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Event Title: Managing the Quality of your ERP Applications: 12 Mistakes to Avoid and Best Practices to Adopt
Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific | 2:00 PM Eastern
Duration: 1 Hour
Ensuring quality in an ERP implementation is a major team effort—by the implementation partner, the business and technical teams, the software vendor, and the hosting provider. Testing packaged applications has unique challenges and risks. Unlike in-house applications, you need to verify the quality assertions of your ERP vendor and prove the robustness of your hosting provider's infrastructure. While you rely on your implementation partner's application experience, don't leave testing to them. Doing so can result in inadequate coverage and insufficient metrics for basing business decisions. Apply automation tools selectively or you will be doomed to manual testing for the life of the system.
In this presentation, Dan Downing of Mentora Group shines the spotlight on key mistakes that ERP implementations should avoid. They’ve been distilled from multiple ERP testing projects as part of global enterprise implementations.
You will learn:
- The 12 Mistakes to Avoid
- Their tell-tale risks
- Strategies for mitigating their impact
- Critical tools to enable repeatability
Following Dan Downing's presentation, Matt Morgan, Director of Product Marketing at Mercury will discuss best practices to reduce the risk involved in your business application initiatives. When it comes to major new ERP rollouts and upgrades, risk is high. The success of these initiatives depends on your ability to manage time, cost, and risk. Learn how Mercury best practices can help you mitigate the risk of ERP implementations, upgrades and changes while reducing change cycle times and ensuring end-to-end compliance across business applications. Also, learn how to lower cost and achieve rapid ROI in your SAP and Oracle applications.
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Dan Downing
Vice President of Testing Services
Mentora Group
Dan Downing is vice president of testing services for Mentora Group, a testing and application hosting provider. He has led multiple ERP and CRM testing project teams in manufacturing and healthcare using automated tools. Mr. Downing is the author of the 5-Steps of Web Stress Testing and has taught performance testing methodology and led load-testing projects for nine years. He is a regular speaker at STAR and Mercury conferences.
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Matt Morgan
Director of Product Marketing
Mercury
Matthew Morgan is the director of product marketing for Mercury's Quality Center and Performance Center product lines. Mr. Morgan has more than eight years of experience at Mercury, managing several product initiatives, including Mercury QuickTest Professional, Mercury WinRunner, Mercury Quality Center and Mercury TestDirector. He led the design and development of the new Mercury Business Process Testing product line, a true revolution in test design and test automation. Before joining the product organization, Mr. Morgan was responsible for building and managing the Mercury technical operations team in the Southeast. Mr. Morgan is a recognized leader in the quality assurance market and speaks at dozens and tradeshows and conferences annually. He is passionate about bringing managed quality practices to organizations to ensure high-quality business application deployment.
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