Interactive TKO, Inc.

Interactive TKO, Inc.

Type	Software
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Computer software, Software testing, Service virtualization
Founded 📆	1999
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️	Plano, Texas USA
Area served 🗺️
Key people	John Michelsen Ruston Vickers Shridhar Mittal Jon Lauck Robert Humphrey
Products 📟	LISA Service Virtualization LISA Development Cloud Manager LISA Continuous Validation LISA Pathfinder LISA Test
Members
Number of employees
🌐 Website	www.itko.com
📇 Address
📞 telephone

ITKO (Interactive TKO, Inc.) was an enterprise software company based in Plano, Texas. ITKO's LISA product suite (now rebranded CA DevTest) is designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams, especially those involved in custom applications, SOA, and cloud computing. ITKO became a CA Technologies company in 2011.

History

Company founders John Michelsen and Ruston Vickers were operating a custom software consulting company when they designed the test engine kernel of LISA 1.0 in 1999 to provide high-volume load testing of a Java-based trading network.

Since the first commercial release of LISA 2.0 in 2002, ITKO has increasingly focused on testing the many disparate types of components and technologies that can make up distributed, Internet-based enterprise applications.

Shridhar Mittal became president and CEO in September 2005.

The company's customers include First Data, American Airlines, ANZ, Citigroup, DirecTV, Oracle Corporation, Southern California Edison, and Time Warner Cable.

On June 29, 2011, CA Technologies announced that it would acquire ITKO for $330 million. In August, CA Technologies announced that the acquisition had been completed.

Products

The LISA suite includes the following products:

• LISA Service Virtualization (or Virtualize): A service virtualization product, which involves creating virtual models to simulate the behavior of constrained resources to eliminate dependencies on unavailable or inaccessible resources during the software development and testing phases.
• LISA Test: Provides an automated testing solution for distributed application architectures that leverage SOA, BPM, integration suites, and Enterprise service buses. Product teams can use LISA Test to design and execute automated unit, functional, regression, integration, load, and performance tests. They can test multiple layers of the distributed architecture, including Rich Internet Application UIs and heterogeneous middle-tier technologies.
• LISA Validate: Verifies that changes to individual services do not cause unintended consequences for business requirements and policies.
• LISA Pathfinder: Helps development and testing teams to identify and fix defects in complex, distributed systems.

External links

• CA LISA Service Virtualization (former ITKO LISA product)
• ServiceVirtualization.Com community forum
• Old ITKO Home Page
• Virtualization Journal article byline: "Are SOA and Virtualization Related?" March 2, 2008.
• SearchSOA article "SOA Virtualization Gets Real," Rich Seeley, November 28, 2007.

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