HP BTO Software Centers – Overview07/24/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
HP offers a number of BTO Centers. These software packages support in the context of a BTO strategy specific phases of the application lifecycle. The following overview is meant to shed light on the HP BTO jungle.
IT STRATEGY
Project and Portfolio Management Center (CIO Office)
The IT management solution enables control and documentation of the enterprise [...]
Forrester: HP is Number 1 for Functional Testing07/14/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
According to then most recent Forrester Wave Report dating July 8, 2008 on Functional Testing solutions HP clearly keeps on leading this market.
Using 96 criteria Forrester evaluated 6 solutions and came to clear results:
HP continues leading the functional testing market since it acquired Mercury Interactive in 2006.
IBM has a very promising product roadmap and [...]
A Strategy is a Story07/02/2008 by Michael Loebbert
As a reminder of what a strategy is and what it should provide:
It organizes and coordinates a variety of acts and decisions of one or more persons to a common goal,
it makes this in a deliberate contrast to other perhaps possible approaches, takes a conscious decision and risk.
Effectiveness is achieved not only with orientation, concentration [...]
Put your mind at ease even when SAP support packs roll out04/01/2008 by Fritz Mosonyi
Typical Situation
Installing SAP support packs is always quite a challenge. Which parts of the SAP-supported business processes are really affected? What exactly should be tested? Are there any own developments affected? What is the amount of resources required for testing and interventions? These are just some of the possible questions. Unfortunately, they normally can not [...]
Only Motivated Users Make IT Projects Successful04/01/2008 by Dietmar Wettach
The introduction of a new IT solution entails a large deal of different changes. New roles and responsibilities must be defined, supported by additional new software. An early integration of the future users is of great importance, but very often, there is not enough attention paid to it.
A typical example from a “normal” project: [...]
End of an Exception: Quality Management Integrates SAP03/04/2008 by Daniel Schubiger
For testing SAP solutions, we used to depend on experts with specialized ABAP or JAVA know-how. Consistent testing of processes beyond SAP systems was quite a challenge.
Now SAP offers SAP Quality Center by HP. It enables the customer to integrate SAP testing into a comprehensive Quality Management and testing of his IT organisation. This [...]
Application Management Reduces SAP Costs03/04/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
In the context of large commercial software installations, the opportunity to reduce costs in the long run – all through the life cycle of the systems – is tremendous. Four fields of Application Management, pragmatically introduced and applied, are able to substantially contribute to this potential benefit.
Project Portfolio Management
A consistent Project Portfolio Management (PPM) which [...]
SAP Process Testing – Gaps to be Closed01/16/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Theory says that in order for effective business process testing to be done, testing requirements should already be deduced in the requirement’s phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). But do SAP users consistently test all the processes that are impacted by changes? Despite obvious consequences, this is hardly ever done.
Process models are not up-to-date
Many [...]