Zephyr

Reduce your overall Total Cost of Ownership

Investing in enterprise-class quality management software does not have to be expensive. In fact, a strategic investment in Zephyr will save your organization significant capital if you are currently using a legacy test management system, and offers great ROI for teams who are using open source tools, Excel, or other entry level tools. Savings are attributed to many areas including better organization, less expensive deployment models, minimalistic administration, real-time updates, drastically improved reporting, resource assignments, web UI versus client application, and productivity improving tester specific desktops.

Significant Savings over legacy systems

Companies considering making the transition from legacy tools stand to benefit immensely. Legacy tools have a single repository, which over time become a massive, ineffective way to manage test assets. Finding specific information or individual test cases can be time-consuming. Teams unable to reuse their efforts, are forced to recreate them each time, costing them valuable time. As more data is entered into the system with manual testing processes or automation activities, the performance of the system will degrade.

Legacy solution architectures and low end tools are built on architecture that does not push information to the user community. Imagine that a test manager has assigned the day's efforts to their team, but priorities need to change after a few hours based on a critical bug that was found or specific customer requirements that need to be addressed. Zephyr pushes all updates to the user's desktops so there is never a moment where the team does not know what they should be working on. With other tools, team members might not realize they need to repriotize unless there is a team meeting, or they proactively refresh their screens. This inability for other solutions to communicate daily and critical information to the team in real time costs time, money, and causes rework.

Mounting costs as testing becomes globalized

Reporting processes with other tools are expensive and ineffective. Quality teams may meet for hours daily to discuss testing priorities, review individual productivity, and analyze project status. In preparation for the meetings, team leads must meet with individual contributors, data must be collected and conference calls must be held with offshore project managers. This preparation is often completed hours before meetings resulting in inaccurate data. With Zephyr, all release, project, and departmental information is automatically updated in real time automatically. The data is then displayed in out-of-the-box or customized charts and graphs, as well as dashboards that are available to everyone. With Zephyr, every team member is always working with live, accurate, and up to date data that saves businesses time and money.

Leverage the Cloud

One of the more significant areas where companies stand to derive significant savings is through the ability to deploy Zephyr via a cloud based SaaS implementation, or the preconfigured software stack that has every necessary component. From a SaaS perspective, starting with the implementation phase, teams save time in money by not requiring IT to acquire any hardware or allocate resources to install server side software or client side GUI's as well as set up any application servers, web servers or database servers. Moreover, a SaaS implementation does not require any backups, any planning for software upgrades, or a disaster recovery plan.

Should a business elect to deploy the software on their premise, Zephyr's innovative platform is the right choice. Zephyr offers a complete enterprise software stack that includes a web server, application server, reporting server, database, and more. The software has been built with enterprise reliability, scalability and performance as the core goals.

Zephyr saves any business money through its SaaS or complete software stack options. Companies have ultimate flexibility by being able to move from one deployment to the other at any time without losing any functionality or data.