New Study from Capgemini Identifies Cloud-Based and Agile Testing as the Key Trends in Enterprise Application Quality Assurance
Paris, June 16, 2010 – World Quality Report highlights growing focus on testing initiatives as organizations continue to invest in new applications to increase business agility for competitive advantage.
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Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, together with Sogeti, its local professional services division, today released the findings of the 2010-2011 World Quality Report. This in-depth study of enterprise application quality assurance and emerging trends in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), sponsored together with HP, reveals that the majority of companies (60 percent) around the world are hosting up to 50 percent of their applications in a cloud environment.
Along with an increase in applications deployed in the cloud, organizations are also deploying agile IT delivery in their applications and infrastructure as they look to streamline operations. Close to 60 percent of respondents expect to use agile development methods to deliver new applications over the coming year. As a result, organizations are starting to adopt agile delivery methods and cloud computing technology as a part of their application quality assurance.
The report also provides a detailed profile on IT development and quality assurance trends in six specific industries: Consumer products and retail, distribution and logistics, financial services, public sector, high tech and telecoms.












