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Alithya welcomes Askida to its family and widens its offering of advanced application development and software quality assurance
Alithya welcomes Askida to its family and widens its offering of advanced application deve...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nAlithya welcomes Askida to its family and widens its offering of advanced application development and software quality assurance\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nMONTREAL, Feb. 3, 2020\n\n\n\nMONTREAL, Feb. 3, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ - Alithya Group inc. (TSX: ALYA) (NASDAQ: ALYA) (« Alithya »), a leader in digital strategy and transformation employing more than 2,000 professionals and offering enterprise solutions in Canada, the United States, and Europe, is proud to announce the acquisition of the Askida group of companies (« Askida »).\nAskida is a firm specializing in software quality assurance and application development and modernization. Over the past twenty years, the firm of some 110 professionals, operating in Quebec and Ontario, has developed a solid reputation for supporting major clients in the delivery of critical business solutions. The company collaborates with numerous companies and innovative institutions looking to optimize their systems and improve their performance. Askida's proven successes include the development of mobile or web applications, the modernization of legacy systems, and the creation of open source software or commercial software packages.\n\"I'm very proud to welcome more than 110 Askida experts to our ranks,\" says Paul Raymond, President and CEO of Alithya. Their expertise in application development is very complementary to that of Alithya, and our corporate cultures are similar. They also bring additional expertise in software quality assurance, which will allow us to develop new markets. Their Askida CT software solution, which automates continuous testing, will be a definite asset that will allow us to better serve our customers.\"\n\"One of the values dearest to Alithya is the quality of the business relationships that we share with our customers. At Askida, we see the same desire to develop long-term ties through the attainment of intimate knowledge of the operations and characteristics of each client. It is that approach that enables us to deliver unique ad...