Mentora Group Joins Sucid Integrator Alliance Program, Quality- and Testing-Focused Systems Integrator Enters SAP Market Using Sucid Test Automation Products

Sucid Corporation, the leader in SAP testing, today announced that Mentora Group has joined the Sucid Integrator Alliance Program. As a new alliance program partner, Mentora Group will use the Sucid test automation product line to deliver quality and testing services and solutions to SAP customers.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 15, 2005 -- Sucid Corporation, the leader in SAP testing, today announced that Mentora Group has joined the Sucid Integrator Alliance Program. As a new alliance program partner, Mentora Group will use the Sucid test automation product line to deliver quality and testing services and solutions to SAP customers.

Test automation holds great promise for protecting businesses from operational failures and the resulting costs. Mentora has been delivering quality, testing and test automation services to businesses in a number of markets for several years, but we have not entered the SAP market due to the complex and specific requirements of SAP applications, architecture and business processes," said Jim Eberle, CEO of Mentora.

Major SAP projects such as version upgrades, new module deployments and custom enhancements generate very large test budgets, often in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Most of this money is spent on repetitive manual testing by systems integrator consultants.

When the new system is moved into production, the consultants leave and the manual testing burden falls on the customers business analysts and business users who must continually re-run the same tests each time changes are made to the SAP system.

Test automation products have long held the promise of automating these tests, but often require cost prohibitive, complex and time-consuming script development and maintenance.

The Sucid product lines unique integration with the SAP environment gives us the tools to deliver cost-effective test automation services to SAP customers, truly fulfilling the promise of both reducing testing costs and ensuring business continuity," said Eberle.

Sucids products eliminate the need for test script development and maintenance, dramatically reducing the time and cost associated with SAP test automation. The Sucid Integrator Alliance Program is designed to enable systems integrators with strong SAP practice groups and/or strong quality and testing practices to combine their experienced people and proven processes with Sucids SAP test automation product line.

We are very pleased to welcome Mentora as a new Sucid partner," said David Wilson, President and CEO of Sucid Corporation. Mentora is an acknowledged expert in the field of test automation. Their selection of Sucid products for SAP testing further validates our differentiation in the SAP market, and we look forward to supporting Mentora as they roll out test automation services to customers throughout North America."

Under the partnering agreement, Mentora Group will provide a SaaS (Software as a Service) license to the Sucid products combined with the Mentora professional services needed to deliver a complete SAP testing solution tailored to each customers specific needs.

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For more information, please visit the Sucid website at http://www.sucid.com/?src=pr.

About Mentora Group
Mentora provides testing, hosting and monitoring for business applications to ensure quality throughout the system lifecycle. Mentora testing services include functional, load and security vulnerability testing; specializing in performance testing of Web and client-server applications and packaged ERP suites from Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft. Their custom application hosting services are located at AT&T's Northern VA Internet Data Center. Mentora powers its services with the tools and resources of carefully-selected partners – among them Sucid, Business Signatures, Mercury, and AT&T Data Centers. Mentora, a private company founded in 1994, is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in Boston and Washington DC. For more information please see www.mentora.com.

About Sucid
Sucid Corporation is the leading provider of SAP test automation products, services and solutions. Sucid products deliver SAP unit, integration, regression, load, stress, performance and security testing without the complexity and expense of test script development and maintenance. Sucid solutions enable SAP customers to continuously ensure SAP application quality and business continuity, significantly cut testing costs, reduce the time required for testing, and convert the test expenditure from a throw-away cost into a leveraged investment. Sucid Corporation is a private company based in Austin, Texas.

Contacts
David Wilson
Sucid Corporation
(512) 293-0843
pr@sucid.com
http://www.sucid.com/?src=pr

Jim Eberle
Mentora Group, Inc.
(404) 250-6515
jeberle@mentora.com
http://www.mentora.com/

Sucid(tm) is a trademark of Sucid Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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