Quality Management - SKY I.T. Group

HP QUALITY MANAGEMENT

"The criticality of software to the business, the increasing complexity of software applications and systems, and the relentless business pressures for quality, productivity, and faster time to market have all been positive drivers in the past and will continue to be..." IDC 2006

The world has changed! Status quo is over with a radically different way of building applications to support business process agility/integration. Failures in a single application can impact multiple business processes. In addition, the complexity is getting worse, as disruptions on the "build" side of the equation create risks that impact the test/quality side of the equation.

Key technology disruptions that we have recently observed are:

Massive numbers of ERP upgrades as customers move from older SAP apps to new NetWeaver based implementations
Big impending move with the Oracle Fusion project for PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards customers.
SOA re-architecture and composite applications
And a significant move towards "rich internet applications" (Web 2.0) as companies enhance their websites to make them more user friendly or offer "software as a service

From a process perspective the problems include:

Adoption of new processes such as Agile development and testing to support business need for speed.

And, as the research indicates, IT and the Business still don't have a good system for aligning and communicating requirements and results to one another.

All of the above is creating a massive risk picture for IT and the business, and not having the right tools, a rigorous process, and being out of synch with business priorities and requirements has a detrimental effect on the business.

At the end of the day, if not managed properly, the mix results in a late, over budget application project which are often display poor quality and performance.

Quality Management is designed to address these wide-ranging challenges that your quality assurance professionals face. By leveraging consistent, repeatable and standardized processes, it helps your quality assurance teams turn quality into a competitive advantage.

Sky IT Group's approach to Quality Management is first, we look at the application from the business process perspective, giving you the ability to build manual and automated tests to validate the end user experience before you go-live. Second, we test based on business risk with traceable assets allowing you to understand business requirements, weights on those requirements and the critical test cases that validate those requirements. Third, we take a lifecycle approach to quality with key integration points across the ecosystem allowing you to use best-of-breed HP Software tools in a way that allow you to validate your application. In short, we allow you to minimize time and cost, and gain control of application risk.

Key benefits of HP's Quality Center for Quality Management:

Gain real-time visibility into requirements coverage and associated defects to paint a clear picture of business risk
Manage the release process and make more informed release decisions with real-time KPIs and reports
Measure progress and effectiveness of quality activities
Collaborate in the quality lifecycle with a single global platform
Manage manual and automated testing assets centrally
Facilitate standardized testing and quality processes that boost productivity through workflows and alerts
Lower costs by capturing critical defects before they reach production

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