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Based upon our experiences with projects using various PPM tools, we took the liberty of comparing two project portfolio management heavyweights, namely CA Clarity PPM v12 and HP PPM Center 7.5.
When it comes to project controlling and project management, CA Clarity PPM and HP PPM offer the traditional multi-project and project management functions as a [...]

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HP Service Manager is used to administer and process tickets within the framework of IT Service Management. The Service Manager adheres to ITIL V3. Various modules are used, such as incident, problem, change, etc. With the ESS (Employee Self Service) Web control surface, end users can issue their own interaction tickets, which a support technician [...]

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The new Version 10 of the HP Quality Center (QC) is now available. Yet what are the actual advantages of the new QC compared to its predecessor from a Test Manager’s perspective?

Below, I will take a look at some of the new features and changes, and I will answer the question whether one should even [...]

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HP PPM in combination with beteo’s SAP Change Control Current Practice can help SAP customers to reduce cost and risk the SAP change process.
This article summarizes the potential benefits, challenges and approaches of implementing a SAP change control solution based on HP PPM and beteo SAP Change Control Current Practice as well as illustrates a [...]

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Testing departments use HP Quality Center (QC) for quality management and testing activities. Besides managing test requirements, it also helps them to compile test plans, and to conduct and monitor testing. In addition, Quality Center gives them a way to manage all defect tracking.
However, developers often work with their own tools to manage bugs and [...]

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Test factory based on HP Quality Center is available for all SBB projects
When it came to the complex and systematic implementation of the software quality management program, SBB called upon the Swiss Application Lifecycle Management consulting company beteo. SBB is utilizing HP Quality Center in its test environment, where standardized test procedures and consistent test [...]

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In my article on SAP Change and Transport Management, I discuss the topic of “measures that ensure horizontal and vertical consistency.” After attending the TechEd Berlin 2008, it appears that SAP and its Enhanced Change and Transport System CTS+ remain unwilling to accept this challenge but instead prefer to leave it up to customers and [...]

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In beteo’s projects, HP´s Universal CMDB is often used as configuration management database in the context of Application Lifecycle Management projects. I had the opportunity to get more general uCMDB knowledge at a HP training course in Helsinki.
CMDBs (Configuration Management Databases) are used more and more consistently in enterprises in order to map and survey [...]

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Very often, the processes of change & transport and quality management in the IT organzation are technically not very tightly integrated. Although organizationally, they are well coordinated, with both processes being clearly defined, digitized, automated and constantly improved, I doubt if their integration is tight enough.

HP Software, a significant vendor not only of the process [...]

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Every software project targets at providing high-quality software within the frame of a cost and time schedule. tool-based IT test management usually accompanies the whole software development process and partly adds to reaching this goal. This includes tasks like requirements management, test planning, test design, test execution, test evaluation as well as a superordinate defects [...]

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