BANGALORE: As Indian IT companies begin to provide end-to-end solutions to the global outsourcing market, an international market leader in testing tools is looking at increased allocation in the IT expenditure of firms. "We are expecting sales of testing products to go up to $ one to 1.5 million this year with even large enterprises testing their web interfaces to avert any loss," says Devesh Agarwal, managing director of Infomart (India). The Bangalore-based Infomart has been appointed as the master distributor for Compuware Corporation, the global leader in end-to-end testing products, consolidating a decade-old partnership in the Indian market. "Some years ago, we had to go from one IT company to another to sell one of our product ranges. Today we don't go. Instead, our focus has shifted to corporates," adds Agarwal. Rorey Rogers, managing director (Asia South), Compuware Asia-Pacific, explains with an example. "A major bank in one of the Asian countries lost a million dollars or more because end-to-end testing of its software had not been done." The increase in demand for end-to-end testing tools is intrinsically linked to companies finding that increasing productivity has helped face the pressure on margins during the last 12-18 months, the worst period of the economic slowdown. "Testing tools used to constitute just 0.2 per cent of the IT spend of companies. It started with the Y2K problem and today, it has gone up to two per cent of the total IT expenditure of companies," says Rogers. India has also become a major destination for global corporates getting their software tested. "A major transportation company got its entire software tested in India recently," said Rogers. "Indian software companies are now developing a quality methodology after the development methodology created the brand image," added Agarwal.
Source: IANS