Primary Recommendation

SQS - Last remaining independent software testing business on a prospective PE of 9.7

April 2012

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The fear of screwing up within the banking community following the financial crisis has seen dramatic changes in the way many banks and also other corporates now test their IT and software systems. In order to implement change, more and more are turning to third-party specialists for assistance, rather then let their own staff do the testing, as was the norm in the past. Customers expect their software to run bug-free on a mixture of hardware platforms and they want functionality to remain intact when compliance and legislation changes are made or when there are transitions between new generations of software.The scale of the opportunity is indicated by estimates that the world market for software testing that is being outso ...

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