Consolidate Pre-production Infrastructure
Many organizations are adopting centralized labs where infrastructure and environment setup are provided as a shared IT service to development and test teams. Surgient VQMS helps you slash capital and operating costs while maximizing resource utilization by effectively consolidating, pooling and allocating lab resources according to your policies.

Virtual Lab Management
IT faces constant pressure to deliver consistent levels of service despite changing business needs. Adaptive IT organizations empower end-users to self-serve while maintaining command and control. The Surgient VQMS application enables developers and testers to reliably and safely provision complex test environments 24x7 with a click of the mouse.

Test Management and Automation
Despite significant investments by enterprise IT organizations, the value of test management and automation tools is limited because the QA/Test departments are dependent on the test environment to be deployed and available. Surgient VQMS helps maximize your investments in test management solutions, such as HP Quality Center, by integrating for true end-to-end testing.

“The combination of HP Quality Center and Surgient VQMS increased testing bandwidth
10x while accelerating single application testing from 5 days to 4 hours .”
- Chris Marr, QA Lead, Sisters of Mercy Health System

To read the entire Sisters of Mercy case study, click here.

Outsourcing, Offshoring, Remote Teams
Outsourcing testing and development is now a common strategy employed by leading IT organizations, while IT operations groups continue to struggle to find the right approach for enabling those teams. Benefits can often by overshadowed by the costs and complexity of duplicate infrastructure, configurations and training. The Surgient VQMS solution provides secure access to centrally-deployed lab environments on-demand, eliminating manual provisioning work and delivering much higher utilization of expensive pre-production infrastructure.

Eliminate Time Spent Reproducing Errors
Developers waste countless hours trying to reproduce errors discovered during testing. What if you could eliminate the finger pointing and remove “it works fine on my machine” from your lexicon? VQMS helps you boost productivity and fix more defects by enabling developers and testers to easily share test environments without locking up resources.

Patch Regression Testing
Keeping pace with application and OS maintenance is a daunting task – especially for companies that operate in regulated industries where all changes, even those on the desktop, must be fully tested prior to deployment. VQMS automates parallel setup and teardown of configurations to reduce patch cycle times and Distribution Days of Risk.

On-Demand Break / Fix Environments
Replicating and resolving business user incidents has become more challenging due to the disparate number of operating environments deployed across the enterprise. Surgient VQMS enables helpdesk technicians to resolve incidents faster and improve quality of service by automating the deployment of standard client and server configurations on-demand.

Branch Office / Customer Configurations
Both IT organizations and vendors struggle to support not only the applications they've developed, but specific configurations of the software deployed at branch offices and customer locations. VQMS helps you diagnose and resolve critical issues by enabling you to replicate, manage and deploy configuration-specific environments on-demand.

Security and Virus Testing
Hardening networks and applications against viruses and other threats is an ongoing battle. Vendors face additional challenges ensuring their software is immune to attack in all operating environments. Surgient VQMS helps you perform safe and accurate threat testing by automating the setup of complex “real world” environments that are strictly isolated.