Artificial Intelligence (AI):
Benefit More from SAP Cloud ALM
Effective test management is known to accelerate company success and therefore also plays an important role in SAP Cloud ALM – a new solution for Application Lifecycle Management. XEPTUM goes one step further by offering add-on solutions with artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the potential of SAP Cloud ALM for your testing activities.
AI is increasingly finding its way into our daily lives. Sometimes it is more noticeable, sometimes less, but we now interact with AI in our everyday lives or, at the very least, we are confronted with AI-generated suggestions. The use of intelligent technologies is also becoming increasingly widespread in our professional lives. Machine learning (ML), together with its analysis and calculation capabilities, has the potential to disruptively change business processes and workflows in companies as well as achieve enormous improvements. Not only will individual departments benefit but also IT departments and their processes.
Why Are Testing Activities Crucial for Companies?
This also applies to testing changes, irrespective of whether they are minor software changes or major release upgrades. Testing activities are crucial in order to minimize downtime and problems with production systems. Since these IT systems, especially ERP solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, represent a central critical infrastructure, any operational disruption generally comes at a high cost to a company.
However, test management poses a particular challenge for both the business itself and also IT. In order to prevent any downtime of production systems, the corresponding testing activities are often more extensive than actually necessary. Since these tests are usually conducted by department representatives, they are also an additional burden on top of the usual operational tasks.
What Are the Benefits of SAP Cloud ALM for Your Test Management?
For several years now, SAP customers have been able to use powerful tools to not only reduce this burden but also the costs associated with test management. One such example is SAP Solution Manager, which facilitates centralized application management of the SAP landscape. In recent times, SAP Cloud ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) has also become available for this purpose, and more and more customers are opting to use this tool to plan and conduct testing activities more efficiently and to allocate them to the relevant testers.
Even the standard version of the tools available today already provides initial options for reducing the effort associated with test management. Since, however, the testing area offers huge potential for optimization, the benefits of SAP tools can be maximized further through the use of supplementary AI technology. That is why we at XEPTUM are currently in the process of developing AI-based add-on solutions for test management with SAP Cloud ALM.
