Agitar Names Gita Gupta to Lead Worldwide Marketing

Marketing Executive from Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP Brings Deep Enterprise Software Experience to Leader in Developer Testing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 15, 2006—Agitar Software, the leader in enterprise developer testing, today announced Gita Gupta has joined the company as vice president of marketing. Reporting to CEO Jerry Rudisin, Gupta brings more than 14 years of enterprise software marketing experience from Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP in technology, product and field marketing.

"Gita understands the software business and the requirements of the Global 2000 IT organizations. She brings world-class marketing expertise and leadership ability to Agitar as we focus on the next phase of our growth," said Rudisin, CEO of Agitar. "I’m thrilled to have Gita join Agitar’s executive team."

Gupta has broad experience in product strategy, positioning, go-to-market planning and execution. After six years at Oracle, focused on database technology and analytics, she spent five years at Vantive and PeopleSoft, in product management and marketing for CRM solutions and core technology. Following PeopleSoft, Gupta spent over three years at SAP, where she held a number of senior management roles focused on solution strategy, go-to-market planning and execution. Most recently, Gupta served as vice president of global field marketing at SAP, where she led the team focused on field marketing for strategic new products, including Duet, SAP xApp Analytics and SAP CRM on-demand solutions.

"Agitar is fundamentally changing – and improving -- how companies build software," said Gupta. "I believe my experience with industry leaders that have established new categories, and driven the transformation of enterprise software, will be valuable in Agitar’s mission of transforming software development."

About Agitar Software:
Agitar helps development teams release software faster while improving quality. Agitar’s products help Java developers find and fix problems in the riskiest parts of their code as they write it, "building quality in" instead of "testing bugs out." Customers have documented shorter development cycles, 90 percent reduction in defects handed over to system integration, and up to 90 percent lower cost of bug fixes. Agitar’s breakthrough technology, software agitation, has won awards including the Java One Duke’s Choice, Jolt Award, Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, and InfoWorld Technology of the Year. Thousands of users at organizations such as Avaya, Bear Stearns, Cisco, EDS, GE Healthcare, IBM Global Services, Northrop-Grumman, NTT Data, Siemens Medical, and webMethods use Agitar’s products to improve in-house, offshore, or outsourced software development. Agitar is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information on how to develop software with confidence, please visit www.agitar.com.

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