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EDS acquires RelQ Software
By siliconindia
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Monday, 12 March 2007, 17:30 IST
PLANO: EDS, a technology services company, has announced to acquire RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately owned Bangalore based software testing company. Over time, all of RelQ's more than 700 employees in India, the United Kingdom, the United States and France RelQ will be fully integrated into EDS' global testing organization
The transaction is expected to close in May 2007. Key elements of the acquisition would include all of RelQ's service offerings in the areas of strategic test consulting, functional testing, near- release testing, test automation, post-release testing and extreme testing.
This acquisition will help EDS expand our customer base by accelerating and uplifting our software testing capabilities, thereby giving us a significant competitive advantage in the deployment of enterprise applications platforms and services for our clients.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"We are pleased that EDS is acquiring the capabilities and expertise of RelQ and its employees to better serve the needs of our combined client base,? said Dr. Prakash Mutalik, president and CEO, RelQ
RelQ is certified ISO 9001-2000 software testing company-serving clients primarily in the banking, financial services, and telecom and consumer electronics industries. The company has also obtained British security certification standards (BS7799).