Partners
Fanfare’s agnostic partner ecosystem increases the value that customers receive when deploying iTest. iTest is an open and extensible platform, which makes it easy for Fanfare’s partners to integrate with iTest to meet automation objectives and requirements. Test equipment partners are able to easily plug in testing tools, while service and channel partners can leverage iTest’s extensibility to address the most demanding system test requirements. Fanfare is also leading the industry forward through participation in a number of industry initiatives designed to increase integration between different vendors and proprietary test automation components.
A partial list of Fanfare's partners is provided below. For questions about our partner ecosystem, or to learn how to become a partner, please email us at partners@fanfaresoftware.com.
Technology partners |
Managed & professional services |
Channel partners |
Alliances & industry groups |
Technology partners
As the world’s premier measurement company, Agilent works in close collaboration with engineers, scientists, and researchers around the globe to meet the communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis challenges of today and tomorrow.
Agilent Technologies and Fanfare are working together to improve productivity for customers using both the Agilent N2X multiservice test system and Fanfare’s iTest.
HP Software leads the business technology optimization (BTO) market by partnering with industry leaders to provide complete solutions which extend and enhance their software portfolio. As the focus of IT shifts from systems management to business results, leading companies are investing in HP Software to lower costs, improve delivery time, and reduce risk for their most strategic business initiatives.
Fanfare is a certified Gold Member of HP’s Software Enterprise Management Alliance Program (EMAP). Our HP Quality Center Integration module (available as an add-on to any iTest edition) has been approved by HP as a certified application integration. This integration creates a bidirectional flow of information between iTest and HPQC. Users can publish single or batch results directly into HPQC as well as place copies of the entire test report and test case inside of HPQC. Suites of tests can be targeted for execution within HPQC and then executed by iTest, with the results, reports, and test cases returned back to HPQC.
Ixia is a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services.
Ixia and Fanfare have formed a strategic partnership that enables closer collaboration and integration between Ixia’s hardware and software products and Fanfare’s iTest®. The combined solution enables network equipment manufacturers and service providers to create more comprehensive, rigorous test scenarios that ensure quality and reduced time to market for network products and services.
Shenick, a provider of IP communications test and performance monitoring systems, offers "per flow" converged NGN test, performance measurement, and monitoring solutions.
Shenick offers full plug-in support between Shenick's diversifEye™ and Fanfare's iTest® products. The integrated module enables carriers and device manufacturers of NGN and next-generation wireless products and applications to streamline communication during acceptance testing, reducing the amount of time required to resolve issues.
Spirent Communications plc is a leading communications technology company focused on delivering innovative systems and services to meet the needs of customers worldwide.
Spirent’s test equipment products are tightly integrated with Fanfare’s iTest, and Spirent’s Device Commander is an OEM product built by Fanfare. In addition, the Spirent global services organization is fully certified in the use and deployment of iTest to solve the most complex automation challenges.
Managed services and professional services
Paxterra Solutions, Inc. is a software services organization in the networking, telecom, and wireless domains that specializes in product development, QA, automation, technical support and solutions. Paxterra is a strong believer in promoting automation in the early stages of product/application development.
Paxterra has partnered with Fanfare to promote iTest as the common test automation framework for test activity. Paxterra works closely with Fanfare’s customers to provide services on a consulting basis on automation strategy, end-to-end automation, and migration of automation infrastructures.
Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and business transformation consulting firm. For over two decades, Tech Mahindra has been the chosen transformation partner for wireline, wireless and broadband operators in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America.
Tech Mahindra uses iTest® to expand its test offerings, including compliance testing for next generation technologies like IPv6 and LTE as well as end-to-end testing on emerging services such as IPTV, data over wireless, and Wimax. Tech Mahindra also provides professional services to Fanfare's customers in the form of consultancy, tool migration, and test interface development.
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Channel partners
Compleo is focused on delivering automation for networks and businesses in Japan. They have deep knowledge and experience of networking and programming to meet customer demands.
Compleo is a distributor of Fanfare products in Japan, providing local sales and technical support for Fanfare.
Paralink Networks Shanghai Inc.
Paralink Networks delivers a comprehensive family of innovative testing tools and advanced technology solutions for the datacom and telecom industries, with the objective of being the leading provider of products to maximize the performance, quality, and reliability of networks.
Paralink is a reseller of Fanfare products in China and Taiwan, providing local support to their customers.
Unitel enables its customers to develop, test, and assure next-generation networks, equipment, and services more economically and efficiently. Unitel provides a total solution from L2 to L7.
Unitel is Fanfare's representative in Korea, providing customers with a local sales and support option for Fanfare products.
Alliances and industry groups
TAA (Test Automation Alliance) offers an open IP test framework called Automation Continuum™, which integrates best-in-class test lab, test authoring, and test execution technologies to achieve seamless, sustainable, and cost effective test automation. The TAA framework is built upon the open source Eclipse platform, and therefore, it is the industry’s only truly open platform for automation vendors, service providers, and networking equipment manufacturers. TAA members enable test labs with these benefits by delivering a productivity leap in testing IP networks, reducing cost of ownership for home grown test automation systems, and enabling a community of supportive, test automation experts.
Fanfare, a founding member of TAA, offers integrations with other members’ products to provide system test configuration, system test case authoring, test execution, and system test reporting.
TesLA is an alliance of IP test vendors working together to provide an open multivendor automation framework. The framework ensures interoperability among members' products, making it easy for customers to improve efficiency and productivity through end-to-end test automation processes. By embracing the use of efficient, standardized test methodologies that the TesLA framework provides, customers can accelerate their products' time to market while improving product service quality and ROI.
As a member of the TesLA Alliance, Fanfare offers seamless interoperation between the iTest platform and the TesLA framework that provides customers a much needed framework and set of tools to raise productivity, improve ROI, and accelerate time to market.
