IBM completes GreenHat acquisition

IBM has completed the acquisition of Green Hat, a privately held company, headquartered in London, England and Wilmington, Delaware.

The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

On January 4, 2012, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Green Hat, a company dealing in software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments.

Green Hat helps customers to improve the quality of software applications by letting developers to use cloud computing technologies to conduct testing of software application prior to its delivery.

After combination with IBM’s rational software solutions, developers and testers can enhance efficiency, effectiveness and collaboration while delivering quality software to their business.

''Green Hat's virtualization testing technology addresses the entire development lifecycle and helps accelerate the delivery of business critical software at a lower cost to the business,'' said Kristof Kloeckner, GM, IBM Rational.

The firm's solutions help software development teams, simulate an actual testing lab, creating a virtual environment to accurately test diverse software, hardware and expensive 3rd party services. The company has customers in industries that span financial services, healthcare, government and telecommunications, and it will be integrated into IBM’s Rational Software business.