SmartBear Software and NETbuilder are partnering to deliver SmartBear’s automated testing, API management and Web monitoring tools to the EMEA region. Located in the United Kingdom, NETbuilder is SmartBear’s first EMEA Referral Partner.
“Our Partnership with SmartBear augments our offering of consulting services in automated testing and API management and monitoring services,” said David Njogu, Enterprise Practice Manager at NETbuilder. “It enables our clients and potential clients to benefit from competitively priced professional services that can complement existing teams or that join the client's project as a structured Agile Team of junior, mid-level and senior consultants.”
NETbuilder is also offering training on SmartBear products through its award-winning NETbuilder Academy, geared towards helping people start a career in software development. NETbuilder Academy has deployed 150 graduates into some of the UK’s biggest companies since 2011.
NETbuilder now offers SmartBear’s API Readiness platform, Ready! API, a unified set of testing tools that includes SoapUI NG (functional testing), LoadUI NG Pro (load testing), ServiceV Pro (API service virtualization) and Secure Pro (dynamic API security testing). Ready! API is the most popular platform for ensuring API quality.
NETbuilder is also delivering AlertSite from SmartBear, the best-in-class synthetic monitoring solution to monitor Web, API and mobile assets. AlertSite’s global network of more than 340 monitoring nodes helps application development and operations teams to ensure availability and performance of their applications as well as underlying APIs. Monitor assets from private nodes that can be setup in your network or cloud infrastructure. AlertSite's ease of use and fastest time to value help find issues before they impact end users.
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