Sammamish, WA and San Francisco, CA - June 30, 2011 - ArtinSoft Corporation and InnerWorkings today announced a partnership that will result in a comprehensive offering aimed at accelerating customer migration to the Microsoft .NET platform.

InnerWorkings, a global software company that delivers a hosted.NET learning platform, allows software managers to train their programmers and evaluate skills acquisition. Their truly “hands-on” learning environment provides real experience writing code while learning new .NET technologies, all on a platform that has been tested, used, and validated by over 200,000 developers and thousands of corporations worldwide.

ArtinSoft possesses a unique automated conversion technology and years of experience in .NET migration projects for hundreds of enterprise customers around the world. Their solution helps companies move away from an unsupported platform, preserving an application’s capital investment while reducing development, maintenance and deployment costs and breaking scalability and future evolution constraints.

Focusing on software migration, InnerWorkings and ArtinSoft found perfect compatibility between their respective solutions and customer needs.

“Through this strategic partnership, both companies can now extend their offerings with substantial added value, not only migrating software applications but also updating the skill sets of the teams in charge of those systems”, noted Roberto Leiton, ArtinSoft CEO. “We are definitely excited to have InnerWorkings as a partner, foreseeing great benefits for clients looking to achieve a complete, fast and risk-free migration to .NET”.

“InnerWorkings has long searched for a meaningful .NET migration partner with a reputation for delivering rigorous, enterprise class software migrations,” said Francis McKeagney, InnerWorkings CEO. “ArtinSoft Corporation is such a partner, and we’re confident that our combined offering of best-in-breed .NET migration tools alongside world-class .NET learning will be a winning combination for our shared customer base.”

About ArtinSoft

With over fifteen years of experience, ArtinSoft has proven to be a key player in software transformation, by allowing customers from all over the world to ensure business continuity and compliance through migration solutions and developer tools. Created upon principles of artificial intelligence and a relentless passion for innovation, the company is now the de-facto leader in the VB6 application renewal space, holding an unparalleled record of real world migration projects while in constant growth through a strategic partner network. ArtinSoft’s solutions enable organizations to leverage years of intellectual and financial investment in the most cost-effective way. Furthermore, not only can its products be thoroughly customized, but also complemented with different training and technical support options. Visit www.artinsoft.com for more details.

About InnerWorkings
InnerWorkings provides a coding sandbox, integrated learning platform, and executive dashboard to improve developer skills across your software organization. Used by over 200,000 developers and many Fortune 500 companies worldwide, our learning solution is designed to help software teams of all sizes build great software on the .NET Framework. Visit www.innerworkings.com for more details.

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The software industry has moved from a dogged recession in 2008, to talent wars amongst the major Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) and System Integrators (SIs) as they struggle to attract the best and brightest to their workforce.

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