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Regain visibility, transparency, and

control over all environments that are

critical to new business initiatives.

Reduce the financial risk of release

delays and failures arising from

environment misconfiguration or

contention.

Allocate environments proactively

rather than reactively. Manage both

constraints and underutilization.

Increase environment team

collaboration and productivity

through a unified view of

environments across your

organization.

Eliminate disparate spreadsheets and

manual effort.

Applications and portfolios within your enterprise are becoming

increasingly interconnected and dependent upon one another. When an

application changes, there is a high risk of detrimental impacts on the

end-user services provided by other applications. The need to increase

release velocity is placing increasing pressure on the environment teams

managing and controlling the pre-production environment landscape.

Teams that provide test environments for critical projects are often

distributed or outsourced to technology partners, making the situation

even harder to manage. The endless meetings, miscommunications,

disparate information silos, and hidden spreadsheets prevent you from

seeing the complete picture of all test environments in your organization.

Delivery teams are frequently invalidating their tests by unknowingly

using the same environment as other teams or commencing testing in an

environment with the wrong configuration.

Failure to adequately manage environment allocations to project teams

will ultimately result in environment outages and delayed releases to

production. The financial cost of poor environment management is

substantial.

D E L I V E R F A S T E R , L O W E R R I S K

Key Bene�ts and Results

Plutora's Test Environment Manager (TEMS) enables you to manage your test environment landscape with transparency and control.

Test Environment Manager

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Plutora’s TEMS provides comprehensive pre-production

environment management capabilities across the entire lifecycle

of all environments.

By using TEMS, delivery and operations team can operate from

consistent and up-to-date information.

TEMS supports intake requests, environment change requests,

environment allocations, conflict detection, and impact analysis.

As well as comprehensive dashboards, alerts, and a robust

reporting engine.

It also tracks configuration versions and environment change

requests. It highlights all releases impacted in the event of

environment failure.

“Plutora improved our test environment management productivity by 140%.”

Martin Parker

Senior Test Environment Manager

Boots

“Plutora enabled us to improve all aspects of our test environment management service o�ering, by increasing our overall productivity by 15%”

Marc Dovico

Senior Project Manager

BT Financial Group

Solution Overview

Diagram: Test Environment Manager Workflow.

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DESIGN

CAPABILITIES

BUILD MANAGE REFRESH & REUSE

TEST ENVIRONMENT MAP TOPOLOGY

DEMAND CAPTURE

Design test environment based on current & future

test requirements,

Provision test environments based on test design and

test requirements document.

Manage and support test environments.Perform

day-to-day operations like health checks.

Clean up test environment and refresh

them for reuse.

CENTRALIZED INVENTORY DATABASE

TEST ENVIRONMENT BOOKING

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

TEST ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION

PROVISIONING CHECKLIST

AUTOMATION PROVISIONING

CI:CD TOOL ORCHESTRATION

TEST ENVIRONMENT CHANGE

DEPLOYMENT VERSION TRACKING

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

SERVICE LEVEL REPORTING

ENVIRONMENT AVAILABILITY

ENVIRONMENT USE

ENVIRONMENT SCHEDULE

ENVIRONMENT CALENDAR

CONFLICT REPORTING

DELAY SCENARIO ANALYSIS

CAPACITY MANAGEMENT

ENVIRONMENT SERVICE METRICS

FINANCIALREPORTING

TEMSLifecycle

GOVERNANCE AND REPORTING

Mitigate Project Delays from Environment Outages

TEMS minimizes or eliminates the 40% of

test time that is lost due to environment

misconfiguration, contention, or unplanned

outages. TEMS's intelligent environment

availability and allocation engine makes

sure that the right environments are

allocated to the right releases at the

appropriate time to avoid misconfiguration

or contention.

Increase Environment Management Productivity

TEMS provides a unified source of truth for

all environment-related information and

makes that information broadly accessible

throughout the cross-functional teams and

organization. By eliminating duplicate data

entry and continual reconciliation, TEMS

frees up existing resources to focus on more

valuable activities.

Integrate with Your Existing Toolsets

Plutora’s core competency is the

ability to integrate with a broad

range of technologies. These

include market-leading Project

Portfolio Management solutions

(HP PPM, CA Clarity, and

Microsoft Project),

IT Service Management Solutions

(ServiceNow and BMC Remedy), and

Application Lifecycle Management tools

(JIRA, Rally, and HP Quality Center).

Enhanced Governance and Metrics

TEMS provides test environment

governance for detecting and remediating

changes in test environments. It continually

tracks the relationship between releases,

environments, environment requests and

environment handovers over time to

produce comprehensive environment

service metrics.

Manage the Financial Aspects of Your Environments

TEMS combines environment scheduling

and configuration

capability with

relevant cost

drivers to forecast

environmental

costs and cross

charge projects

teams for actual

environment usage. A full view of all

environments, including those that are

underutilized, enables your organization

to reclaim environments faster and

reduce the overall cost of environments.

Increased Release and Environment Collaboration

Automate communication, collaboration,

and coordination between delivery

teams, release teams, and environment

teams with TEMS and eliminate manual,

error-prone hand-offs. TEMS's

comprehensive alerts and notifications

system makes sure all environment

stakeholders are aware when

environments are requested, allocated,

modified, and decommissioned.

How Plutora's Test Environment Manager Works

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