Acando establishes own Competence Center for Test Management
With the successful establishment of a competence center, the Management and IT consultancy Acando is meeting the increasing demand for strategic test support. The unit with its nearly 20 members combines industry knowledge with methodical expertise while accompanying companies with targeted consultation services along their software tests.
The experts cooperate across locations and departments and are regularly certified by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and the German Project Management Association [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement – GPM]. Acando’s customers are supported in their projects by industry and technology professionals. “The demands for high-quality tests often conflict with budgeting and scheduling. Also companies face major challenges with regard to legal and content-related requirements for software systems; these challenges can only be faced with structured tests,” explains Waldemar Prokscha, Team Manager Business Consulting at Acando on establishing the competence center.
Acando has carried out successful test projects for retailers, logistics companies, various banks and financial service providers. Customers benefit from their decision to give test projects to a professional service provider; Senior Consultant Sven Murner elaborates: “Using our procedure, tests are processed more quickly because they are well structured and automated at proper occasions. There is more planning assurance for going-live and the risk of detecting errors too late is reduced to a minimum, thereby also saving costs.”
The fact that companies are currently concerned with strategic and automated tests is demonstrated not only by the many requests made with the consulting company, but also by the well-attended events of the competence center.
The next webinar about strategic test management will take place on October 20, 2011.
Further information is available from:
Guido Ahle, Managing Director, Acando GmbH
+49 40 822259-150
Nicole Segerer, Marketing Manager, Acando GmbH
nicole.segerer@acando.de, +49 40 822259-205
About Acando
Acando is a consulting company that in partnership with its customers identifies and implements sustainable business improvements through information technology. Acando provides a balance between high customer value, short project times and low total cost. Acando has annual sales of about EUR 170 million and approximately 1,000 employees in five countries in Europe. The company is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic exchange. Its company culture is based on the core values of team spirit, results and passion. www.acando.com