Systems In Motion and Zephyr Team Up to Offer Powerful Inshore Test Management Solutions

Online, December 15, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Systems In Motion's Inshore software testing services will use Zephyr's cloud based comprehensive test management platform offering the most flexible and cost-effective testing solution to progressive IT and product development organizations.

Fremont, CA and Ann Arbor, MI (December, 2009) - Systems In Motion today announced its partnership with Zephyr, the creators of the world's most flexible test management platform. Systems In Motion, a pioneer in delivering the most efficient domestic 'Inshore' IT service model, sees this partnership with Zephyr as a significant value-add for its customers.

With this partnership, Systems In Motion customers will now have access to Zephyr's comprehensive test management platform, based around the concept of Testing Desktops & Dashboards, which enable enterprises to effectively manage test resources, testing projects, releases, requirements, test cases, scheduling, test execution, defects, documents, automation, collaboration, metrics and reporting.

Zephyr's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform offers every customer a hosted dedicated Test Management System, ensuring cost effective and faster time-to-value enterprise-class capabilities. Customers across various industries using Zephyr products have reported 70 per cent savings on their overall resource and infrastructure costs and a 40 per cent increase in overall productivity.

Systems In Motion's Inshore Testing Services model gives these customers the added benefit of greater proximity and alignment with development teams and business stakeholders.

Both System In Motion and Zephyr follow a cloud-based, on-demand service model - which transition customer processes onto standards based, real-time, web-native infrastructure.

Systems In Motions CEO, Neeraj Gupta, says "Systems In Motion's customers look to us not only for greater efficiency in testing service, but to help them transition to on-demand service models that reduce their overall investment in resources and infrastructure. Zephyr's real-time, web-native test management platform does exactly that".

Zephyr's CEO, Samir Shah noted that "The Inshore service delivery model solves a very big challenge for our US customers. By eliminating communication and time-zone barriers between teams, Systems In Motion's testing services adds significant value to customers who buy the Zephyr Test Management platform".

ABOUT SYSTEMS IN MOTION
Systems In Motion is an IT Services company with primary service delivery capabilities in Ann Arbor, MI. The firm is driving the development of a uniquely cost efficient "Inshore" IT services model that combines best practices of global service delivery with local implementation capabilities. Systems In Motion's operational expertise, coupled with investments in service development tools, accelerates the deployment of business-aligned IT. Key services delivered include design, development, implementation, testing and support for technology products, applications and IT Infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.systemsinmotion.com

ABOUT ZEPHYR
Zephyr is an on-demand, cloud based Test Management Platform offering innovative applications and unparalleled, metrics based visibility via real time dashboards into the quality and status of software projects. The feature rich solution addresses today's dynamic and global needs across a variety of industries including finance, healthcare, mobile, IT services, and enterprise software. Zephyr's global customers experience improved productivity, faster time to market and dramatic cost savings. For more information, please visit www.getzephyr.com