The document discusses the importance of properly enabling assets after procurement to ensure they are utilized to their full potential. It identifies several key stages in the asset enablement process, including project management, environmental preparation, setup and calibration, integration, training, and marketing. Effective asset enablement requires carefully managing these stages, such as developing integration flows between the asset and internal systems, providing formal training to key users, and marketing the new capabilities of the asset. Proper enablement is necessary to justify the investment and realize the full benefits of the procured asset.
How Citrix Manages Change in a Multi-App, Multi-Device, Hybrid Cloud WorldWorksoft
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Originally presented by Moazzam Naim at SAP TechEd && d-code 2014 Las Vegas.
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Nathan Sharp of Siemens Energy recently spoke at the SAP Project Management in Atlanta and shared 7 important elements for the successful adoption of automated business process validation in their organization.
Originally presented by Nathan Sharp of Siemens Energy at SAPinsider’s Project Management conference.
Boosting Automation Coverage for JDA, Manhattan, and SAP at a National RetailerWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas
One of North America’s largest food and pharmacy retailers turned to automation to boost efficiencies and quality. With Worksoft they managed to increase QA coverage for nearly 700 end-to-end business processes, reduce regression testing timelines, and reduce costs by eliminating labor with automation.
Dow Chemical Achieves Higher Quality with Less Effort Through AutomationWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Dow Chemical delivers a range manufactured products in chemicals, electronics, water, coating, packaging, agriculture and more. As a complex enterprise with over 6,000 products manufactured in 36 counties in hundreds of locations, Dow relies on a variety of enterprise applications to support their business processes. This presentation will review how Dow’s use of automation with Worksoft Certify® to ensure all business processes work from end-to-end.
Stop manual testing: Take your weekends back! Worksoft
Manual testing takes time and manually validating data is error prone. It means doing the same repetitive task over and over and for many people it's not their day job. Discover your business processes, find the real end-to-end workflow and ensure that every business process works as planned with Worksoft Automation.
How Citrix Manages Change in a Multi-App, Multi-Device, Hybrid Cloud WorldWorksoft
How Citrix validates end-to-end business processes with Worksoft automation software to save time and money – all while improving the quality of enterprise systems.
Originally presented by Moazzam Naim at SAP TechEd && d-code 2014 Las Vegas.
7 Tips from Siemens Energy for Success with AutomationWorksoft
Nathan Sharp of Siemens Energy recently spoke at the SAP Project Management in Atlanta and shared 7 important elements for the successful adoption of automated business process validation in their organization.
Originally presented by Nathan Sharp of Siemens Energy at SAPinsider’s Project Management conference.
Boosting Automation Coverage for JDA, Manhattan, and SAP at a National RetailerWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas
One of North America’s largest food and pharmacy retailers turned to automation to boost efficiencies and quality. With Worksoft they managed to increase QA coverage for nearly 700 end-to-end business processes, reduce regression testing timelines, and reduce costs by eliminating labor with automation.
Dow Chemical Achieves Higher Quality with Less Effort Through AutomationWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Dow Chemical delivers a range manufactured products in chemicals, electronics, water, coating, packaging, agriculture and more. As a complex enterprise with over 6,000 products manufactured in 36 counties in hundreds of locations, Dow relies on a variety of enterprise applications to support their business processes. This presentation will review how Dow’s use of automation with Worksoft Certify® to ensure all business processes work from end-to-end.
Stop manual testing: Take your weekends back! Worksoft
Manual testing takes time and manually validating data is error prone. It means doing the same repetitive task over and over and for many people it's not their day job. Discover your business processes, find the real end-to-end workflow and ensure that every business process works as planned with Worksoft Automation.
Leveraging Worksoft Beyond Test Automation at MosaicWorksoft
Originally presented by Robert Pitman at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas.
The Mosaic Company, the world’s largest combined producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash fertilizers, has automated more than 90% of their critical business process testing for SAP in North America. In this presentation, Robert Pitman describes Mosaic’s use of Worksoft for test automation, and numerous additional benefits of the Worksoft platform.
Gear Manufacturing Support - Accialini Training & ConsultingNicola Accialini
Accialini Training & Consulting provides support in Gear Manufacturing. Please visit our website www.accialiniconsulting.com or send us an email at info@accialiniconsulting.com for additional info.
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How Can Test Automation Validate the End-to-End Business Process to Help Ensu...Worksoft
Metso is realizing 97% time savings over manual approaches to quality assurance with automated end-to-end business process validation with Worksoft.
Originally presented by Krista Männistö of Metso and Rich Lock of Worksoft.
Find more details on our blog: https://www.worksoft.com/how-metso-is-realizing-97-time-savings-over-manual-approaches-to-quality-assurance
How AFourTech Helped A Leading Mobile Device Management Player With Regressio...AFour Technologies
Client was struggling with regression testing activities. Significant time was being spent by the client team in certifying release candidate builds/beta builds. It was taking lot of time to execute test cases manually and client had to maintain sizable team of manual regression testers. Client tried different automation tools and the effort was not successful.
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Wo...Worksoft
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Worksoft Test Automation
https://www.worksoft.com/events/how-applied-materials-deploys-faster-sap-projects-and-boosts-quality-with-test-automation
These slides and embedded webinar covers how to:
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-Rapidly create and update appropriate test sets and data
-Efficiently validate the test assets that changed before it goes into production
Good Workshops (formerly called JAD sessions) take time and effort to prepare. You need to pick solid Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to participate. But good SMEs don't suffer fools--they expect the Facilitator to do their homework to learn the business and the systems. Workshops are not about educating the Facilitator. Workshops are about guiding the SMEs to transform their knowledge into a well-conceived new solution.
Leveraging Worksoft Beyond Test Automation at MosaicWorksoft
Originally presented by Robert Pitman at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas, Texas.
The Mosaic Company, the world’s largest combined producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash fertilizers, has automated more than 90% of their critical business process testing for SAP in North America. In this presentation, Robert Pitman describes Mosaic’s use of Worksoft for test automation, and numerous additional benefits of the Worksoft platform.
Gear Manufacturing Support - Accialini Training & ConsultingNicola Accialini
Accialini Training & Consulting provides support in Gear Manufacturing. Please visit our website www.accialiniconsulting.com or send us an email at info@accialiniconsulting.com for additional info.
Please don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter!
How Can Test Automation Validate the End-to-End Business Process to Help Ensu...Worksoft
Metso is realizing 97% time savings over manual approaches to quality assurance with automated end-to-end business process validation with Worksoft.
Originally presented by Krista Männistö of Metso and Rich Lock of Worksoft.
Find more details on our blog: https://www.worksoft.com/how-metso-is-realizing-97-time-savings-over-manual-approaches-to-quality-assurance
How AFourTech Helped A Leading Mobile Device Management Player With Regressio...AFour Technologies
Client was struggling with regression testing activities. Significant time was being spent by the client team in certifying release candidate builds/beta builds. It was taking lot of time to execute test cases manually and client had to maintain sizable team of manual regression testers. Client tried different automation tools and the effort was not successful.
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Wo...Worksoft
How Applied Materials Deploys Faster SAP® Projects and Boosts Quality with Worksoft Test Automation
https://www.worksoft.com/events/how-applied-materials-deploys-faster-sap-projects-and-boosts-quality-with-test-automation
These slides and embedded webinar covers how to:
Proactively understand the impact of transports on target systems
-Mitigate risk by pinpointing relevant test assets and identifying gaps in coverage
-Rapidly create and update appropriate test sets and data
-Efficiently validate the test assets that changed before it goes into production
Good Workshops (formerly called JAD sessions) take time and effort to prepare. You need to pick solid Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to participate. But good SMEs don't suffer fools--they expect the Facilitator to do their homework to learn the business and the systems. Workshops are not about educating the Facilitator. Workshops are about guiding the SMEs to transform their knowledge into a well-conceived new solution.
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Every successful organization across the corporate world is not just made of efficient employees or some talented minds, but also with pro-active and passionate leaders. And becoming a leader is something you can’t learn from books. It is the culmination of years of experience, creativity, dedication and most importantly acquiring the ideal leadership skills through corporate training.
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Data file handling has been effectively used in the program.
The automated cosmetic shop management system should deal with the automation of general workflow and administration process of the shop. The main processes of the system focus on customer's request where the system is able to search the most appropriate products and deliver it to the customers. It should help the employees to quickly identify the list of cosmetic product that have reached the minimum quantity and also keep a track of expired date for each cosmetic product. It should help the employees to find the rack number in which the product is placed.It is also Faster and more efficient way.
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Pat Reed, Principal Consultant, iHoriz, Inc.
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Loss of material benefits of utilizing the an Agile methodology (increasing the cost and risk of software development)
Blocking large scale and enterprise adoption of Agile and residual benefits
Creating inconsistencies in interpretation of project cost accounting and defeating FASB’s original intent of generating an accounting standard to protect investor confidence
Increasing the risk of over-expensing software development costs that should be capitalized
Increasing the risk of false audit findings and possible mis-reporting of financial statements
Limiting organizations and industry from fully adopting and leveraging the benefits of an Agile Software Development Methodology
Possible taxation increases, higher volatility in Profit and Loss (P&L) statements and unnecessary manual tracking of programmer and Dev Op hours
Inappropriately expensing Dev Ops and possibly causing unnecessary and inappropriate timetracking
Missed opportunities for innovation and automation
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We’ll start with a quick review of the problem and define acceptance tests and success metrics consistent with accepted government accounting standards and collectively (or in small working groups) share ideas and design a framework; applying critical thinking tools – (Mental models and Ladders of Inference to increase our understanding of how we think; and challenge mental models to effectively solve problems.
Learning Outcomes from the workshop have potential to be extensible to address related challenges of internal and external audits and remediation of findings; Sarbanes Oxley and General Computer Controls compliance; Regulatory Industry Compliance, etc.
ROLE OF iSAFE/iMobi IN SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF THE DEVOPS ENVIRONMENTIndium Software
IP-led test automation framework supported by blueprint
for product development in Devops environment can
ensure automation in the true sense.
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development. It facilitates closer integration of development and operations
teams, reducing the time needed to develop and deploy a product. However,
it is still in its early stages and the teams continue to work in silos due to the
different kinds of tools they need suited to their needs.
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automated alerts and shorter testing periods, thus aiding in the quick time-to-market
needs of the organizations.
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Offers a lean, clean set of modules that make up the core of ERP.
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The “five M’s.”
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THE POWER OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND POSITIVE TRANSFORMATION ON BUSINESSES.pdfPaul Mbua
The training focused on The Power of Digital Technologies and the positive transformation they can have on their businesses.
Objectives Included:
•Clear Understanding of digital transformation
• Assessing your level of digital transformation
• Things to Consider in your digital transformation journey
• Digital transformation framework and strategy
• Effective use of tools and their Application
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3. Asset Enablement and Calibration
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FEATUREFEATURE
ASSET ENABLEMENT AND
CALIBRATION PART 3
BY RIAN VAN DER MERWE
During my twelve years as a consultant in the asset environment, I have lost track of how
many assets I have seen that have never been utilised to their full potential or never even
been taken out of their boxes. Asset enablement is all about making sure that the asset
that is put to work is delivering the best service for its purpose and therefore justifying the
expenditure thereof.
The enablement phase is post procurement. At this
stage the investment has been committed to and
the focus shifts to enabling this asset to function
properly.
There are a number of potential stages in the
enablement phase, including:
• project management
• environmental preparation
• setup, install, configure and calibrate
• integration
• training
• marketing.
Each of these points will be briefly discussed
below.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Most enterprise clients register an official project
when implementing new assets, processes or
systems. A project manager is then appointed and
given key deliverables and a timeline to enable the
product within a specified budget.
Project management is one of the key components
of enabling a new asset correctly. Often there are a
number of role players in a company that each play
an essential part in the enablement of an asset.
These role players can potentially be individuals
from finance, procurement, IT, legal services, etc.
A project manager should be a neutral party that
assists to obtain the correct level of input from
internal and external role players in order to meet
the set deliverables.
ENVIRONMENTAL PREPARATION
Different assets would have different requirements.
In the case of a large digital printer for instance,
one would consider the following factors from
an environmental perspective to ensure that the
environment is correctly prepared for installation:
• Circuit breaker on the DB board to support the
device.
• Sufficient power and network points should
be available.
• Sufficient space for the device footprint to
allow for opening of side doors and pulling
finishers forward on rails.
• Sufficient ventilation.
• Room temperature control.
• Access control.
SETUP, INSTALL, CONFIGURE AND CALIBRATE
I have just purchased a new laptop and have
experienced afresh how much effort is required
after taking the product out of the box before it can
replace my old machine. In order for me to use the
new machine I had to do the obvious, like charging
the batteries and switching it on, change power
connectors and screen output ports, configure
software, load all my personalised applications,
configure the settings, transfer my data, etc. The
enablement of a tool that was designed to be ’plug
and play’ took me five days. In the past I have taken
short cuts and was eventually forced to format my
machine and do it properly.
Additional to the setup and configuration, I read the
tutorials and electronic manual on my new product
and found that it had powerful advantages to my
old machine. Had I not read this, I would have
continued to use this product in the old fashion
that I was used to and would not get the benefit of
wonderful time-saving features.
The setup and installation process of a complex
asset requires a step by step process to setup,
configure and install. Even seasoned technicians
make configuration errors in complex installations.
For this reason it is strongly recommended
to request that installation personnel use an
installation guide to limit potential errors.
The following additional documentation should be
provided by the installer as proof that the asset
was installed correctly:
• A completed installation checklist.
• A calibration certificate.
• A Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI) checklist.
• A passed product test certificate.
• The product warrantee activation.
Documentation like these will ensure that a
product is installed correctly and is ready for use.
These documents should also be filed appropriately
for any future reference.
INTEGRATION
Often companies take almost the entire lifecycle
of an asset before they have completed and
matured an asset integration into essential back-
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end systems and processes. Even though there is
an excitement to start using the new asset and
integration might delay the launch with weeks
or even months, it is nothing compared to the
efficiency that you would gain when you complete
the integrations upfront.
Integrations require specialists from both your
internal systems as well as the asset supplier.
Once the architecture of both ends are understood,
a flow diagram should be drawn up and approved
by both parties. Once the flow diagram is approved,
both parties will develop the required plugin to
enable the integration. The integration should first
be tested in a controlled environment and provided
that it passes all tests, be introduced into the
production environment.
TRAINING
It goes without saying that an essential part of the
enablement of a new asset involves appropriate
training. There are often multiple role players that
have different responsibilities regarding the asset
that might require different levels of training, such
as operators, administrators, first line support, etc.
It is generally preferred that the suppliers offer
more formal training with a testing process, (even
if it is a practical test) to ensure that the required
skills to operate the asset is properly instilled.
MARKETING
A new asset provides an opportunity to market the
added opportunities and capacities it brings to your
clients. Companies buy assets with the core aim
to reap a return on their investments. Therefore,
besides the fact that the new asset provides
the ideal opportunity to engage with clients, the
interaction would in return lead to turnover which
is the commonly accepted test of a successful,
enabled asset.
Rian van der Merwe +27 (0) 83 257 2601
(+27 11) 234 8116 rian@fine-print.co.za
THE INTEGRATION SHOULD FIRST BE TESTED IN A
CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT AND PROVIDED THAT
IT PASSES ALL TESTS, BE INTRODUCED INTO THE
PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT.