WORLD’S #1 TESTING & AUTOMATION PLATFORM

The Executive Guide to

Accelerating SAP Projects with
Enterprise Test Automation
Table of Contents

03 The challenge: Digital transformation in the SAP world.

04 The problem: Traditional SAP testing is broken.
05 The problem: The cost of complexity.
06 The solution: SAP’s choice for faster, safer, lower cost releases.
07 The solution: Tricentis enterprise testing platform.
08 Result #1: Fast track innovation.
09 Result #2: Deliver change without disrupting business.
10 Result #3: Test smarter. Save a ton.
11 Why Tricentis: Enterprise grade. SAP proven.
12 Success: Case studies

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THE CHALLENGE:

Digital transformation
in the SAP world.

Today’s enterprises are driving digital transformation projects to boost

speed, agility, and innovation. To achieve this, they’re making massive
investments in their SAP systems to streamline back-end operations,
modernize front-end interfaces, and connect critical business processes
across a complex web of technologies and applications. Unfortunately,
enterprises are woefully lacking the automation that’s required to
complete these SAP projects with the necessary speed and quality.

“To adapt to what is happening in

the industry…we want to evolve our
technology strategy to be competitive
from a speed to market perspective.”
—Tina Oelschlager, Director, IT Analysis, Nationwide

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THE PROBLEM:

Traditional SAP testing

is broken.
Testing is the #1
SAP applications link every aspect of your business. This means even a barrier to speed
minor SAP update has the potential to cause major damage. The goal
of SAP testing should be to help organizations deliver safe, fast changes
and agility.
to their SAP systems. But most SAP customers rely on manual testing,
which requires high degrees of effort (often from key business users)
What impedes the delivery
but provides low amounts of risk prevention in return. This broken
of innovative software?
process slows down innovation and adds to your project costs while
Testing
leaving your business vulnerable to downtime.

Planning

“We are constantly iterating and improving

the business applications that are critical Code Dev

for supporting customers and users.

However, prior manual testing processes Code Review

were inefficient and tedious.”

—Sujit Unni, Vice President of IT, Vantiv

Source: GitLab, Global Developer Report, 2019

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THE PROBLEM:

The cost of complexity.

Broken SAP
The complexity of SAP software makes it difficult to know which
changes pose risks to your end-to-end processes. When SAP testing is
testing leads to
broken, risky changes result in costly business downtime. This forces hypercare.
many organizations to rely on special “hypercare” periods after SAP
updates. During these periods, emergency teams spend weeks—even Manual testing requires high effort
months—fixing problems that their manual testing process did not but provides low risk reduction,
catch. Innovation stalls. Productivity plummets. Costs skyrocket. leading many companies to rely on
hypercare to stabilize business after
an SAP update.
100 SAP Testing Method*

80 90% of SAP
customers rely on
manual SAP testing
60 involving key users

High Effort, Low Risk Reduction Slow, Painful, Expensive Post Go-Live Hypercare
40

Effort Resource costs

20 Method
Opportunity costs
Automated Risk Reduction
Manual Business downtime costs
0

* ...Tricentis survey, largest 3,000 global SAP customers

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 THE SOLUTION:

SAP’s choice for faster, safer,

lower cost releases.

Tricentis offers a new and fundamentally different way to test

SAP changes. One that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and
intelligently driven by AI. And one that’s designed to accelerate
SAP innovation from the get-go. Thanks to our track record of
success helping SAP customers like McKesson, Vodafone, and
Coca-Cola, SAP chose Tricentis as their partner for continuous
test automation.

“Our customers will benefit tremendously

from SAP’s partnership with Tricentis.
We will ensure that the adoption of SAP
software is accelerated and that the costs
of testing are significantly reduced.”
—Marc Thier, SVP Application Lifecycle Management, SAP

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THE SOLUTION:

Tricentis enterprise
testing platform.
AI-driven,
The Tricentis platform simplifies and automates the process of
SAP testing. Using the platform, you can accelerate SAP testing by
continuous
10x or more while dramatically reducing the risks to business. This testing for SAP.
results in massive savings—as much as 50% or more reductions
in your testing costs. The result? Faster innovation, smoother The Tricentis platform shows
upgrades, and better business outcomes. you the risks you need to test,
runs the right tests to address
those risks, and tells you when
NU OU S T E S
it’s safe to release.
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What to test? • 10x faster testing

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DESIGN AND DEVELOP CH A N G E RELEASE • 50% lower costs

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RESULT #1:

Fast track innovation.

Digital
When it comes to SAP testing, speed changes everything.
transformation
By replacing slow manual testing with our AI-driven,
codeless platform, you can quickly achieve 10x faster requires
testing times. This lets you shift to Agile and make continuous
weekly (even daily) SAP releases a reality.
testing.

“We cannot have people spending their DE P

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time on software testing tasks that can DE AS Y

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and should be automated. There is much
Dev Ops

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higher-level work to do. We need future-

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oriented staff, and we can’t afford to

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make them suffer by asking them to do NTINUOUS ON
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needless manual testing.”

Test Automation: Continuous

—Andreas Kranabitl, CEO, SPAR

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RESULT #2:

Deliver change without

disrupting business.
Test less.
Our AI-powered change impact analysis tool, Tricentis LiveCompare, Boost quality.
takes the complexity out of SAP testing. It tells you exactly what to
test to address the risks in an SAP update. So instead of testing too
End hypercare.
much, too little, or the wrong things entirely, your teams test the
right things. This provides 90%+ risk coverage for only 15% of your
# Objects used in an SAP System
current test effort. Test times shrink. Quality soars. And there’s no
more need for hypercare.

Traditional impact analysis narrows the

test scope down to impacted objects.

LiveCompare reduces
the test scope down to
the most-at-risk objects.
“LiveCompare ensures we’re testing the right
things and spending resources in the right -85%
places…That has translated into a direct
resource savings of 30-40%.”
0
Used Impacted Most-at-risk objects
—Ray Berry, Application Development Lead, The Coca-Cola Company (AI-powered assessment)

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RESULT #3:

Test smarter.
Save a ton.
The Tricentis
Automation saves more than time. By reducing test volume and
automating manual tasks, the Tricentis platform shrinks your
platform fixes
testing costs by as much as 50%, or more. The savings don’t stop SAP testing.
there. Fixing SAP testing minimizes expensive business downtime,
eliminates the need for costly hypercare periods, and improves Tricentis test automation fixes
the overall cost-to-value of your SAP initiatives. SAP testing by providing high risk
protection for low effort, speeding
innovation while eliminating the
need for expensive hypercare.
100 SAP Testing with the
Tricentis Platform
80

Over 90% of tests

60 are automated,
minimizing stress
on key users
Low Effort, High Risk Reduction Slow, Painful, Expensive Post Go-Live Hypercare
40

Effort Resource costs

20 Method
Opportunity costs
Automated Risk Reduction
Manual Business downtime costs
0

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WHY TRICENTIS:

Enterprise grade. SAP proven.

Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise testing solutions.

With more than 1,800 customers around the world, including
brands such as McKesson, Vodafone, and Coca-Cola, we are
the undisputed leader in SAP test automation. Our modern,
AI-driven platform is built from the ground up to support
fast, safe releases, while reducing costs. As our customer,
you’ll rest easy knowing our long-standing partnership with
SAP and proven track record means we have the experience
to help you make your SAP initiatives succeed.

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CASE STUDY

How one of the world’s largest

food processors accelerated
delivery to S/4HANA.

THE SITUATION
• Massive SAP S/4HANA transformation project. Customer had 2% test Snapshot
automation rates with over 350+ licenses of HP and Worksoft
• Expanding, complex infrastructure of shared system components Time to market 8x
with SAP acceleration
• Become more Agile and DevOps focused
Risk reduction 75%
THE NEED (was 38%)
• Test automation for SAP from ECC, Fiori and S/4HANA to APIs and
custom apps Cost savings 58%
• Convert Manual Testers to Automation Specialist
($44M > $18M annually)

WHY TRICENTIS
• Ease of use
• Comprehensive regression tests across SAP and non-SAP systems
• Extensive platform and protocol support
• Total cost of ownership

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CASE STUDY

How a large, global technology

manufacturer more than
tripled their releases.

THE SITUATION
• Desperately needed help managing and supporting SAP packs and Snapshot
custom releases
Number of releases +350%
THE NEED using LiveCompare
• Impact analysis tied directly to test automation efforts and integration
with ALM solution Custom testing (reduction) 99%

WHY TRICENTIS Defects eliminated 200+

• Smart impact analysis
• Code quality analysis
• Ongoing transactional usage analysis
• User usage statistics/analysis—our ability to identify who is doing what
and who isn’t
• Ability to seamlessly integrate with Solution Manager’s ChaRM

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CASE STUDY

How a leading energy

provider transformed
SAP testing for Agile.

THE SITUATION
• $300M digital transformation program included an “idea to production Snapshot
in 5 days” initiative
• To meet this goal, SAP teams needed to shift from quarterly releases Speed to market +16x
to Agile delivery but manual regression testing was the bottleneck
• Testing consumed 50% of the team’s software development lifecycle Reduction to overall 95%
and 30% of the team’s budget testing time

THE NEED Risk reduction 80%

• Reduce regression testing time for SAP initiatives from over a week to 1 day. (was 40%)
• Shift QA focus to address release quality/risk reduction rather than quantity
of tests completed
Cost savings 83%
• Eliminate delays related to test data preparation

WHY TRICENTIS
• Continuous end-to-end test automation
• Ease of adoption
• Risk-based approach
• Automated test data preparation/generation
• Resilience of model-based tests
• Integration into their DevOps toolchain

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