HCL Technologies Launches SOA Competency Center For Retailers At NRF 2008

HCL Technologies Ltd on January 15, 2008 announced the launch of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Competency Center for Retailers at this weeks National Retail Federation Convention. The competency center is designed to guide retailers in the areas of SOA tool selection, development methodology and project execution, leveraging an industry-specific set of services and the deep expertise of HCL team members in areas relevant to SOA and BPM.SOA and BPM testing are very complex, time-consuming processes due to inadequate, legacy homegrown frameworks, said Vikram Duvvoorl, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Middleware & SOA Practice, HCL Technologies. As they require a fresh perspective towards development, testing, security and other aspects of project life cycle, HCL has focused on accelerating the process for our retail customers through specific tools and technologies for testing and security for SOA applications.Specifically, one of HCLs solution frameworks, HCLs xFIT, addresses testing and security problems retailers will face when implementing SOA and BPM. With HCLs xFIT framework to manage and automate SOA and services testing, Companies can more easily develop, orchestrate and maintain distributed test cases. The framework offers multi-platform support (UNIX, LINUX, AIX and Windows), is lightweight and minimally intrusive, and is also easy to learn and deploy. Furthermore, HCLs xFIT provides Companies with the ability to easily run test cases on multiple Systems under Test (SUT) configurations, leading to significant time savings. HCLs xFIT was built by HCL to enable integration testing, and has been successfully deployed in many customer locations to date.