Test Environment Management

Environment issues in non-production environments can cause up to 40 % of lost time on IT projects. Test Environment Management improves quality, availability and efficiency of non-production environments to meet milestones and ultimately reduce time-to-market and costs.

SQS offers its clients a service to provision and support non-production environments across the software development lifecycle.

Service Overview

Establish environment management as a service with defined offerings for developers and testers
Define and implement processes to deliver environment services
Manage data within environments
Implement tools to improve environment delivery and efficiency

Deliverables

Environment scheduling
Defined request and support processes and SLAs for non-production environments
Measurable KPIs

Approach

Review and audit existing processes
Adapt existing processes and functions and incorporate industry best practices (including ITIL)
Improve process maturity and automate for efficiency
Integrate virtualisation, management and deployment tools with the process

The customer’s benefits at a glance:

SQS has encountered environment issues across many sectors and with a variety of situations and requirements. The value of this has been recognised by clients, and the implementation of environment management activities has resulted in great benefits, including:

Improvement in the build and deployment time of new environments
Reduction in the resources required to support and maintain non-production environments
Decreased environment downtime
Increased hardware utilisation and efficiency

The following presentations can be used to re-enforce this service: