Name: 3 best practices for delivering higher quality SAP updates, faster
Start: 2021-04-07T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-04-07T16:00:50.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Tricentis is the global leader in continuous testing and automation, widely credited for rein- venting software testing for DevOps and agile environments. The Tricentis AI-based, automation platform enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing soft- ware release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has been widely recognized as the leader by all major industry analysts, including being named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant five years in a row. Tricentis has more than 1,800 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as Accenture, Coca-Cola, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, RBS, and Zappos. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

According to Paul DiGrazia, VP of QE at Wolters Kluwer, “Quality engineering is all about controlling the chaos across a huge software ecosystem with dozens of different apps, teams, and tools.”

In this webinar, Paul will share how he created a Quality Engineering Center of Excellence to extend quality engineering best practices across 50+ teams at a rapidly growing global organization, resulting in significant quality improvements, as well as time and cost savings.

Watch this webinar to hear Paul’s insights into:

Building a quality engineering practice that is a strategic enabler of business success

Creating a common definition of quality to boost operational efficiency and reduce costs

Uniting teams around a common goal to inspire excellence and innovation

How Wolters Kluwer Built a Testing Center of Excellence from the Ground Up

What is the role of a testing center of excellence within an Agile or distributed delivery model? While the role of a TCoE has always been to standardize testing methodologies, best practices, toolsets, modernizing your TCoE to serve distributed teams can improve quality and efficiency organization-wide, while reducing costs and friction between teams. At a time when testing technology is evolving faster than ever, the TCoE plays a critical role in helping distributed teams overcome technical challenges and realize benefits of emerging technologies.

In this webinar, we’ll share how some of our largest customers are modernizing their TCoEs to empower distributed teams to deliver higher quality software, while ensuring alignment to organization-wide standards and goals.

In this webinar you’ll learn:

Strategies for building or modernizing your TCoE, from standardization and accountability to transparency and flexibility

The foundational technologies that drive success, including a centralized test management solution that can can serve as a single source of truth across teams and tools

How to make your case for building a modern TCoE that extends best-in-class testing principles and tooling across your business

Building a Modern Testing Center of Excellence

How can a unified view of metrics from both development and production revolutionize your approach to performance optimization? By integrating performance testing and performance monitoring into your assessment, you gain a comprehensive perspective across your entire development lifecycle, enabling you to identify and resolve issues faster, enhance reliability, and drive superior performance.

Achieve a Holistic View of Performance, from Dev Through Production

Apple pie and ice cream. Coffee and pastries. Socks and shoes. Tricentis and SAP. Some things are just better together. As one of the fastest-growing Solution Extensions partners and the go-to testing portfolio for SAP customers, Tricentis has been innovating alongside SAP to help our mutual customers keep transformation on track.

In this webinar, we’ll share how to align quality engineering to SAP Activate, which will help customers fast-track their journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and successfully deploy changes to continuously evolving SAP systems.

Join to hear experts from SAP and Tricentis:

Give an overview of SAP Activate, SAP’s methodology to deploy, adopt, and extend new capabilities across your organization
Share strategies for aligning quality to each phase of SAP Activate, including the best time to outline scope, address gaps, and create a test plan to ultimately reduce project risk
Explain how placing an early emphasis on quality during migration projects can both minimize delays and ensure that each wave of changes achieves the desired result

SAP + Tricentis: Aligning a quality-first mindset to SAP Activate

2027. That’s the deadline for the end of support for SAP ECC – and it will be here before you know it. The time is now to get ahead of the deadline and move your critical applications and processes to SAP S/4HANA. The right approach, like SAP Activate, can help you get there faster and with less risk. As an SAP Solution Extensions partner, Tricentis has been innovating alongside SAP to create best-in-class technologies to help streamline any sized SAP modernization project.

Watch this webinar to hear how one of our customers is using the Tricentis SAP Solution, included in SAP Activate, to fast-track their journey to SAP S/4HANA.

Our experts will share:

How SAP and Tricentis are partnering to help you deliver updates and upgrades with confidence
What the Tricentis SAP Solution is, and how it can support your digital transformation efforts
In-depth guidance for what quality activities to perform during each phase of SAP Activate, helping you improve efficiency from day one

Fast track your journey to SAP S/4HANA with the Tricentis SAP solution

In this 5-minute product tour video, you will learn how Tricentis NeoLoad helps you utilize no-code and as-code approaches to design performance tests up to 3x faster, with full tech and DevOps stack integration to automate performance testing. Check out key NeoLoad features and industry use cases.

Tricentis NeoLoad Product Tour

To remain competitive in today’s digitized business environment, companies are modernizing and extending their SAP environments at an increasing rate. But these projects come with a high level of complexity, which can interrupt business continuity and put companies at risk. So how can organizations keep pace with the rapid evolution of ERP technologies while minimizing disruption? A new report, “Business Assurance for SAP Solutions: State of Worldwide SAP Testing 2023” seeks to answer that and other questions from 501 respondents across the globe.

Watch this webinar for a first look at the key findings, which reveal how SAP business assurance strategies have evolved over the past year to accommodate a new pace of innovation. You will learn what sets the most successful organizations apart, how you compare with your peers, and the best practices that can help you modernize with confidence, such as:

Building a comprehensive and targeted business assurance plan
Executing rigorous testing using automation throughout your SAP implementation
Deploying technologies like service virtualization, AI, and ML to accelerate test automation
Engaging and utilizing specialist providers to fast track innovation

The Business Assurance Strategies that Drive SAP Transformation Success

Organizations are under increasing pressure to make certain their data is accurate, compliant with global privacy laws, and arrives fit for purpose as it moves throughout and beyond their SAP systems. This is no small feat, especially in today’s increasingly complex IT landscapes.

Companies need a way to validate that their data can always be trusted by business users and regulators and ensure high quality operational data for their business processes, ultimately driving better business outcomes.

In this webinar, experts from Tricentis will share:

How your approach to SAP data integrity should evolve to keep pace with your IT transformation initiatives
The most common data quality challenges that can affect your SAP systems
Strategies for ensuring your data is always decision grade and high-quality

Ensure data integrity in SAP: Strategies to prevent SAP data quality challenges

Learn how Duke Energy decreased testing time by 98% and saved 4 million dollars in testing costs.

How Duke Energy used Test Automation to Assist with its SAP Transformation

Traditional methods for testing data, such as manual “stare and compare” spot checks and vendor-specific testing tools, are too limited to adequately protect modern SAP environments from data errors. In this webinar, we share a powerful new approach that catches data errors before they can do any damage. Watch it to learn how one large enterprise automated SAP data testing and integrated it into their CI/CD pipeline, as well as how you can:

•Replace time-consuming manual effort with an automated process that can cover massive amounts of data
•Increase the confidence and speed of SAP BW updates
•Ensure SAP updates, upgrades, and migrations don’t negatively impact your data

A New Approach for Verifying SAP Data Integrity

Bugs in your custom ABAP code can impact critical processes, costing your business time and money, and potentially damaging your reputation. These are a few of the many reasons why the quality assurance of custom ABAP code is gaining momentum among SAP developers and technology leaders alike. Detecting bugs early in development, before they’re moved across the landscape, minimizes cost and risk while boosting productivity.

How LiveCompare helps improve the quality of your custom SAP code

In this webinar, distinguished guest speakers from Forrester will share how incorporating AI and analytics into your test strategy can help you deliver higher business value faster across your SAP application landscape. You will learn how organizations who have implemented this approach achieved substantial improvements in quality, while also reducing testing scopes and costs, based on findings from a new commissioned Forrester Consulting study. Register for the webinar to learn: 
 
How a smarter SAP testing strategy can help your organization deliver higher business value across the SAP landscape, as well as the custom applications that integrate with it 
How study participants achieved a 78% reduction in production errors with Tricentis LiveCompare, while reducing the costs associated with both testing and hypercare 
How this technology significantly reduced both testing scopes and timelines by pinpointing the highest-risk areas in each release

The value of impact analysis for accelerating SAP updates

In this 5-minute product tour video, you will learn how Tricentis LiveCompare helps you safely accelerate SAP projects by significantly reducing the risk, time, and cost of delivering and supporting changes to SAP systems. Discover key LiveCompare features, DevOps capabilities, and use cases.

Tricentis LiveCompare product tour

In real-world SAP release cycles, key users bear the brunt of the testing burden. Given the high risk of defects slipping into production, organizations add hypercare periods immediately following the go-live of an SAP update, bringing their most expensive resources together to respond to emergency production issues.

LiveCompare, not hypercare: How to accelerate SAP updates

Here’s the truth: You know manual testing for your Salesforce environment won’t work forever. Your team needs a way to deliver changes faster and with less risk.

In this webinar, you’ll hear experts from Tricentis and SalesforceBen share how test automation can help companies like yours stop doing tedious, manual testing and instead use that time to focus on business-critical projects.

Join the webinar to learn: 

• What a complete Salesforce testing program should look like
• Why test automation is crucial for Salesforce teams
• How to build a test automation program in your company
• Expected outcomes of using test automation

Crash Course in Salesforce Test Automation

Many Salesforce teams face the same struggle: As their Salesforce ecosystem grows and the business becomes more dependent on the system, they need to release faster and minimize deployment issues. Adopting DevOps seems like the de facto solution, but if your team isn’t aligned and prepared to step up to the challenge, it can slow you down instead of speeding you up.

Watch this roundtable-style webinar to hear experts from IdeaScience, Gearset, Hike2, and Tricentis share their unique perspectives and best practices on how to overcome hurdles along your Salesforce DevOps journey.

Best practices for Salesforce DevOps featuring Hike2, Gearset, and IdeaScience

Join us to learn how modernizing and automating SAP risk assessment and testing can help you fast track innovation across even the most complex SAP landscapes, no matter where you are in your digital transformation journey.

3 best practices for delivering higher quality SAP updates, faster

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