NEWS
Gartner awards
high product
scores to CA
Technologies
Enterprise applications
company appoints new CEO
Andrea Lodolo, CTO, CA Southern Africa
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A Technologies has received the highest
product scores for both the continuous
testing and API/web service testing use cases
in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Software
Test Automation report. Gartner’s research
assessed 10 software test automation tools
for five uses cases, two of which CA achieved
the highest score, as well as the second
highest score for end-to-end testing.
“To thrive in the application economy,
companies need to delight their customers
with an outstanding user experience, which
is a direct result of DevOps adoption and the
use of continuous testing across the software
development lifecycle,” said Andrea Lodolo,
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CA Southern
Africa. “We feel that continuous testing is
critical to building a modern software factory
to help organisations deliver better apps
faster, and in our view, Gartner’s valuation
validates CA’s industry leadership in delivering
end-to-end continuous testing solutions.”
In the report, Gartner recommends that
application leaders who are responsible for
modernising development, ‘implement an
open testing strategy and choose tools that
offer support for open-source frameworks
and APIs as well as cloud delivery to
maximise available knowledge and
flexibility.’ “We feel that CA Technologies’
leadership in continuous testing, coupled
with Wipro’s leadership in quality
engineering services brings significant
synergies to enable success for our
customers in their continuous testing journey
and their digital transformation, added Arun
Melkote, Global Head of Quality Engineering
and Testing Services at Wipro.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Darren Roos, the
new CEO of IFS
lobal enterprise applications company
IFS has hired Darren Roos as its new
Chief Executive Officer. His appointment
was effective from April 1 and follows the
retirement of Alastair Sorbie. G “I plan to bring my experience and skills
specifically around scaling companies,
building cloud businesses, and
establishing high-performing teams to
enable IFS to continue to flourish.
Roos is a proven enterprise software
leader, with a track-record for
establishing and scaling global software
businesses. Most recently, he was
President of SAP’s Cloud ERP business,
and prior to that, significantly grew
Software AG’s international operations,
which enabled the company to triple in
size during his tenure. “I’m looking forward to meeting and
engaging with the 3,500 women and
men who have built this business and
the 10,000 customers and partners who
make it great.”
“I am excited and privileged to lead IFS
in this next chapter,” said Roos. “IFS is
an incredible business. The combination
of its strong ERP heritage, leadership in
EAM and FSM and exemplary customer
satisfaction gives it the perfect platform
to play a dominant role in the enterprise
software industry.
Per Franzen, partner at EQT (the owner
of IFS), added: “Darren’s experience,
knowledge and proven track record of
building successful businesses in the
markets where IFS operates make him a
great choice as CEO.
“The appointment of Darren comes
at a time when IFS has a real
opportunity to generate further
momentum in the sector and extend
its leadership position.”
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