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CheckFree Corporation Utilizes eFORCE Quality Management
Assessment for Improved Quality Assurance
Financial e-Commerce Leader Employs System Integrator's Quality Management
Service to Identify Optimal Global Quality Assurance Process
HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- eFORCE (http://www.eforceglobal.com/),
a leading provider of full lifecycle IT solutions leveraging the Global
Delivery Model, has announced a new client relationship under its Quality
Management Practice. CheckFree (NASDAQ:CKFR), a leading provider of financial
electronic commerce services and products, selected eFORCE to audit the
company's division-wide Software Quality Assurance (SQA) capabilities. The
audit will leverage the eFORCE proprietary SQA Assessment Framework(TM) to
optimize software engineering processes used by CheckFree's SQA Department,
consistent with the department's interaction with the company's extended
software development organization.
CheckFree provides comprehensive electronic billing and payment solutions that
enable over 15 million consumers to receive and pay bills online. CheckFree is
the service provider behind the electronic billing and payment services of more
than 1,400 banks, credit unions, brokerage sites and financial portals
including Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, SunTrust,
SouthTrust, NetBank, Charles Schwab, Yahoo! and MSN.
"CheckFree has applied Sigma quality methodology to financial services since
1999, with a company-wide commitment to operational efficiency and a high
quality customer experience, so the opportunity to further enhance our software
development and quality assurance processes was very attractive to us," said
Van Williams, senior vice president of Product Development, CheckFree. "Our
close collaboration with eFORCE, an expert in application development,
migration, integration and quality management, gives CheckFree access to key
advisory and auditing services, particularly in the area of quality best
practices."
eFORCE's SQA Assessment Framework, based on the industry standard TMM (Testing
Maturity Model) assessment methodology, will be used to audit CheckFree's
current SQA capabilities. Focused on streamlining the company's testing and
quality assurance systems, CheckFree and eFORCE personnel will work closely to
review high-end technology architecture/strategy, business analysis and program
management office (PMO) components, as well as specialized performance
engineering and quality engineering services.
The eFORCE Quality Management Practice provides clients with advisory and
support services that help them implement proactive quality initiatives, reduce
the cost of achieving quality, and remediate products/solutions with quality
issues.
"For over 20 years, CheckFree has set the standard for leadership, innovation
and quality in the financial electronic commerce industry," said Nat Natraj,
president and chief executive officer, eFORCE. "Our role as a quality advisor
to CheckFree is based on a mutual commitment to the highest quality standards
and cost containment."
In addition to its Quality Management Practice, eFORCE offers related services
such as its Software Product Engineering and Quality Assurance Service (SPEQS).
The multi-discipline, standards-based SPEQS practice enables organizations to
reap the benefits of offshore application development without compromising
quality or schedules. Consisting of development centers in the U.S., U.K., and
India, SPEQS supports research & development, prototyping, technology
evaluation and benchmarking; full lifecycle product development;
porting/sustenance engineering; release management; integrated software quality
assurance model; product support; and documentation. SPEQS has grown rapidly
with new clients such as WorldGroup and Annexient.
About CheckFree (http://www.checkfreecorp.com/)
Founded in 1981, CheckFree Corporation provides financial electronic commerce
services and products to organizations around the world. CheckFree Electronic
Commerce solutions enable thousands of financial services providers and billers
to offer their customers the convenience of receiving and paying their
household bills online or in person through retail outlets. CheckFree
Investment Services provides a broad range of investment management solutions
and outsourced services to thousands of financial services organizations, which
manage more than $1 trillion in assets. CheckFree Software develops, markets
and supports software applications that are used by financial institutions to
process more than two-thirds of the 10 billion Automated Clearing House
transactions in the United States. The division also provides reconciliation,
financial messaging, compliance and electronic billing and statement software
to hundreds of organizations across the globe.
About eFORCE (http://www.eforceglobal.com/)
eFORCE specializes in the Design, Development, Migration/Modernization,
Maintenance and Support of IT products and solutions in the areas of Enterprise
Portals, Digital Information Management, Customer Relationship Management,
Enterprise Application Integration, Business Intelligence and Enterprise
Infrastructure. Combining expertise in business architecture, technical
architecture, design, deployment and maintenance, eFORCE delivers
production-scale products/solutions that result in measurable ROI. eFORCE
customers include leading Global 1000 end-users such as Alcatel, AT&T, Avaya,
Baker Hughes, Bank of America, DHL, Fleet Bank, France Telecom, GE Capital,
Hilton, HP, Janssen, Janus, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Viacom, and Visa; and
innovative Software Product companies such as Annexient, BEA Systems,
CheckFree, GMS360, eTeam, Infonet, Matrics, MatrixOne, Netbrowser, Reuters and
WorldGroup. eFORCE delivers solutions based on best-in-class enabling
technologies such as ATG, BEA Systems, BroadVision, E.piphany, HP, IBM,
Interwoven, Mercury, Netegrity, Savvion, Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems,
Microsoft, Oracle, Stellent, TIBCO, Verity and webMethods.
eFORCE (http://www.eforceglobal.com/) is headquartered in Silicon Valley, has
Development Centers in North America, Europe and India, and, through its Global
Delivery Model(TM), provides both onshore and offshore design and development
as well as full lifecycle deployment, maintenance and support.
DATASOURCE: eFORCE
CONTACT: Nat D. Natraj, +1-510-265-5800, for eFORCE
Web site: http://www.checkfreecorp.com/
Web site: http://www.eforceglobal.com/