Surgient, the leader in Virtual Lab Management applications for software testing, training and evaluation, today announced that the Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS) is being resold by HP as a component of the HP Quality Center.

For more than a year, Surgient has been working with HP to deliver innovative quality management solutions to customers across the globe. The combined HP Quality Center and Surgient VQMS solution enables leading organizations to accelerate test cycles and reduce software delivery risk despite the rising complexity and rate-of-change of today’s enterprise applications.

"Our new ERP system forced a rebuild of 15,000 workstations and 2,000 client applications – a massive testing effort that threatened critical 2007 rollout milestones," said Chris Marr, lead systems engineer at Sisters of Mercy Health System. "Using HP Quality Center and Surgient VQMS to automate both the tests and test environment provisioning, we reduced the time to test a single application from 5 days to 4 hours and increased testing bandwidth 10 times without any additional test resources."

Surgient VQMS consolidates pre-production infrastructure and automates the provisioning of test configurations on-demand. HP Quality Center integration enables testers and testing tools to reliably request and securely access test configurations 24x7.

"HP Quality Center and Surgient VQMS offer enterprise organizations a powerful way to accelerate software development cycles and improve operational efficiency," said Erik Josowitz, vice president of product strategy at Surgient. "We’re proud HP chose VQMS to address the growing demand for test lab management, and we’re committed to building a long-term relationship that delivers ongoing value to our customers."

"Test lab automation is fast becoming an essential element of an enterprise quality management strategy because of the breakthrough gains in time and cost savings it delivers," said Jonathan Rende, vice president, Products, Software, HP. "We chose to resell Surgient VQMS based on the breadth of the solution and because it uniquely satisfies enterprise test lab requirements."

Surgient Presenting at HP Software Universe

As part of the Test Management track at HP Software Universe, taking place June 18 – 22 in Las Vegas, Surgient will co-present a breakout session with HP on how to accelerate quality management using virtual test labs.

• What: "Accelerating Quality Management with Enterprise Test Lab Management" will explain how virtual test labs shorten test cycles, increase coverage and reduce delivery risk. The session will explore how Surgient VQMS integrates with HP Quality Center to automate test environment setup and teardown, including compelling case studies and ROI metrics.
• Who: Marcus MacNeill, director of product strategy, Surgient, and Yrieix Garnier, senior product manager, HP
• When: Thursday, June 21st, 2:00pm
• Where: The Venetian, Las Vegas