Vendor Analysis
published on Jan 06, 2023
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Aspire Systems' offerings and capabilities in quality engineering services
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's quality engineering services profile on Aspire Systems is a comprehensive assessment of Aspire’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:
This profile examines high-potential testing services offerings, including well-accepted ones (e.g., continuous testing), those that still have room for growth (e.g., ERP and enterprise application testing), high-growth offerings (e.g., application migration to the cloud), and enabling technologies (e.g., AI-based analytics and AI-based automation). The quality engineering (QE) offerings covered are:
- Continuous testing
- AI-based analytics
- AI-based automation
- Application migration to the cloud testing
- ERP/enterprise application testing
- UX testing across usability, compatibility, accessibility, and content testing
- Application security testing
- Connected device testing.
Key Findings & Highlights:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Aspire Systems’ offerings and capabilities in quality engineering.
Aspire Systems is a product engineering and IT services vendor headquartered in Singapore. The company primarily services U.S. clients and has its delivery organization located in India—mostly in Chennai and also in Hyderabad and Bangalore.
In FY22 (the year ending March 31, 2022) Aspire had revenues of ~$115m and 4,500 employees. The company has a background in servicing ISVs and high-tech organizations and expanded to IT services.
Aspire Systems primarily services clients in the following sectors: high-tech and ISVs, BFS, insurance, and retail. Its clients include Pearson, FIS, Salesforce, and Standard Chartered.
The company is expanding its nearshore and onshore capabilities and has opened delivery centers in Mexico, Poland, and Dallas, TX. The company has ~150 personnel in each delivery center and plans to reach 300.
The company is structured into several units: software engineering (software product development), testing, digital services, and ISVs. Each unit has its P&L and is responsible for pre-sales, delivery, innovation, and HR. Testing is Aspire Systems’ second-largest unit, representing 23% of the company’s revenues. Aspire has 150 QA clients and 1k testers (including 800 in India). Aspire’s QA unit targets BFS, retail, education, insurance firms, and ISVs. It has one CoE focused on best practices, Innovation Lab.
Aspire Systems has structured its QA capabilities around four offerings: managed testing services, test transformation services, core testing services, and test consulting.