iTKO Repeats ''SD Times 100'' Honors for 2006

Business Wire, June 1, 2006

DALLAS -- Technology publisher BZ Media today named SOA software testing vendor iTKO, Inc. to the SD Times magazine's "2006 SD Times 100" list. This is the second consecutive year for iTKO, the producers of LISA automated testing software, to win this award.

The 4th annual SD Times 100, published in the June 1, 2006 issue of BZ Media's SD Times, recognizes the leaders and innovators of the software development industry. The 2006 SD Times 100 also will be posted to the sdtimes.com Web site today.

iTKO was a winner in the "Test, QA & Performance Management" category of the awards issue. The SD Times citation reads: "Who knows Java? LISA knows Java. She knows where your J2EE code's good, where it's bad, and where it really sucks. And she'll make it suck less."

"The winners of this year's SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry," said David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times. "We took into account each nominee's products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we've identified as helping to move the art of development forward."

iTKO's flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 3 Complete SOA Test Platform, allows the entire team, including development, QA, support and business analysts, to deeply test the multiple technologies that make up today's Internet-based business software. In addition to Java software and J2EE servers, LISA can test web sites, web services, .NET, messaging layers, databases and more, using a common application that takes the manual testing and test coding out of the process for maximum efficiency.

"It's like deja vu all over again," said Jason English, iTKO's VP of corporate marketing. "For iTKO LISA to make SD Times' SD Times 100 last year was appreciated, but to show up in the SD Times SD Times 100 again in 2006 is twice as nice."

About BZ Media LLC and SD Times

BZ Media LLC (www.bzmedia.com) is a New York-based media company combining the best of print and Internet publishing with industry-leading technical conferences and expositions.

BZ Media's SD Times (www.sdtimes.com) is the twice-monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 55,000 subscribers in 131 countries.

About iTKO, Inc.

iTKO Inc., delivers solutions that increase software quality while reducing business risk. The Dallas-based company's software ensures that every layer of business software, including Web sites, web services, databases, middleware and Java applications continually perform and meet requirements. iTKO's LISA 3 Complete SOA Testing Platform automates functional, regression and load test creation and execution, requiring no coding to deeply test Web sites and back-end systems. In addition, iTKO's easy-to-use tools can be leveraged by the business team, development team and quality assurance team, enabling the entire organization to "own" quality. Founded as an enterprise software development group in 1999, the privately held company serves a variety of clients that need to ensure software quality at high transaction volume, including Cendant, Sun, EMC, MetaSolv and Versata. http://www.itko.com