QA Strategy
FocusFrame’s SAP strategy offering emphasizes the review and evaluation of existing validation operations, provides details on best practices, and outlines a gap analysis of current and future state. Working within the Project Preparation and Business Blueprint phases of the ASAP development methodology, our consultants work with your design team, business owners, and project stakeholders to develop a best-practices plan that will cater to your unique development goals and challenges.
Functional Verification
Beginning with a clear and detailed test plan encompassing all aspects of functional verification, FocusFrame works closely with the business analysts and development team to document each business process using our APT™ methodology. Business processes are then mapped back to their respective business and systems requirements. Requirement coverage can then be tracked using tools that can integrate with SAP’s Solutions Manager.
As the business processes are being documented, FocusFrame can begin customizing our BPT Accelerator for SAP® systems. Partnering with HP and SAP, FocusFrame has developed the BPT Accelerator for SAP® systems, which is the definitive solution for SAP functional verification, providing a ready-made and custom-made package of individual and end-to-end test scripts specifically designed to be extensible to each client’s unique SAP systems environment. Utilizing our ASC™ tools, FocusFrame can auto-generate business process testing components and greatly accelerate automated test development, including custom z-transactions. Please click here for more information on the BPT Accelerator for SAP.
Once the BPT Accelerator for SAP has been installed and configured to your environment, the team can begin creating robust, end-to-end verification scripts to test your system’s functionality and identify defects. Defect management is just as important a task as any other development effort which is why we come prepared with best practices for the identification, reporting, and resolution of defects. FocusFrame will work with the test team, developers, change management, and the stakeholders to report and resolve all identified defects and risks.
Finally, once your initial release has been migrated into production, the team will work to identify and implement a core regression suite of tests to be executed following any change to the system. Please click on the following link to learn more about FocusFrame’s Functional Verification practice.
Performance Validation & Optimization
Beginning in the Realization phase, the Performance Validation and Optimization practice combines our APT methodology, along with HP's BPT suite of tools to provide industry leading services to our SAP clients. Our experience with SAP applications has allowed us to build an SAP specific approach to performance optimization, which can accelerate and enhance the performance effort from Realization through Final Preparation.
Our HP-certified consultants excel with LoadRunner, SiteScope, Deep Diagnostics, and they are equipped with a custom developed set of tools to compliment the HP software. In addition to their technical expertise, their application knowledge provides context and understanding of the business processes that exist within SAP.
Knowledge around SAP has been developed to address the architecture, scripting, monitoring, and optimization of the application. The knowledge encompasses items such as key performance indicators to be monitored, potential bottlenecks in the architecture, pre-defined functions for LoadRunner scripting, and project checklists to provide instant visibility into the progress. These materials will allow our consultants to work seamlessly with the client teams and application subject matter experts, and reduce the overall performance risk of your SAP implementation.
Post Production Monitoring & Maintenance
The application management practice uses business technology optimization to provide comprehensive availability and service-level agreement monitoring for regional and global SAP solutions.
Using HP's best of breed Business Availability Center (BAC), a cohesive platform is provided that allows for the monitoring of service level compliance, end-user experience monitoring, system availability monitoring, planned/unplanned change management, as well as SAP application problem diagnosis.
SAP system performance can be quickly accessed from a consolidated dashboard to gain visibility into various layers of application performance and key performance indicators. BAC provides enterprise-level monitoring and real-world visibility into your SAP application’s performance, allowing problem areas to be quickly identified and attributed to the appropriate application layer. This level of visibility is usually not found in a single tool, and is often achieved using a variety of commercial applications, rather than from a consolidated monitoring and management platform, which BAC is able to provide SAP solutions.
IT Governance
The Application Change Management Lifecycle for SAP is a complex and often manual set of processes in today's corporate environments. Archaic spreadsheets are often maintained to track changes and their dependencies upon other changes. Software releases, and bug fixes are often staggered and intermingled with business process changes. The results of such ad hoc tracking can be devastating to your business.
The Change Management extensions for ITG enable you to bring order to the chaos. FocusFrame is positioned to enable true automated Change Management for your SAP environments. With robust workflow and request tools, HP ITG has the capabilities to save countless dollars in downtime and audit penalties.