Vendor Analysis
published on Dec 06, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes LTI 's offerings and capabilities in quality engineering services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's quality engineering services profile on LTI is a comprehensive assessment of LTI’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of software testing/quality assurance/quality engineering, and application services/ADM
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector and examining growth areas within IT services.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of LTI’s quality engineering and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes LTI’ offerings and capabilities in quality engineering
LTI changed its testing service structure in FY20 and moved from a P&L structure to a CoE based model. LTI's career tester now sits in the verticals and other horizontal service lines (e.g., SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce). In total, LTI estimates it had approximately 4.3k career testers across the organization at the end of Q1 FY22.
LTI has structured its QA strategy around four axes:
- "New ways of working," with a refreshed portfolio. See the Key Offering sub-section
- "Platform," with a continued push on IP and accelerators. LTI sells its tools as IP with a software license and maintenance fee as part of its IP strategy. See the Key Offering sub-section
- "Talent," with a focus on learning and skill development. See the Delivery Capabilities sub-section
- "Collaboration," 'with a focus on building a testing partner ecosystem. See the Key Offering sub-section.
LTI has aligned its QA portfolio around the following priorities. The company highlights it has at least five clients for each of the offerings:
- Cloud: application migration to the cloud and SaaS applications
- Connected devices and IoT: LTI is accompanying parent L&T in its 20 smart city projects across India around traffic management, citizen services, and healthcare
- AI/ML testing: AI-based quality engineering services and IPs
- Data: working on making data accessible to the insurance brokers of a large insurance firm
- Performance and resilience engineering backed up by an IP, Canvas Resilience Platform.
LTI continues to shift its service portfolio, transforming TCoEs to continuous testing and "on-demand" services (e.g., performance, resilience, and crowdsourcing).
The company highlights that it has kept on winning significant testing engagements, mainly in bundled AD and AM. LTI has also won standalone QA contracts. The QA wins, whether bundled or standalone, are across technologies, from API to connected devices, performance.