Tricentis fully rolls out AI-based test automation tool in Japan–Itochu Corporation utilizes it in migration to “S/4HANA” – ZDNET Japan

Tricentis, which provides AI-based test automation tools, held a press briefing in Tokyo on April 24th and announced its full-scale entry into the Japanese market. Tricentis Japan will be established as a Japanese corporation in February 2024, with a sales goal of 15 billion yen over the next five years.

Tricentis is a software testing tool vendor founded in the United States in 2007. Our mission is to “enable all organizations to deploy high-quality software at scale, more efficiently, and improve business outcomes” by supporting end-to-end test automation for business processes. .

Deploys test automation solutions for software development, including no-code test automation, agile test management, AI-based risk assessment, continuous performance testing, and mobile test automation. According to Damien Wong, senior vice president of Tricentis APAC, it has already been implemented by more than 3,000 companies around the world and is recognized as a leader by major industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

Mr. Wong said, “Tricentis’ continuous testing platform enables Japanese companies to drive digital transformation by delivering high-quality software quickly while reducing cost and risk. “It accounts for 41% of the continuous testing platform market, and there is huge room for growth,” he said, emphasizing the reason for focusing on the Japanese market.

Mr. Ayumu Naruzuka of Tricentis Japan

Ayumu Naritsuka, representative executive officer of Tricentis Japan, has a domestic sales strategy of (1) modernization of core business systems, (2) promotion of test automation/AI with partners, and (3) support for increasing test maturity. –The following three policies were presented.

For the modernization of core business systems, we are jointly developing a cloud migration solution with SAP Japan. Specifically, “SAP Change Impact Analysis by Tricentis” (product name on Tricentis is “LiveCompare”) for identifying test scope, “SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis” (“Tosca”) for test automation, and data alignment. The lineup includes “SAP Enterprise Data Integrity Testing by Tricentis” (“Data Integrity”) for load testing, and “SAP Enterprise Performance Testing by Tricentis” (“NeoLoad”) for load testing.

SAP solution coverage

Mr. Naritsuka said, “Currently, about 30% of the effort in digitalization efforts is done in manual testing, so we need to shift to high value-added work through test automation,” and he is particularly interested in partnering with SAP Japan. He emphasized that he will support system migration to “SAP S4/HANA” through this program.

At the same day’s briefing session, the case study of ITOCHU Corporation was introduced as a domestic company using the test automation tool Tosca.

Mr. Zenichiro Urakami of ITOCHU Corporation

According to Zenichiro Urakami, associate executive officer and general manager of IT and digital strategy at ITOCHU Corporation, the company has been using an overseas core system based on “SAP ECC 6.0” at its overseas subsidiaries and some group companies for over 20 years, but the new system is based on SAP ECC 6.0. It was difficult to respond to business processes and innovation, and the traditional processes and functions covered by ERP were no longer being used.

In order to resolve these issues, we have begun building a next-generation overseas core system based on “SAP S/4 HANA Cloud.” Based on the basic policy of “Fit to Standard,” the company aims to achieve functional expansion and long-term stable operation with an eye toward future innovation, assuming the digitization of the entire business process.

Mr. Urakami said, “Test automation using Tosca has brought revolutionary changes to our testing process, reducing test execution time by 38% and total testing man-hours by 65%, contributing greatly to the project.” ” revealed the effects of introducing the tool.

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