Primeur Chooses Green Hat To Guarantee
The Quality Of Middleware Integration

Thanks to this partnership Primeur is extending its skills
on quality control in EAI and SOA projects, safeguarding
business critical applications

Genoa, July 12th 2010 - Primeur, an Italian multinational company by that has from the start proposed its own technologies in the field of middleware, has signed an agreement with Green Hat, a global company specialized in software for the automation and management of testing of complex integration projects. Thanks to this partnership Primeur is able to enrich its offer of technological solutions dedicated governing the software life cycle with a product for the definition and management of automatic testing specifically for SOA and BPM integration projects.

For guarantee an adequate service level on complex applications based on modern integration platforms and buses, Primeur combines its own project skills with the use of innovative solutions, capable of facilitating and optimizing all the test and trial phases of the entire infrastructure. EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), BPM and, more recently, Cloud technologies, provide for the integration of different types of platforms, on whose interaction the business process is based. The Green Hat suite is integrated with the various technologies in these environments and allows total "end to end" visibility and validation of the correct operation of the entire processing flow.

"We are pleased to be collaborating with a strategic partner like Green Hat, whose excellent technology complements our range of tools for controlling the quality of infrastructures and services in the area of middleware" - said Edoardo Musso, President and CEO of Primeur.

"We know the differences in testing requirements associated with integration, BPM and governance platforms. - stated Madeline Bayliss, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships of Green Hat - Green Hat designs specific functionality and process into the solutions for each vendor to assure lifecycle coverage including unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, simulation and run time testing".

The traditional solutions for testing applications focus on the correct function of graphical interfaces (GUI - Graphical User Interfaces). In integration projects and applications based on SOA architectures, graphical interfaces are only tip of the iceberg in the system. Most of the complexity occurs in the interaction between the various services that make up the application, and is extremely difficult to control such dynamics. For BPM, GUIs become integrated as the points of human interaction along a long-running process so these tests must be run alongside tests of the middleware, messaging and BPM technologies.

To automate testing of these projects it is necessary to check the behavior of all the services invoked, any dependencies related to them, in addition to checking performance along the entire application flow. Each execution may require different services on different platforms using multiple technologies and involving several organizations. To effectively govern this process, it is therefore necessary to check how many and which services are involved, and for each of these to verify that the result obtained matches the expected result. Simulation is used to substitute for unavailable systems and create virtualised environments for testing.

Customers using technologies from IBM, Oracle, SAP, Software AG and TIBCO now can turn to Primeur to improve their application lifecycle agility, quality and productivity. Thanks to Green Hat, Primeur deal efficiently and effectively with testing activities on the most complex integration infrastructures, thereby safeguarding middleware-based business-critical applications.

Primeur
Primeur is a multinational company and one of the main producers of middleware solutions for distributed and heterogeneous IT systems. Primeur is specialized in the management of company data, moving or static, both within and outside the organization. It is a leader in Secure Managed File Transfer, File Audit & Control and End-to-End Security. It also provides software and services for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), communication middleware, legacy application integration and data security. With more than 500 customers worldwide - including large companies operating in the areas of Finance, Industry and Services - it has branches and distributors in Europe, United States of America, South America and Asia Pacific.

Green Hat
Green Hat is a global testing technology leader with a Global 2000 customer base. Green Hat makes automated testing simple for complex systems relying on Web Services, messaging, SOA, ESB, BPM, CEP, governance and virtualization including technologies from IBM, Oracle, SAP, Software AG, and TIBCO. Automate now. Make business better. Learn more at www.greenhat.com.