LDRA opens direct R&D, sales and support in India

ESC India 2010, WIRRAL, UK: LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has announced the opening of an office in Bangalore, India.

As the eleventh largest world economy, India has become a cornerstone in LDRA’s growth strategy. LDRA will provide research and development, front-line sales and technical support to customers in key markets such as aerospace, defense, nuclear, rail, consulting, and education/research as well as extending LDRA’s technology into developing markets.

“With its enormous technology growth, India has become a key player in today’s economy and delivers a significant portion of today’s software,” noted Ian Hennell, LDRA Operations Director. “More and more studies indicating the correlation of software quality and solid corporate profitability. Because of this, India’s developers are seeking the automated software test and requirements traceability that LDRA has become known for.”

Thanks to LDRA’s extensive standards and certification coverage, developers in India can meet whatever coding standards and certification processes are required for specific industry using the LDRA tool suite.

As well, LDRA’s strong distributed capabilities ensure that code developed in India is automatically part of the overall requirements traceability, analysis and verification needed for the overall system, regardless of whether the OEM is based in the United States, Europe or India.

From this point on, all LDRA business in India will transition to LDRA Technology Pvt Ltd. Operations and Sales Director Shinto Joseph, a seasoned veteran in critical software development is commissioned with developing the market in India as well as managing local research and development, sales and support staff. The India office will be integrated into LDRA’s global team, ensuring they have direct access to the worldwide business and technical benefits that LDRA’s team have developed over the past thirty-five years. The India office will also focus on safety-, mission-, security- and business- critical markets.

LDRA will celebrate the opening of its new India office at Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) India from July 21-23 in Booth B9. A requirements specialist from the new office will present the paper, “Mind the Gap: Can You Trace Your Requirements?”

The presentation shows how developers can achieve requirements traceability through all stages of the software development lifecycle from requirements through design, coding, analysis, verification and certification.

LDRA provides a fully automated end-to-end solution for software verification support, which enables companies to trace, verify, and test their code through all stages of software development from requirements through static and dynamic analysis and testing.

By tailoring standardised best-programming practices for cross-industry adoption, LDRA extends the cost- and resource-savings advantages to the embedded industry as a whole. LDRA’s worldwide quality management systems ISO 9001:2008 and certified processes show LDRA’s continual commitment to serving customers.