The Cost of Inefficient Test Environment Management

Do you know how much inefficient Test Environment Management is costing you?

One thing that stands out from our discussions with organisations in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe is the distinct lack of awareness when it comes to how much Non Production Environments can cost an organisation.

When it comes to Controlling Test Environment Costs, most organisations still manage their environments inefficiently through the use of manual, error-prone, and decentralised methods such as spreadsheets, email, and shoehorned intranet sites.

Which don’t help a large organisation run the day-to-day operations efficiently, let alone provide any meaningful decision-making capability for driving proactive innovation through the organisation.

Now, this may not sound like such a big deal when Non-Production is effectively the “ugly stepchild” of Production, right? Well, when you consider some industry statistics, the importance of the story starts to show;

Over 50% of an organisation’s Infrastructure, licensing, and associated Services spend is for non-production environments.
95% of Organisations have no idea what their environments look like.
20% of the development and Test cycle productivity is lost due to Test Environment Issues, which leads to the last one.
The #1 cause of IT project delays, late time to market, and release-related issues is Non-Production Environments and Test Data.

Speaking from prior experiences while working on a billion-dollar transformation programme, each delay costs the programme half a million dollars per day.

Test cycles were often delayed by weeks, sometimes months, often due to inefficient Test Environments not being fit for purpose or instability caused by poorly coordinated deployments and changes, all managed in spreadsheets and email.

One of the main issues is that no one knew what the non-production environments looked like, and you can’t manage what you don’t know.

When you consider all of the above and that technology is the backbone of any organisation, inefficiencies can cost an organisation up to 5% of its overall IT spend.

The story and importance of effective Test Environments Management hits the bottom line of how well an organisation is performing for its customers, employees, and ultimately its shareholders.

Enov8 has charged itself with delivering a unique solution to the problem with its IT and Test Environments Management platform, EcoSystem.

enov8’s EcoSystem is an extensible IT and Test Environment Management Platform, inclusive of;