Date: 09 June 2009
Time: 8.30 am
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4
Agenda: See below

One response to the new economic reality is to focus on the organisation’s core competences and have other specialist organisations deliver your non-core activities to a high standard, underpinned by a rigorous Service Level Agreement (SLA). For many organisations the deployment of more responsive IT systems is an essential component of a new and more flexible business model.

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When implementing new software systems, quality assurance and testing is critical and can account for a significant portion of your total software deployment budget. Frequently, it is an activity that you can wholly, or in part, outsource to a specialist vendor. Outsourcing does not mean transferring the entire testing activity offshore to locations such as India. It can mean a managed service on site or a mix of both while dealing with a single local vendor.

Some of the more successful outsourcing/managed service arrangements are based on a single activity, such as performance or security testing, while retaining the overall Test management role.

On 9 June 2009, Sogeti Ireland held a three hour event in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. The event demonstrated how, through a Managed Test Service (MTS), Sogeti take responsibility for the delivery of software quality at a specified level for a defined/fixed cost.

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The presentations outlined how the first year of the Sogeti MTS costs no more than your current real cost, in the second year we commit to reducing that by 10%, followed by a further 15% in the third year. Our test professionals and guest speakers explained how MTS can fit into your overall business and IT strategy and gave a detailed check list to let you evaluate if MTS is right for you. We concluded with two case studies of successful MTS projects; an enterprise example and a single activity project (test automation) example. The event also provided an opportunity for discussion and for networking with speakers and fellow attendees.

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Event feedback:

"Well presented, good variety of case studies"

"Automated example was a real benefit"

"Discussions on cost savings were very interesting, especially the one on the percentage reduction saved"