Cognizant Solution Overview

Enabling Business Readiness Through Smart Testing of Your SAP Implementation

Need for SAP Testing SAP Testing Challenges

Cognizant SAP Testing Solution

Organizations across the globe rely on SAP applications to SAP Testing Business Challengesrun their businesses. Even though these applications generate immense business value once they are Technology changes.implemented, getting there can be a complicated and New business needs.expensive affair. Furthermore, application complexities often Regulatory compliance.grow as businesses expand –- as does the need for testing Customer dynamics.those applications before they are deployed. Therefore, time- Competitive pressures.and cost-effective testing of SAP applications is essential to continued business success. Large and complex implementations or upgrades of software

and the underlying IT infrastructure often mandates a Need for testing thorough end-to-end testing before going-live. The inherent

diversity of the testing service spectrum -- including integration, functional, non-functional, regression, unit, and user acceptance testing and automation, across ASAP phases and various types of SAP implementations (i.e., , upgrade, roll-out and instance consolidation) -- renders the process tedious thereby increasing the effort and time spent on QA. This is further aggravated when organizations do not follow best practices in testing, such as having well-structured QA governance, proven testing methodology, using solution accelerators and frameworks, etc.

Cognizant understands these challenges and has developed a complete solution for all SAP Testing needs, across industry verticals.

Tapping the deep functionality of SAP systems requires With deep understanding of our customers' business

solution partners with expertise in continuous value challenges and testing needs, coupled with our broad

enhancement and value beyond SAP. Cognizant experience and expertise in SAP Testing, we have developed

understands your SAP systems and has developed wide a solution suite that encompasses governance, best

range of services that address all of your SAP testing practices, test process & methodology, solution accelerators,

needs.frameworks and other innovations.

SAP Applications are the back bone for many businesses worldwide. Higher dependency on SAP applications. Increasing number of business users.Minimize the risk to business. Periodic enhancements or upgrade to support business operations. Introduction of new processes / functionality in applications.Solution Complexity. Integration of business process across and beyond organization boundaries. Integration of SAP applications with third-party or legacy systems.

Cognizant's SAP Testing methodology is aligned with the applications. By leveraging our specialized centers for Oracle ASAP methodology for SAP Implementation. With clearly Application Testing, Data Warehousing, SOA Testing etc., we defined phases (including entry and exit criteria for each are fully equipped to provide you with end-to-end testing phase), this methodology answers the questions related to solutions. who, what, when, where and how to do any type of testing, including integration, functional and regression testing. It also articulates the roles and responsibilities of various stake holders, from the QA and development teams through business users & the PMO.

Our innovations include ready-to-use test scenarios that can be deployed with little or no modifications on your SAP environment. We provide you with indigenously developed automation solutions such as SAP CRAFT framework for HP QTP, and SMartCATT framework for eCATT and Solution Manager. With our sound knowledge of industry-leading tools such as SAP TAO, HP BPT and Worksoft Certify, we can recommend the best tool that suits your testing needs.

“[Based on] Cognizant's expertise in systems and solutions

and testing of a broad range of enterprise products, [we have]

determined that Cognizant is best equipped to offer

comprehensive testing services...”

- Sr. VP at a large enterprise software company

Built on a strong foundation of domain knowledge, solution expertise, delivery excellence and deep SAP partnership, Cognizant's SAP Practice is uniquely positioned to cost-effectively address the business-IT challenges of customers. With our mature suite of service offerings comprised of next

Our strong relationship with SAP Labs helps us in “future generation services like SHARK & Instance Consolidation, our proofing” selected business scenarios of our customers by Cognizant 2.0 global knowledge sharing, collaboration and assessing them on the latest releases of SAP solutions, project management ecosystem and vast suite of tools, providing early feedback. frameworks and solution accelerators such as Upgrade Plus,

R-Maps, R2R Platform, & certified composites, Cognizant can help you maximize returns from your SAP investments, and

We also understand that your business demands integration accelerate time to value. of your SAP systems with other third-party or legacy

Business Benefits

Practice Overview

Early detection of defects thereby reducing the cost of post-production issues. Well-defined roles and responsibilities between various stakeholders in testing.Increased effectiveness and efficiency of testing with the right skill-mix, reusable scenarios and tools.Optimized testing of SAP implementations by reducing redundancy through the use of impact analysis tools.Maintenance effort reduced by 50% to 60% with Cognizant's SAP Testing framework.One-stop solution for all Testing/QA needs including legacy, home-grown & off-the-shelf products.

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In a time when companies are relentlessly pushing to compete better, move faster and fight harder, Cognizant is the global technology partner with one single-minded passion: Dedicating our systems expertise, industry intelligence and global resources to make your business stronger.

Note: For more information on how to drive your business results with Cognizant, contact us at or visit our website at inquiry@cognizant.comhttp://www.cognizant.com.

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