP Software to extend the offerings around Quality Center 10.0. Intelligroup has developed a solution offering with HP that enables customers to upgrade while optimizing their testing activities, reducing costs and improving quality. This solution is built utilizing Intelligroup's SAP upgrade assessment and execution tool, Uptimizer, and HP Quality Center. Intelligroup is also collaborating with HP to deliver automated testing solutions to customers that have implemented Oracle applications.
"Our proprietary tool, Uptimizer, allows for automated impact analysis, risk based testing coverage definition, prioritization of testing activities, and remediation of impact areas, combined with a global delivery model provides cost savings of as much as 40 percent compared to traditional/manual ways of upgrading and testing," said Deepak Bhatter, Director, Testing and GRC Practice. "Intelligroup is a Gold Partner of HP Software, and we resell as well as implement the Testing products of HP Software over the application life cycle."
Intelligroup helps customers establish Testing Centers of Excellence, formulate testing strategies and implement testing automation frameworks and solutions. Intelligroup's differentiators include an understanding of business processes, testing accelerators, strong ERP knowledge as well as deep industry knowledge. For example, in the area of Life Sciences, Intelligroup helps customers with systems validation and testing in a regulated environment.
"Organizations need to take a smart approach to managing the application lifecycle to reduce cost and risk," said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products, Software and Solutions, HP. "Intelligroup's services complement HP Quality Center to help customers modernize their applications to better meet the needs of the business now and in the future."
Intelligroup's testing customers include KLA Tencor, Cox Media, Varian Medical, among others.
About Intelligroup, Inc.
Intelligroup is an ERP-focused enterprise applications systems integrator providing consulting, implementation, testing, application management and other IT services for global corporations. The Company possesses deep expertise and proprietary tools in industry-specific enterprise solutions and has been recognized by clients, partners including SAP and Oracle and IT industry analysts for consistently exceeding expectations. Intelligroup won the 2007 global annual Pinnacle Award from SAP, was a finalist in Oracle 2007 Titan Awards, and was recognized by NASSCOM as a Top 100 Innovator. Intelligroup's global service delivery model combines onsite teams and offshore development capabilities to deliver solutions that accelerate results, reduce costs and generate meaningful ROI for clients. Intelligroup clients include Varian Medical, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Greenland, SAP, Magellan, Hershey's, Eastman Chemical and Hitachi. For more information please visit
www.intelligroup.com.
About Almac Clinical Services
Almac Clinical Services is a global company focused on clinical trial supply solutions, with sites in Craigavon (UK), Audubon (PA, USA) and Durham (NC, USA). Almac Clinical Services enable clients to meet their trial start dates by leveraging skilled and experienced personnel coupled with robust quality systems and operational flexibility. Services provided include blinding, packaging, labelling, global distribution, QP release, analytical testing, drug supply management and online randomisation.
About Almac
The Almac Group comprises five closely integrated divisions offering a broad range of services from R&D, translational genomic services, API manufacture, product development, clinical trial supply and technology (IVRS/EDC), to commercial-scale manufacture. Almac provides services to over 600 companies including all the world leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
The company has over 2,200 employees and is headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. US operations are based in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California. Construction of the company's new $100m North American Headquarters started in July 08 and is expected to be completed 2010.
To find out more about Almac visit
www.almacgroup.com.
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Marketing
Pat Gray
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Intelligroup Inc.
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