Micro Focus Testing Solutions Help iPass Deliver Quality and Always-on Connectivity to Enterprise Mobile Workers

Rockville, MD, August 10, 2011

According to Gartner, worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 1.6 billion units in 2010, a 31.8 percent increase from 2009. As a result, more and more mobile devices are entering the enterprise, which creates the monumental challenge of supporting new operating system versions, network interface cards and network service partnerships. Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced that iPass Inc., a leading provider of enterprise mobility services, has adopted solutions from Micro Focus to automate regression testing alongside traditional quality assurance (QA) processes.

By deploying Micro Focus SilkTest and SilkPerformer, iPass is ensuring its customers receive excellent levels of service in the face of massive complexity and its QA operations team can focus its qualitative testing efforts on new innovations that drive competitive advantage.

“Providing enterprises with real-time cost, security, and policy enforcement at the point of connection means that there is enormous complexity across our environment,” said Blair Bullock, director of technology integration at iPass. “We benefit from the derived-object data driven approaches that we’ve developed on Silk that allow us to rapidly organize the combinations of operating system, architecture, language, network, and device that our QA process requires. Once defined and organized into functional component plans within Silk, we can add new networks or new devices easily – and SilkTest does the rest.”

The multifaceted and expanding testing landscape for enterprise mobility services has made solely manual testing unfeasible. With increasing requirements to support new operating system versions, languages and network service partnerships, it is critical to strike the right balance between manual and automated testing while defining innovative automation test procedures and approaches for use in live network mobility scenarios. With SilkTest and SilkPerformer, Micro Focus enables iPass to achieve greater agility in its testing and quality assessment, accelerating time to market for high quality new products and features.

“As mobile device platforms proliferate within the enterprise, mobility solution providers must find ways to deliver highly complex solutions to customers at a faster pace,” explained Rich Novak, Micro Focus President, North America. “The exemplary use of Silk by iPass is just one example of how we are helping enterprises outpace the building momentum of today’s mobility trend. In fact, the business advantages that Silk provides are felt right across iPass operations.”

To read more about how iPass is using Silk, see: iPass case history

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernisation, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.

Nahidur Rahman
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