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.
SAP TAOSAP and FocusFrame jointly deliver the most advanced SAP application testing solution available—SAP Test Acceleration & Optimization (SAP TAO).
With SAP TAO, you can reduce the costs and risks of releasing new SAP software and patches into production. SAP TAO consists of several best-of-breed products, including SAP Quality Center by HP, SAP QuickTest Professional by HP, and bidirectional integration with SAP Solution Manager. SAP and FocusFrame also offer performance-testing solutions using SAP LoadRunner by HP to isolate and resolve performance issues before they grind critical business processes to a halt. By leveraging these scalable testing solutions, you can ensure the quality and reliability of your SAP applications.
FocusFrame is the leading provider of SAP TAO professional services—delivering more than 60 SAP TAO projects globally in the last year. We offer in-depth knowledge of SAP applications and business processes, as well as expertise in SAP TAO testing tools, test methodology, and best practices. FocusFrame can help you achieve higher quality while reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO). Our team of SAP experts can lead your entire testing effort—from initial strategy and business-process identification, to functional and performance testing, and all the way to post-production quality assurance support and maintenance. We work closely with your project stakeholders and SAP Client Partners (CPs) and Account Executives (AEs) to ensure that projects run smoothly and successfully.
FocusFrame also offers Business Process Testing (BPT) Accelerator products to help with all your enterprise application testing efforts. Our BPT Accelerator products feature the same easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface as SAP TAO—and they integrate seamlessly with SAP Quality Center by HP, SAP QuickTest Professional by HP, and SAP LoadRunner by HP. Putting your quality assurance activities in our hands frees your time to concentrate what matters most—your business goals.
Using FocusFrame services and SAP TAO, you can:
- Increase test coverage by defining business process scripts earlier in the development stage
- Leverage FocusFrame’s years of experience ensuring SAP application quality and performance
- Use SAP’s Inspect technology to generate and update components automatically based on your standard and customized transactions
- Easily maintain scripts by editing single components that automatically apply the change to every script in your library using the same component
- Focus on testing to identify defects and potential failure points, not on script maintenance and development activities
- Test your end-to-end enterprise, including SAP and other integrated systems
- Be confident you are working with the leading global provider of SAP TAO professional services
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 PPM 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 PPM has the capabilities to save countless dollars in downtime and audit penalties.