"Customers want to mitigate any risk associated with the upgrade of their Microsoft technology environments through rapid and comprehensive insight into their application capability. The combination of HP's experience in helping customers with their Microsoft Vista migrations and the enhancements App-DNA has built into this new release of AppTitude allow us to quickly and cost-effectively help our customers manage their applications and determine where those applications fit best in a variety of possible environments."

Tom Norton, Practice Lead, Microsoft Services, HP

"Organizations that rely on the 'push-and-pray' approach to application compatibility testing - in which a few key apps are tested in advance while the remainder are deployed first and only tested when they fail - are doomed to fall behind their goals.

For most organizations, manual application testing, especially for large-scale changes like OS upgrades and desktop virtualization deployments, will never be sufficient. It is painstakingly slow and prohibitively expensive, so change planning ends up being haphazard and incomplete. Tools like AppTitude that bring a measure of automation to application testing hold a lot of promise for organizations that require much greater agility and lower costs.“

Andi Mann, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates

"Relying solely on manual application compatibility testing is expensive and impractical, especially for large-scale virtualization deployments, App-DNA's AppTitude solution helps automate the process, enabling our partners and customers to improve the way they test their application portfolio for compatibility issues. Gaining valuable insight into the impact of virtualization, application and operating system changes prior to production deployments is a significant benefit. We expect our partners to yield positive business benefits for every organization delivering applications via XenApp."

Bill Burley, vice president and general manager, Application Virtualization Group, Citrix Systems

"The ability to know in advance that applications are going to work, or if not, the activity required to make them work, is a real benefit to any application delivery project. With the move towards 64 bit technologies, Vista and Server 2008 to deliver applications I can see that this type of technology is essential."

Steve McGovern, Technical Director, Point to Point (Citrix Platinum Partner)

"AppTitude is helping us to improve the way we test our application portfolio for compatibility issues,"

Jeff Marshall, Head of Technology Operations King's College London, (one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher 2008) and the fourth oldest in England)