RTTS Presents Options for Performance Testing
	Test Experts Deliver Hardware, Software and Manpower In One Complete Solution
	New York, August 31, 2001 - RTTS, a leader in IT application and architecture testing since 1996, today announced they have expanded their relationship with Rational Software and the Rational Unified Partner Program (RUPP) as a Rational Test Bureau partner. Rational carefully selected highly experienced companies for inclusion in this program, enforcing rigid standards and ensuring that each group was thoroughly trained in Rational testing products.
	"The increase in web commerce and the rush for businesses to operate in an online environment has created a huge need for load, scalability and performance testing," said, Bill Hayduk, Director of Professional Service for RTTS. "Applications are no longer unique to a group of internal users of a company or a disparate, fragmented market. E-business has expanded the need and ability to reach an unprecedented audience of employees and/or customers. However, this wider audience creates new challenges regarding the ability of the architecture to support large numbers of concurrent users."
	The Rational Test Bureau program makes available the powerful benefits of Rational software testing tools without having to purchase, install or learn how to implement software tests. The huge expense of buying hardware and software, in addition to hiring and training the internal resources to implement testing, is greatly diminished. RTTS can conduct functional and performance testing on your site or off-site via the Web, using Rational Suite TestStudio . If needed, RTTS will provide all the hardware and infrastructure necessary to affordably meet a company's testing requirements, without sacrificing test coverage or dedicating valuable human resources. The result is reduced cost of ownership and complexity for RTTS' clients, while ensuring the highest quality application development.
	Outstanding consulting, training and support services complement a broad spectrum of superior alliance partnerships that RTTS has established to provide strengthening support to its clients' needs for application quality assurance. RTTS' relationship with Rational Software provides business solutions in training and consulting services through Rational's products in the requirements management, functional and performance testing, and defect/issue tracking space. "Companies like RTTS are critical to our mutual customers' success. With RTTS providing test bureau services, our customers have a viable, low cost alternative for testing their applications. RTTS brings years of Rational experience to customers with this new delivery vehicle," says Sunny Gupta, Director of Business Development at Rational.
	With many years of successful test implementations utilizing best of breed automated test tools, RTTS' client list reads like a "Who's Who" among the top financial, insurance, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and technology firms in the U.S. RTTS' comprehensive range of services includes functional, scalability and architecture testing, in addition to training and process improvement.
	With many years of successful test implementations utilizing best of breed automated test tools, RTTS' client list reads like a "Who's Who" among the top financial, insurance, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and technology firms in the U.S. RTTS' comprehensive range of services includes functional, scalability and architecture testing, in addition to training and process improvement.
	About RTTS: RTTS is a professional services organization that specializes in testing of IT applications and architecture. Serving Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies nationwide since 1996, RTTS has offices in New York and Boston. RTTS draws on its expertise utilizing best-of breed products, expert test engineers and proven methodology to provide the foremost end-to-end solution that ensures application functionality, reliability, scalability and network performance. To learn more about RTTS visit http://www.rtts.com.
	About the Rational Unified Partner Program: Rational Software Corporation, provides a platform for software development that speeds time-to-market while improving software quality. This integrated, full-lifecycle solution combines software engineering best practices, market-leading tools, and professional services to help organizations develop and deploy software. The Rational Unified Partner Program supports over 500 participating partners with tools, joint marketing opportunities, qualifications and training, to round out this open platform. The Rational Unified Partner Program ensures that our partner products and services meet the high standards that customers have come to expect from Rational. Companies and individual technology consultants interested in learning more about the Rational Unified Partner Program, including details on how to participate, can visit http://www.rational.com/partners/index.jsp.