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  • Sigstr Secures $4 Million Investment Led by Edison Partners to Fuel Growth of New Products and Market Expansion

    Investment recognizes SaaS platform’s break-out performance as Revenues Nearly Triple

    INDIANAPOLIS, September 18, 2018 – Sigstr, a SaaS platform for employee email signature marketing and relationship intelligence, today announced significant new growth milestones. The company’s annual revenue has nearly tripled in the last year, powered by new customer wins, strong retention and a three-fold expansion in staff. Sigstr has also secured $4 million in new growth investment led by Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investor. Funds will be used to further advance new product development and enterprise market adoption.

    The company’s growth comes on the heels of the launch of its relationship intelligence application, Sigstr Pulse, which uses artificial intelligence to map and quantify the collective networks of all employees in a company, providing sales and marketing alignment and better account-based marketing. Adoption of Sigstr Pulse and the Sigstr Signature Campaigns solutions have also helped Sigstr to nearly triple its customer base with the addition of notable brands such as Amazon, Experian, Snowflake, AT&T, and GoHealth.

    “Sigstr’s vision to help marketing and sales unlock the value of employee email. The high-growth plan we’ve put to action isn’t slowing down, as we plan to hit one million Sigstr users by 2020.  We have an incredible team in place to support the vision and growth plan,” said Bryan Wade, CEO of Sigstr. “People are waking up to the realization that they need to foster relationships with key customers and prospects to make a real business impact. Sigstr makes the process of building relationships easier and more efficient than ever.  People drive relationships and relationships drive revenue.  At Sigstr, we are bridging the gap between relationships and revenue”“For Sigstr, an exceptional management team, clear market fit for ESM and Pulse, and significant account-based marketing growth trends are all colliding to speed customer adoption,” said Ryan Ziegler, General Partner for Edison Partners, who led the investment. “Bryan and team bring a dynamic culture, competitive focus and intensity to the business, which is immeasurable. We’re excited to partner with Sigstr and apply our integrated investing and operating platform to continue to drive value and growth.”

    Snowflake Computing is a rapidly-growing, cloud-based data-warehousing solution that uses Sigstr to harness the power of relationships in their sales and marketing efforts. “Sigstr has completely aligned with our belief that relationships should be at the center of sales and marketing decisions,” said Daniel Day, Director of Account-Based Marketing at Snowflake Computing. “With Sigstr Pulse, we receive a relationship score for every contact and account. This score shows us which employee has a relationship to get us in the door. Sigstr Pulse is taking our marketing program to the next level.”

    In addition to current growth, Sigstr was also recently recognized as a marketing technology leader as a winner of the 2018 Martech Breakthrough Awards for Best Email Marketing Innovation, ZoomInfo’s “Champion Award” and “Best Pipeline Acceleration Campaign” at the ABMies.

    For more information on Sigstr and its recent platform developments and growth, visit Sigstr.com.

    About Edison Partners

    For more than 30 years, Edison Partners has been helping CEOs and their executive teams grow and scale successful companies. The firm’s investment team brings extensive investing and operating experience to each investment. Through a unique combination of growth capital and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of operating leverage, the Edison Director Network, and executive education programs, Edison employs a truly integrated approach to accelerating growth and creating value for businesses. A team of experts in financial technology, healthcare IT and enterprise solution sectors, Edison targets high-growth companies with $5 to $20 million in revenue; investments also include buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock purchases.

    Edison’s active portfolio has created aggregated market value exceeding $10 billion. Edison Partners is based in Princeton, NJ and manages more than $1.4 billion in assets throughout the eastern United States.

    About Sigstr

    Sigstr is a relationship marketing platform that turns the billions of 1:1 emails sent every year into powerful brand engagements and practical relationship intelligence. With integrations into the leading CRMs, MAPs and Marketing Technologies, Sigstr helps companies get more out of their employee email by turning it into a channel that understands and engages their most important audiences. Leading brands like AT&T, Amazon, SendGrid, Terminus, and Yext are using Sigstr to amplify the value of every email their employees send.

  • CloudAlly Attains Advanced APN Technology Partner Status in the Amazon Web Services Network (AWS)

    RAANANA, Israel, Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — CloudAlly, (www.CloudAlly.com), a leading international provider of cloud backup solutions for Office 365, G Suite and Salesforce, today announced it has achieved Advanced Consulting Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The APN is a global program, designed to help APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support.

    This accomplishment will enhance CloudAlly’s ability to provide its cloud-to-cloud backup & restore solution for Office 365, G Suite and Salesforce, and Box.com solutions to customers on AWS.

    “CloudAlly is excited to have been upgraded to the AWS Advanced Technology Partner,” said Avinoam Katz, CEO.

    In addition to the new AWS Advanced Partner status, CloudAlly is now offering its backup solution on the AWS Canadian data center, and other select data centers in the US, EU and Australia.

    Find out how the backup & restore of your main cloud business solutions can be protected by CloudAlly Office 365 Backup, G Suite Backup, Salesforce.com Backup, Box.com Backup on our Website: www.CloudAlly.com

    About CloudAlly
    Founded in 2011, CloudAlly’s ISO 27001 certified and GDPR / HIPAA compliant cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solution performs automated daily backups of leading SaaS applications to Amazon S3 secure storage and makes it available for restore or export from any point in time. We make backup simple and your online data secure.

    For more information, visit www.cloudally.com or follow us on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook.

  • Rainforest QA Releases Mobile Testing Capabilities for iOS 12

     

    Updated Virtual Machines Provide New Testing Environments Instantly, Eliminating Need to Manually Update or Create Environments Through Additional Devices

    SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 17, 2018 – Rainforest QA, the leader in on-demand quality assurance (QA) solutions, announced that its virtual machines (VM), which allows businesses to run testing flows continuously with a consistent experience every time, are immediately available for all mobile iOS 12 customers. By integrating iOS 12 functionality directly into Rainforest’s existing offerings, development teams can instantly access clean, mobile testing environments at the speed of continuous delivery without needing to set up separate testing environments through manual methods. Beta customers such as mobile point-of-sale (POS) system provider Lavu are among several companies that are immediately experiencing productivity, speed and efficiency benefits as a result of the update — integrated into the Rainforest platform with just a single click.

    As enterprises seek to capitalize on the speed and efficiency of continuous delivery, the testing landscape is evolving, and consistent testing without interruptions or switching workflows can be challenging for development teams to accomplish. Without the ability to seamlessly integrate the most up-to-date testing capabilities for new OS versions, companies put themselves at risk of delaying their entire development process due to incompatibility issues.

    “In order to help our customers realize their fullest potential through our service offerings, it’s important for us to stay ahead of the latest OS versions. At the rate QA teams are pushing releases to production, any major delay could be catastrophic for our customer base,” said Svitlana Chumak, Senior QA Engineer at Lavu.“The instant iOS 12 support has helped us noticeably cut down on time and resources. New, manual testing methods that would have taken weeks without the proper OS in place have been reduced to just days, so we can spend more time servicing our customers in new ways.”

    “Enterprises today are working at unmatched speeds to keep up with the pace of continuous delivery, and constant bugs and unexpected interruptions that result from each new OS version can impact a bottom line if they’re not prepared,” said Derek Choy, CIO at Rainforest. “Shipping bugs can can be costly for companies trying to scale, and typically there aren’t enough extra resources for them to address these mishaps. It’s important for us to offer the latest innovations for our customers to help safeguard against unexpected disruptions with their product releases.”

    The beta version of Rainforest’s iOS 12 VMs were available for use on request by select customers, allowing them to test their applications ahead of Apple’s official launch of iOS 12 today. To learn more about using Rainforest for mobile application testing, visit: https://www.rainforestqa.com/product/mobile-app-testing/

    About Rainforest

    Rainforest is changing the way QA is done in an era of continuous delivery. Our on-demand QA solution improves the customer experience by enabling development teams to discover significantly more problems before code hits production. Hundreds of companies including Adobe, Oracle, and Solarwinds use Rainforest to automate their QA testing process and easily integrate it with their development workflow via a simple API. Headquartered in San Francisco, Rainforest is a 2012 Y Combinator graduate funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and SVB Capital among others. For more information, visit https://www.rainforestqa.com.

  • DBmaestro Named Finalist in 2018 DevOps Industry Awards

    Recognition as a leading DevOps Vendor establishes DBmaestro‘s leadership in the database automation industry

    BOSTON, MA, September 17, 2018 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading DevSecOps platform for database release automation solution provider announced today it has been named a finalist for the 2018 DevOps Industry awards as leading DevOps vendor.

    The DevOps Industry Awards celebrate companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements when incorporating and adopting DevOps practices. This leading DevOps vendor award is giving to the company who shows commitment to high quality standards and customer satisfaction with solutions with proven value for money that can demonstrate DevOps thought leadership and contributes to the wider IT community.

    “This award compliments evident growth DBmaestro has witnessed in the past couple years, as we continue to see companies trying to solve the database bottleneck in their application release process”,  said Yaniv Yehuda, CTO at DBmaestro.

    The DevOps Industry Awards 2018 ceremony will be held on 16 October at Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London.

    About DBmaestro
    DBmaestro brings DevOps best practices to the database, delivering a new level of efficiency, speed, security and process integration for databases. DBmaestro’s platform enables organizations to run database deployments securely and methodically, increase development team productivity and significantly decrease time-to-market. The solution enables organizations to implement CI/CD practices for database activities, with repeatable pipeline release automation and automatic drift prevention mechanisms.

    For more information, visit http://www.dbmaestro.com/.

  • Cloudability Achieves Amazon Web Services Cloud Management Tools Competency Status

    Achievement Highlights Company’s Ability to Provide AWS Users with Reliable and Scalable Continuous Cloud Spend Optimization

    Cloudability, a leader in continuous cloud spend optimization, today announced it has achieved Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud Management Tools Competency status. The competency, unveiled today at AWS Summit Atlanta, establishes Cloudability as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that assists AWS customers in provisioning and managing AWS workloads through specialized solutions for administering and provisioning, managing, and optimizing AWS resources.

    The AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency recognizes that Cloudability has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on workloads based on resource and cost optimization. As one of the pillars of the AWS Well Architected Framework (WAF), cost optimization is key to creating efficient and optimal cloud architectures. Cloudability’s machine learning (ML) and data science capabilities, empower enterprises with the precise insights and analytics needed to implement continuous cloud cost optimization into their agile processes.

    “Cloud innovators and early adopters have long known that scaling cloud adoption requires continuous optimization of cloud usage. Cloudability’s platform has played a key role in this effort for thousands of AWS customers” said Erik Onnen, CTO of Cloudability. “Achieving AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency status reinforces our ability to provide AWS customers with ongoing optimization, confidence in their cloud journey and ultimately a faster path to delivering value and meaningful competitive differentiation. We are proud to be a part of this launch with AWS.”

    AWS and Cloudability’s focus on customer obsession is reflected in Ibotta, a leading mobile shopping app that pays consumers cash back on their everyday purchases. Ibotta leveraged Cloudability’s solution to gain visibility and optimize its AWS cloud spend. By implementing Cloudability’s solution, Ibotta saved more than $1 million and was able to redirect that investment towards further advancing its business goals.

    AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

    More information on Cloudability’s continuous cloud spend optimization solution for customers using AWS can be found at booth #427 at the AWS Summit Atlanta or by visiting https://www.cloudability.com/solutions/clouds-we-support/aws/.

    About Cloudability

    Cloudability is a continuous cloud spend optimization platform that delivers accurate cloud financials, empowering companies to run their cloud with financial and operational excellence. Our platform is designed to enable visibility, optimization and governance for every VM, container and serverless workload, application, department and user. Adopted by a number of Fortune 500 companies, Cloudability helps both enterprises and cloud-native companies leverage machine learning, data science, analytics and automation to transform cloud infrastructure data into a new source of competitive value, providing disruptive advantage over time. Venture-backed Cloudability is based in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit www.cloudability.com.

     

  • SmartBear Reinforces Open Source Commitment with Free Access to CrossBrowserTesting

    Free Access to CrossBrowserTesting, the Only All-in-One UI Functional Testing Platform, Will Empower Open Source Communities to Ensure Websites Function Flawlessly on Any Browser, Device, or Operating System

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Sept. 13, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, is reinforcing its open source commitment with a new program that provides free access to CrossBrowserTesting for any software development team working on an open source project. CrossBrowserTesting is the only all-in-one UI functional web testing platform that allows teams to automate running of Selenium scripts, manually debug web applications, and visually compare your site on over 1,500 real desktop and mobile browsers in the cloud.

    “This is a great example of SmartBear once again demonstrating its commitment to the open source community by making all the features, benefits, and support of CrossBrowserTesting available for free to anyone working on an open source project,” said Ron Ratovsky, Swagger Developer Evangelist. “The Swagger development team has used CrossBrowserTesting for a few years now, and it has become a critical part of how we ensure that the SwaggerHub SaaS product and Swagger.io website function perfectly for any user who visits those sites.”

    As a core component of the CrossBrowserTesting service, testers and developers now have full access to the largest device lab available, which maximizes test coverage so you can test on the devices your end users are interacting with, ensuring a seamless user experience. Access to native debugging tools also allows testers to find and fix defects more often and earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), long before deployment, saving both time and money, all while releasing high quality software with more confidence. Teams who utilize CrossBrowserTesting for their open source projects are treated as a full-fledged SmartBear customer, and offered fast and expert support in addition to free academy training classes.

    Earlier this year, SmartBear received the highest ranking for open source-based testing acceleration in the 2018 Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation published by Gartner[1], the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. SmartBear has demonstrated a strong commitment to open source projects such as Selenium, OpenAPI Specification (OAS), Swagger tools, and SoapUI, resulting in SmartBear receiving the highest score. SmartBear recognizes that software development teams are increasingly using open source tools and frameworks, and is committed to supporting these organizations to obtain as much success as possible.

    To get started, visit: https://crossbrowsertesting.com/open-source

    About SmartBear Software

    Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

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  • DeployHub offers first hosted Application Release Automation solution for achieving fast and safe continuous deployments

    Albuquerque, NM – September 13, 2018 – DeployHub, Inc., visionaries in Agile DevOps, today announced at New Mexico’s ExperienceITNM technology conference the launch of DeployHub SaaS, the first and only hosted solution for Application Release Automation (ARA).  DeployHub SaaS is focused on assisting high performing software teams to achieve full continuous deployments in both legacy and server-less data centers, from a frictionless hosted platform.

    “Our goal is to allow all software development teams to deploy software like Facebook, Amazon and Netflix,” said Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub Inc. “We are disrupting the ARA market as usual by providing an affordable, better and faster way to release digital products to software end users – without breaking things.”

    DeployHub’s SaaS includes DeployHub Team, free for software development teams and DeployHub Pro, an upgrade for development teams that need more security and project management ‘release’ features.  DeployHub Pro is priced at $208 per month/per software package providing unlimited users, end points and release versions.  The free offering, DeployHub Team, is based on the DeployHub Open Source Project.  DeployHub, Inc. is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

    DeployHub integrates with continuous delivery orchestration engines such as Jenkins, Bamboo and GitHub to mature the continuous delivery pipeline to full continuous deployment.

    Agile teams can sign-up and start deploying at www.deployhub.com.

    About DeployHub Inc.

    DeployHub Inc. is driven by the goal to firmly establish continuous deployments as a reality for high performing agile teams, allowing them to rapidly and safely release new innovation to their software end users.  We understand the importance of supporting today’s cloud and physical data centers, but maintain a strong focus on the future needs of the new microservices and Kubernetes server-less environments.

  • Twistlock Labs Uncovers Widespread Zero Touch Attacks Against Cloud Native Applications

    Over 25 percent of Cloud Native Applications Vulnerable to Exploit; Over 90 percent of Attacks Automated

    PORTLAND, OR, September 13, 2018 / Twistlock, the leader in cloud native cybersecurity, today released its first biannual state of cloud native security report, entitled Watching the Honeypots.

    In this report, Twistlock Labs researchers analyzed deployments of common cloud native applications and ran honeypots to collect data on risk factors and attack patterns against cloud native services.  The report shows that while over 60 percent of cloud native services are not kept up to date automatically, over 90 percent of attacks are automatically executed against outdated code and known CVEs.

    “Adoption of cloud native technologies gives organizations a chance to build and deploy software faster, and scale and manage deployments with ease.  But this speed and agility is often coming at the expense of foundational security practices,” said Dima Stopel, Twistlock co-founder and VP Research & Development.  “Organizations need to build automatic enforcement of security into their application pipelines – both to prevent vulnerable code from reaching production, but also to quickly triage and patch new risks in production.”

    Key findings include:

    -Surveying the top cloud native applications, 25 percent were running with CVEs where a known exploit exists.

    -MySQL was the most likely to be out of date, with over 80 percent of deployments being at least one version behind.  Overall, 60 percent of all cloud native apps are not patched to the latest version.

    -Over 90 percent of detected attacks were automatically executed – zero touch hacking that focuses on brute force or known exploits.

    -China plays a significant role in the modern threat landscape with over 60 percent of detected attacks against cloud native applications originated from Chinese IP ranges.

    Download the full report here.

    About Twistlock Labs

    Twistlock Labs, Twistlock’s Security Research Team, is constantly trying to get into the minds of attackers to better understand how they would attempt to gain access to or potentially compromise your containerized and cloud native environments. We then take this data and share details on these threats or work directly with Twistlock R&D to include protection for real-world attack scenarios in the Twistlock Platform.

    About Twistlock

    Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated and scalable container cybersecurity platform.  From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production.  Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies – Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. For more information, please visit www.twistlock.com

  • Moogsoft Achieves Amazon Web Services Cloud Management Tools Competency Status

    Leading AIOps platform helps enterprise IT teams migrate to AWS by increasing operational agility without adding cost

    SAN FRANCISCO — SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 — Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Management Tools Competency status. This designation recognizes that Moogsoft AIOps assists AWS customers in managing AWS workloads and optimizing AWS operational management.

    Achieving the AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency differentiates Moogsoft as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with a specific focus on monitoring, event, and issue management. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

    “Moogsoft is proud to achieve AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency status,” said Phil Tee, CEO of Moogsoft. “Moving to the cloud introduces new challenges for enterprises, but it’s categorically the right thing to do in order to become an agile business and unlock the full potential of the digitally-transformed world. Our team is dedicated to helping companies accelerate their AWS cloud migration by eliminating the barriers of operational agility without adding cost.”

    AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

    Moogsoft’s patented AIOps technology moves beyond diagnostic insights by using patented artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to proactively detect service-impacting incidents and orchestrate workflows across complex, hybrid IT environments. By automatically reducing alert and ticket volumes and clustering events into unique situations, operations teams are able to diagnose root cause and restore services faster.

    “We came to Moogsoft because we’re experiencing significant business growth and our legacy event management systems couldn’t scale, nor could it accommodate new data sources like AWS,” said Felix Gorodishter, Incident Operations Manager at GoDaddy. “Moogsoft was initially deployed as a layer on top of these systems, but now it is completely replacing the legacy systems.”

    Moogsoft AIOps is fully integrated with Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, AWS CloudTrail for log aggregation, and AWS Systems Manager for automation.

    For more information about Moogsoft AIOps, visit the AWS Marketplace.

     

  • Applitools Unveils World’s First UI Version Control System

    Finally, product teams can directly link GitHub code changes to visual changes in the UI

    SAN MATEO, Calif., September 13, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced the world’s first UI Version Control system, empowering developers, test automation engineers, and product managers to view the entire history of their web and mobile application user interfaces (UI) to understand what’s changed, when, and by whom. This lets R&D and product teams more intelligently guide app development by providing a visual record of which features have worked, and which haven’t, across the entire history of the app.

    In addition, Applitools UI Version Control system automatically runs visual tests as part of a GitHub build process. By performing visual validations for GitHub pull requests, it prevents visual bugs from escaping into production apps.

    “Applitools’ new UI Version Control system gives us insight into the UI changes in our software and the underlying code changes,” comments Nicholas Blair, Engineering Manager at Sonatype. “With full visibility into what changed in the UI, why it changed, and who changed it, we are able to release faster, more often, and with high confidence.”

    To get started with Applitools, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/landing/free-account-qa).

    Prior to Applitools UI Version Control system, developers had to build an earlier version of an app to see how it previously looked. This process could take hours if not days, distracting product teams from delivering new functionality and negatively impacting customer churn and revenue.

    “We were amazed that, with so many businesses driving the bulk of their revenue through web and mobile apps, there wasn’t a way for product teams to track the visual evolution of the UIs. So we built one,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “UI version control lets product teams build smarter by capturing the entire visual history of their apps, so they have a record of what’s been improved — and what should be rolled back if the need arises. UI version control provides mission critical knowledge to help businesses manage the challenges linked to digital transformation.”

    For a full video tutorial of Applitools new UI version control from our CTO Adam Carmi go here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEk2_Hnw1MY)

    Applitools UI version control works just like source code version control that developers are already familiar with. Visual baseline branches can be merged in the same way that code changes are merged. For each branch in a GitHub project repository, users can see the history of all their test baselines, compare them to prior baseline versions, and if necessary, revert to an earlier version. They can then reject and/or revert to any baseline modified by accident or by design.

    Applitools UI Version Control is now immediately available to all Applitools customers. If you are interested in talking to an automated visual testing expert please contact us (https://applitools.com/contact).

    About Applitools

    Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.