As companies continue to search for better ways to achieve these fundamental aims – whilst also keeping pace with modern trends such as big data, social media and multichannel solutions – their goals are becoming much harder to realize. The increased integration and complexity of requirements placed on solution delivery lifecycles can see release schedules slip or lengthen organically over time. To successfully test business applications end-to-end, across multiple user channels and through the distributed systems landscape and proliferation of system interfaces, the organization must have the right environment, controlled change, and tailored support practices

Business benefits
The Test Environment Management (TEM) service enables organizations to speed up their software release schedules by up to 25%, cut infrastructure costs by 5-10% and increase team productivity by up to 30%.
Successful integration of development and Test Environment Management technologies and practices plays an integral role in assisting and driving many shift left outcomes that organizations are demanding. Successful industrialization of initiatives greatly improves the sustainability of organizational change and benefits realization.

Test Environment Management service addresses organizations’ key efficiency, quality and shift left objectives and challenges by:

• Minimizing the cost of testing – by utilizing smaller asset footprints to support test projects.
• Shortening the time to release – by simplifying and automating the environment delivery and support services, across development and testing.
• Ensuring the quality of testing – the environments are representative of the ‘live’ production situation, making the test fully valid.
• Improving test coverage – environments are integrated, incorporating all relevant risks and requirements.

Why Test Environment Management

Creating a Perimeter – Defining the Test Environment lifecycle and its scope

TEMs end-to-end service