Fanfare Announces Professional Services to Accelerate Equipment Testing

Company Responds to Customer Needs with Critical Quality Assurance Resources

Mountain View, California - August 30, 2006 The Fanfare Group, Inc., delivering world-class testing products for companies developing high-tech equipment, today launched Fanfare Professional Services providing customers with additional resources to help streamline the equipment Quality Assurance (QA) process. Fanfare's Professional Services experts are dedicated to working along side customers to drive new efficiencies and ensure they receive the greatest value from FanfareSVT. Announced earlier this year, FanfareSVT is the first commercially developed test automation software for validating the functionality of high-tech equipment.

"The availability of Fanfare's expert services helped to accelerate adoption of FanfareSVT," said Sujatha Gurrapu, QA Director at Blue Coat. "Quick adoption among team members enables Blue Coat to realize the value of the FanfareSVT product and produce the quality products our customers expect."

"We are responding to our customers' needs with a flexible and unique approach to services. Fanfare Professional Services provide our customers the opportunity to bring an expert on board to help move them to value and control more quickly," said Tom Ryan, CEO of Fanfare. "Whether it's adding extra resources to get a product released on time, powering through a backlog of test cases, or implementing best practices in test automation, we are working with our customers to help them achieve better product quality moving forward."

Fanfare offers a range of professional services, all of which can be customized to fit a customer's particular requirements. The professional services offerings include:

Fanfare Quickstart: An intensive five day program that combines on-site professional services with structured classroom training. This program ensures that new skills are quickly acquired and re-usable test assets are constructed.

Fanfare Acceleration Services: To deploy a new test automation infrastructure, or for longer-term maintenance projects, Fanfare offers expert services in the following areas:

Backlog Reduction - Most equipment testing organizations are under tremendous pressure balancing quality and time to market. Armed with FanfareSVT, Fanfare experts ease the pressure by automating key test cases and building an automated regression testing library.

Script Maintenance - Many test organizations have existing test scripts and script libraries that require ongoing maintenance. These test assets represent a significant investment Fanfare technical experts help migrate them into FanfareSVT to maintain these assets.

Specialized Training - Fanfare offers structured training courses at its headquarters in Mountain View, California or on-site at the customer's facilities. These courses provide a comprehensive understanding of FanfareSVT focused on building skills and developing talent. All topics are supported by extensive hands-on exercises based on customer specific examples.

More information about Fanfare's Professional Services can be found at http://www.fanfaregroup.com/services.

About The Fanfare Group

Fanfare is revolutionizing how high-tech equipment vendors manage product release cycles. By combining test development, execution, documentation, and automation into a single step, the company offers the first commercially-developed test automation software for validating the functionality of high-tech equipment. Using the FanfareSVT™ family of products, quality assurance teams improve customer satisfaction and reduce QA costs. Founded in 2004, Fanfare is a private company based in Mountain View, California, with venture backing from Matrix Partners and Redpoint Ventures. More information about the company and FanfareSVT can be found at www.fanfaregroup.com.

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