How Organizations Can Achieve $5 Million in Annual Value Through SAP Testing Efficiencies

IDC recently published research demonstrating that organizations using Tricentis quality assurance (QA) solutions in a SAP environment realize benefits worth an annual average of over $5 million per organization, including $3.52 million in testing efficiencies and $1.51 million in IT productivity gains. Of course, to achieve these kinds of extraordinary outcomes, it’s best to partner with a proven expert on both SAP and Tricentis solutions, such as TTC Global. In what follows we dive deeper into the IDC report and its key findings, as well as describe some of the remarkable results that TTC Global has helped customers achieve through its specialized methodologies and purpose-built tools, including application testing lifecycles cut in half, troubleshooting time reduced by 66%, and higher-quality software with 51% fewer production errors.

The Business Value of SAP Application Testing Solutions: Key Findings

Commissioned by SAP and Tricentis, IDC’s recently published whitepaper ‘The Business Value of SAP Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis’. states that “the ability to innovate and execute relies on the rapid delivery of high-quality software. This is especially critical for enterprise applications such as SAP as foundational, operational backbones and strategic assets to help drive execution and competitive advantage.”

Software plays an increasingly important role in helping to create differentiated value for customers and ensuring business resilience and adaptability. However, testing challenges—such as limited test coverage and manual testing inefficiencies—can slow deployments. Organizations that adopt automated testing frameworks, like those offered by Tricentis, save up to 36% of QA team time and increase development productivity by 20%, enabling faster, more agile delivery. IDC’s research also uncovered a three-year net present value (NPV) of $10.6 million per organization, achieving a 576% ROI and breaking even within just 8 months of deployment.

To get insight into how organizations using SAP applications tackle these challenges using Tricentis testing solutions, IDC interviewed SAP and Tricentis customers from different industries in the US and Europe.

According to the report, SAP customers using Tricentis products such as Change Impact Analysis (LiveCompare), Enterprise Continuous Testing (Tosca), Enterprise Data Integrity (DI) and Enterprise Performance Testing (NeoLoad) to cover end-to-end testing experience the following advantages:

• Increasing testing team capabilities and throughput by automating testing, applying dynamic risk analysis to ensure optimal testing coverage, and making testing more continuous;
• Improving testing quality, which results in higher-quality applications and allows fewer defects to make it into production environments;
• Facilitating more Agile and effective development activities, which improves time to market for new applications and features and increases the bandwidth of development and DevOps teams.

SAP customers participating in the IDC survey said they were using Tricentis QA solutions because of their support for multiple technologies, their efficiency for high-quality testing and their ability to deliver incremental revenue gains of $2.4 million annually per organization. They also highlighted the solutions' role in enabling scalability without additional headcount and reducing testing costs by automating 50% of test execution tasks.

How TTC Global is a force multiplier for SAP and Tricentis

TTC Global is uniquely positioned to help customers get the full potential value from using Tricentis tools on their SAP projects. TTC Global is the only global Solution Partner that is certified across the entire Tricentis portfolio of tools and has won ﮽partner of the year’ multiple times in multiple regions. Over the course of many years and over 200 SAP implementations, TTC Global has amassed a wealth of intellectual property (IP) that allows customers to get even more business value out of the SAP/Tricentis combo. Based on this vast experience, TTC Global has bundled this IP into solutions that accelerate the pace of implementation, allowing customers to roll out new features or applications before their competitors. These solutions include:

S4 QE Readiness Assessment
TTC Global offers a comprehensive S4 Readiness Assessment to ensure your organization is fully prepared for a successful S4 migration. This service evaluates your existing quality assurance processes, tools, and team capabilities, identifying gaps and areas for improvement. By focusing on readiness, TTC Global ensures your migration starts with a solid foundation, minimizing risks, and setting the stage for a smooth and efficient transition to S4.

SAP Quality Engineering Platform
TTC Global’s SAP Quality Engineering (QE) Platform is a robust solution designed to address every aspect of quality assurance in SAP environments. It includes Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, advanced Test Optimization techniques, and Test Automation tools to accelerate testing. Additionally, the platform incorporates Performance Engineering and Data Quality Engineering to ensure your systems are both high-performing and reliable. This all-in-one solution enables organizations to achieve consistent quality, faster delivery, and reduced testing costs.

SAP Accelerator Packs
TTC Global provides SAP Accelerator Packs—a pre-built suite of manual and automated SAP test cases tailored for rapid deployment. These packs allow organizations to jumpstart their S4 testing process, significantly reducing the time needed to establish testing frameworks. By leveraging these reusable assets, businesses can focus on specific testing scenarios and meet project deadlines with confidence, all while maintaining high quality standards throughout their migration journey.

Proven S4 Migration QE Methodology
TTC Global utilizes a proven S4 Migration Quality Engineering (QE) Methodology to guide organizations through every stage of the migration process. This approach includes developing comprehensive Test Strategies and Test Plans tailored to the unique needs of each project. With established standards and best practices, TTC ensures consistency and reliability in quality assurance, enabling organizations to navigate the complexities of S4 migrations with confidence and precision.

How TTC Global customers turn Quality Assurance into a profit center

As the IDC report demonstrates, quality assurance is far more than a necessary expense—it’s a strategic investment that drives measurable business outcomes. By integrating the right tools and expertise into their SAP environments, organizations can dramatically enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve better outcomes. TTC Global's customers have seen these benefits first hand:

• A food processing company undergoing an S/4HANA migration saved over 200,000 hours of manual testing and achieved 60% end-to-end test coverage, accelerating time-to-value.
• A global car manufacturer reduced test execution time by 90% and cut regression testing costs in half, allowing resources to focus on innovation.
• An oil and gas leader leveraged TTC Global’s methodologies to improve execution time by 38% and decrease maintenance issues by over 90%, ensuring greater operational stability.

With a global footprint and deep partnerships with SAP and Tricentis, TTC Global brings unparalleled expertise to help SAP users unlock the full potential of their QA initiatives. By combining proven methodologies, tailored tools, and a commitment to bringing value, TTC ensures organizations not only stay competitive but also turn quality assurance into a source of profitability and business agility. When every minute and dollar counts, partnering with TTC Global means achieving faster, more reliable results—giving your business the edge it needs in order to thrive.