SOPRA GROUP WINS TRIPLE STAR AWARD FORMOST INNOVATIVE CONTRIBUTION TO EUROSTAR 2009

Published 10th December 2009

Edinburgh, 10/12/2009 – Sopra Group has won the prestigious Triple Star Award at this year’s EuroSTAR conference – the premier event for the European software testing community. This annual award is presented to the speaker who can demonstrate the most original, innovative, reusable and pragmatic contribution to the event.

Neil Pandit is one of Sopra Group’s Senior Test Consultants and a first-time speaker at EuroSTAR. His winning presentation “A Visual Approach to Risk-Based Integration Testing” provided a fresh innovative take on the topic and proved a winner with the EuroSTAR delegates, who were responsible for evaluating the nominees.

Every year the EuroSTAR conference brings together a wide range of industry experts from across the globe to present on the latest developments in software testing. This year’s event featured more than sixty presenters, and with nominees selected from across the programme, competition for the Triple Star Award was incredibly stiff. The award was presented to Neil at the EuroSTAR awards ceremony at the official close of the conference.

"I was very pleased to be selected to present at an event like EuroSTAR, and to actually win this award has been just fantastic, particularly as it's based on the delegates' choice; I really look forward to speaking at next EuroSTAR," explained Neil Pandit.

Richard Mort, Head of Sopra Group's UK Testing Practice commented "we've been providing a wide range of testing solutions for over twenty years and are delighted that our innovative approach to global testing solutions continues to be recognised."

The EuroSTAR conference has been running for over 15 years and is widely recognised as the most successful European software testing conference, as well as the key training and education event in the European testing calendar. Around 600 delegates attended this year’s event which was held in Stockholm from 30th November – 3rd December 2009.
About EuroSTAR (www.eurostarconferences.co.uk)

EuroSTAR is Europe's premier software testing event and this year’s conference (the 17th annual event) was held in Stockholm between 30th November and 4th December. EuroSTAR is the largest annual testing event staged in Europe. The Triple Star Award is sponsored annually by Logica and presented to the speaker who can demonstrate the most original contribution to the event, ie the most innovative, reusable and pragmatic contribution.

About Sopra Group
A leader in the European consulting and IT services market, Sopra Group generated revenue of 1.129 billion euros in 2008 and has a human and intellectual resource potential of over 12,000 people. Thanks to a longstanding culture of excellence and strong sector-specific, functional and technological know-how, the Group offers its clients an end to end approach based on a well-honed business model. Sopra Group’s ambition is to allow its clients to focus on transformation projects that will give them a competitive edge and help them drive growth. Sopra Group’s savoir-faire encompasses prior strategic reflection through to the supervision and implementation of major systems integration and application outsourcing projects. The Group also pursues the worldwide deployment of its activities in both application integration and business process management through its subsidiary Axway, a leading provider of Collaborative Business Solutions, with a complete range of solutions and services. For more information, please go to our website www.sopragroup.com.

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