Worksoft Blog

In my last post I talked about how the business SME is overworked and “chained” to the SAP testing effort. And while Worksoft Certify does reduce their time and effort by allowing tests to be automated and run as soon as the functionality is ready, the fact of the matter is that the SME still has to be involved to some degree. There’s just no way around it.

If you or any of your colleagues are attending SAP® SAPPHIRE NOW / ASUG Annual Conference 2012 in Orlando, we encourage you to stop by and visit with the Worksoft team at our exhibit booth #3331 located on the show floor.

Worksoft co-recorded a podcast with IBM to discuss how our solutions jointly can help accelerate SAP implementations and maintenance much faster, and at a lower cost.

As I was talking with one of our prospects the other day it occurred to me that they really don’t understand what happens on a daily basis to get their SAP process testing and validation accomplished. (It's not their fault - a lot of companies don't know)

Many companies tell us that they struggle with automated testing of SAP Enterprise Portal applications and systems (now known as SAP Netweaver Portal). This is particularly true for those organizations that have attempted to use legacy script-based testing tools, primarily because despite the significant ongoing investment, tests developed with them are extremely difficult to maintain - especially when it comes to SAP Portal - regardless of how pretty the demo is!

I recently found myself staring at a pile of parts for a dollhouse I bought my daughter.  As I sat there desperately trying to fit screw MM into hole H on board C and affixing it to bracket A, I realized that when I was looking at the gloriously assembled and complete product at the store, I had no clue what I was getting myself into.  It didn’t help that my 2 year old was now circling me like a vulture over its prey, just waiting for her new toy to rise from this pile of parts into her new favorite play thing.  It was then I truly understood why you should never trust a demo.

As nearly every SAP customer knows, “Extended Support” of many earlier versions of their software will end by March 31, 2013, causing many companies that have delayed their SAP upgrades to now be faced with a large and potentially disruptive effort in a compressed timeframe.

I recently came across a very interesting term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller called “Ephemeralization”. It is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”

Today Worksoft sent out a press release where we discussed the expansion of our customer base, our global reach and product offering in 2011.

Ever wonder why so many people think doing the same thing – over and over – will eventually give them a different (successful) outcome?  What about companies?  I’ve found in my years of work in PLM and test automation that most companies fall into two basic groups: