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IBM acquires Green Hat

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Introducing Green Hat, a leader in integration testing and application virtualization

IBM to acquire Green Hat

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Green Hat’s product portfolio enables your organization to achieve greater agility and software quality by reducing cost, cycle time and risk being driven by software size and complexity. Through early and continuous integration testing and application virtualization for testing of services as well as application components, Green Hat offers the following benefits:

  • Drive down cost - Reduce labor, hardware, and software costs associated with delivering and maintaining complex test environments.

  • Improve cycle time - Reduce wasted time spent waiting on the availability of and setting up test environments.

  • Reduce risk - Reduce risk of big bang, late stage integration issues.

The Green Hat product portfolio enables your development teams to achieve greater velocity and deliver quality software and products at a reduced cost through:

  • Early and continuous integration testing – There is no need to wait for all of the software middleware and other components to be available, the to-be-available components can be simulated early in the process for testing purposes.

  • Virtualized test environment – You can accelerate the availability of your test environment with virtualization of services and applications currently offering built in support for over 70 technologies and protocols.

When combined with the IBM Rational solution for collaborative lifecycle management, developers and testers can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and collaboration while delivering quality software to their business. IBM and Green Hat can help customers maximize continuous integration of an application, including creating virtual protocols, message formats, services, customization and engagement with third-party software. Development teams can avoid scrap and rework and dramatically reduce costly delays while achieving greater business agility and accelerating the delivery of software applications.

Green Hat, an IBM company, provides the following products and product families:

For more information about Green Hat products and solutions, visit www.greenhat.com (link resides outside of ibm.com).