New Partnership Features Launch of Virtusa’s Harness Center of Excellence and Developer Experience Offering to Accelerate Digital Transformation
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Virtusa Corporation, a global leader in digital business strategy, product, and platform engineering, today announced a strategic partnership with Harness, the AI DevOps platform company. Through this collaboration, Virtusa will expand its ability to help joint enterprise clients modernize their software delivery lifecycle for the AI era, enabling them to reduce costs, accelerate time to market, and improve overall software quality.
Harness plays a key role in Virtusa’s overall strategy to assist our clients in automating the entire product and software development lifecycle processes. The partnership centers around Virtusa’s newly launched Harness Center of Excellence (COE) and comprehensive Harness Developer Experience offering, designed to help organizations maximize the value of the Harness platform across CI/CD, feature management, cloud cost management, security, and developer experience. By combining Virtusa’s deep domain expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology with Harness’s industry-leading automation platform, clients will gain unprecedented value across multiple industries.
“Virtusa’s Harness Center of Excellence represents a significant investment in expertise, training, and proven implementation methodologies,” said Patty Cheung, Vice President, Partners and Alliances at Harness. “Their commitment underscores the growing demand we’re seeing from global enterprises to adopt the Harness Platform and transform how software is built and delivered. Together, we’re helping organizations achieve faster innovation, stronger governance, and measurable business impact.”
Strategic Investment in Excellence
Virtusa’s Harness Center of Excellence represents a significant investment in specialized expertise, featuring certified Harness professionals, proven best practices, and accelerated deployment methodologies. The center will serve as a hub for innovation, training, and knowledge sharing, ensuring clients receive world-class implementation and ongoing support.
“This partnership with Harness aligns perfectly with our commitment to driving sustainable growth for our clients,” said Josh Soldati, Head of Global Alliances at Virtusa. “By combining our deep industry expertise with Harness’s innovative AI DevOps platform, we’re empowering organizations to transform their software delivery capabilities fundamentally. Our Harness Center of Excellence and Developer Experience offering represents a significant step forward in helping clients achieve their digital transformation goals while optimizing costs and improving quality.”
Comprehensive Solution Portfolio
The collaboration tackles key enterprise challenges: long development cycles, rising cloud costs, security vulnerabilities, and complex deployment. By integrating Harness platform—including CI/CD, feature flags, cost management, and security —with Virtusa’s expertise, the partnership enables joint delivery of:
- AI-powered software delivery: accelerating development from ideation to post-deployment
- Optimized team structures: Setting up the right people and roles for product-centric delivery
- Modern ways of working: Establishing value stream mapping and execution methods
- Virtusa FLOW framework: Streamlining backlog-to-production with ROI visibility
- DevOps modernization: Measuring progress, detecting bottlenecks, and optimizing workflows
- Real-time insights: Using dashboards for ongoing performance and improvement
The developer experience offering provides end-to-end transformation services, seamlessly integrating the Harness Platform. Virtusa’s offering covers the entire spectrum from initial assessment and strategy development through full-scale implementation and optimization. This comprehensive approach ensures clients maximize their return on investment while minimizing disruption to existing operations.
About Virtusa Corporation
Virtusa Corporation is a global provider of digital engineering and technology services and solutions for Forbes Global 2000 companies in the financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology industries worldwide. At Virtusa, digital engineering is at the heart of everything we do. We are 27,000 builders, makers, and doers who partner with customers to reimagine enterprises and creatively build solutions to the most pressing business challenges that move them to the forefront of their industries.
Virtusa’s unique Engineering First approach means never presenting an idea we can’t execute. With deep industry expertise and empowered agile teams made up of world-class talent, we think about execution early in the process, because the earlier you think about execution the earlier an idea can have an impact. Solving from the inside out enables businesses to respond swiftly to changing needs with improved quality, lower costs, and lasting results.
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About Harness
Harness is the AI DevOps platform for complete software delivery. It provides a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses AI and machine learning to monitor the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight, giving engineers their nights and weekends back. Harness customers like United Airlines, Citibank, and Choice Hotels accelerate deployments by up to 75%, reduce infrastructure costs by up to 60%, and decrease lead time for changes by up to 90%. Harness is based in San Francisco and is backed by industry-leading investors like Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.
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