The App Effect traces the effects of the current mobile revolution. “Social is the new capital” is the conclusion of the ten app effects presented in book. The unprecedented success of smartphones, tablets and app stores has created a watershed in our information society.  Sogeti’s trend lab VINT is mapping the implications of this new post-PC era for people, corporations and society. According to their predictions, as people become fully addicted to apps by 2020, corporations need to transform to become “social businesses”.

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TMap NEXT® Testing Clouds is an innovative book on Testing Clouds for the QA early adopter. This book is different from the TMap® book series because, instead of a step-by-step guide, this book describes the cloud business model for testing, the evolution of business technology and steps the testing profession and Sogeti is taking in undertaking cloud projects.
 
TMap NEXT® Testing Clouds explains that the cloud is a business model or platform on which testing must be carried out just like any other service. It enables convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.
 
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The World Quality Report 2011-2012 is the third in a series of annual surveys examining the state of application quality and testing practises across industries and geographies. Since 2009, the Capgemini Group and HP have published the annual report to provide insight into the latest trends in application quality, methodologies, tools, and processes. As in previous years, the report includes detailed profiles on the state of QA in a number of specific industries: Consumer Products, Retail, and Distribution; Energy, Utilities, and Chemicals; Financial Services; Healthcare and Life Sciences; High Tech; Manufacturing; Public Sector; and Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment. In addition, this year’s report also includes summaries examining IT trends and quality practices from a regional perspective across nine different geographies: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Nordic Region, North America and United Kingdom.

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Seize the Cloud will serve as your guide through the business and enterprise architecture aspects of Cloud Computing. In a down-to-earth way, Cloud is woven into the reality of running an organization, managing IT and creating value with technology. This book has a positive note without turning evangelical or overly optimistic: it does not shy away from the barriers that could stand in the way of adoption. As a final dose of reality, eleven cases can be found in between the chapter in which leading organizations share insights gained from their experience with Cloud.

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ISBN: 978-90-75414-32-5

Har systemet riktig produktkvalitet, og er risikoene kjent ved produksjonssetting? Det er sjelden at testere har et formelt ansvar for å godkjenne eller underkjenne en produksjonssetting. Prinsippet er at testleder avgir informasjon om status til sine ledere. Vi er alle i samme båt, men det er en leder som tar beslutningen om systemet skal produksjonssettes. Det er denne lederen som vil møte pressen dersom et samfunnskritisk system har feilet etter produksjonssetting. Av og til må man ta ubehagelige beslutninger fordi en lov trer i kraft, et system må på luften før konkurrenten osv. Det er viktig å ha riktig bakgrunnsinformasjon når beslutningen skal tas. Hva betyr informasjonen som fås fra test for produktkvaliteten og risikoene ved produksjonssetning?

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The growth of Cloud-based computing is outstripping even the most optimistic predictions. That growth is based on a compelling value proposition: speed to market, agility to bring forward or retire service, and the chance to move expenditure from capex into opex. For software testing, Cloud also offers a range of opportunities for reduced cost testing. This paper looks at how testing can be revolutionized through the evolving Testing Cloud models, outlines the potential benefits and evaluates the challenges, the services being developed and provides an outlook for Cloud Testing.

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“Don’t Be Evil”, yet another book from Sogeti research institute VINT, brings food for thought. The title stands for honest decision-making coupled with a constant focus on long-term objectives and the abandonment of opportunistic short-term thinking. As such the Don’t Be Evil imperative may mean a great deal for your economic activities and the way that you deal with employees, customers and partners. Especially in tough times. The book is a source from which to draw the inspiration necessary to counter the effects of the crisis and to move towards a prosperous future.

ISBN: 978 90 75414 30 1

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Employees of every company can deliver bigger achievements if organized in communities instead of only teams and if we let them collaborate in other ways than just purely functional. What is required to accomplish this is a social collaboration platform. A combination of software like MySpaces, Facebook or Digg. But also like Youtube or Wikipedia. This kind of social software is very effective in creating communities and utilizing crowd-power. This enables what we call the Intelligent Organization. To transform an organization into an Intelligent Organization is not just a matter of making available such a social platform. Many activities and a structured approach is necessary to get the platform accepted and to bring it alive.

The book TeamPark consists out of two parts that can be read as two separate books. The first part is called From Crowd to Community and describes in a sometimes hyperbolical but always fun to read way Sogeti's vision on Web 2.0 and inspires the reader to enter a new world where we all collaborate in new ways. The second part is called TeamPark Platform and Method. This part describes what Sogeti considers to be a true social platform and the method, the trajectory, organizations have to follow to utilize a successful social collaboration platform.

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Why this brochure? Clients, suppliers and employees who interact with Sogeti see an efficient, commercial, technological organization, but there is ‘another side’ that we want to make more visible: to explain what it means to work at Sogeti, our vision of CSR and where we are focusing our CSR energies. This brochure details concrete initiatives that are having a modest, but positive, impact on those less fortunate both near and far.

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The world’s leading approach for improving test processes has itself been improved! Sogeti’s new TPI model – TPI® NEXT – reflects the changes in today’s business dynamics and technology developments. The model still provides a step-by-step guide to developing an insight into the relative maturity of an organization’s test processes, with recommendations for gradual and controllable improvement steps, but is now more closely aligned to meeting an organization’s business goals.

ISBN: 9789072194978
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Sogeti Group has launched the latest in its series of ground-breaking thought-leadership books on test topics – End-to-end testing with TMap NEXT®. This book is the first to describe a complete and methodical approach to one of the most complex test situations facing test professionals today; the testing of a business process from ‘end to end’ through a series of IT systems and subsystems, crossing platforms and organizations, both private and public.

End-to-end testing with TMap NEXT® provides the test professional facing these challenges with the methods, techniques and tools to plan and execute the testing successfully, with less duplicate testing and faster turnaround time. The end-to-end approach is based on TMap NEXT®, Sogeti's world-leading test methodology that promotes a structured approach to consistently achieving quality software.

ISBN number: 9789072194961
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In these economically, competitively and environmentally challenging times it is imperative for manufacturers large and small to innovate further towards a seamlessly integrated fabric of information technology, digital manufacturing, simulation, robotics and physical production. The title of this book, “Virtual Concept > Real Profit with Digital Manufacturing and Simulation,” expresses this need. In five chapters the book discusses the various topics and issues that are central to the implementation and development of digital manufacturing and simulation.

The first “Welcome” chapter presents key concepts, needs and issues. These further are explored in four other chapters: “Crash Course,” “Challenges,” “Further Benefits” and “Epilogue on Vision and Reality.” Every chapter starts off with an introductory appetizer and concludes with a clear summary of the issues and solutions addressed. In between interviews with industry expert practitioners offer real-life insight. "Virtual Concept  >  Real Profit with Digital Manufacturing and Simulation" is a joint effort of Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti High Tech, explains co-author Jaap Bloem, Senior Analyst at the Sogeti Research Institute VINT.

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Improving Collaboration between people and between organizations is no longer optional if you want to survive in today’s hyper connected business world. Speed of change, unpredictability and the increasingly social nature of the marketplace make collaboration instrumental to your company’s ability to differentiate. New ways of collaboration are starting to take place within your company, across value chains and in the individual social domain of your employees. On the technology side, a volatile mix of acronyms like SOA – Service Oriented Architecture, SaaS – Software as a Service and Web2.0 is brewing that is drastically changing our view on the role and value of Information Technology. If left to chance there is little hope for success: you need a strategy. In this book we address the changes and opportunities that come with this new business world that is starting to show all around us.

The trend sketched out in this book is that of information technology increasingly encroaching on our bodies. From somewhere in the basement, an underground facility that some readers might still remember, then by way of the desktop in the office, computer technology has emphatically entered our retinas and into our experience. The eyes of the world are directed at YouTube and other social media. They announce a new era in which everyone can, in principle, use simple technology to begin his or her own media company: ‘Me the Media.’

The writers aim is to open the readers’ eyes to the completely new world that is being created. A new society with a revolutionary character, where power shifts from institutions towards connected citizens. A world  full of new media technology: from simple blogs to location-bound multimedia, ultimately producing a situation in which science fiction seems to be on the verge of becoming reality. Read more at www.methemedia.com. 

Written by Sogeti’s own test experts for both clients and test professionals, the Business Driven Test Management (BDTM) approach offers business and IT managers insight into the possibilities of exerting increased business control of the test process and can achieve a better balance between Result, Risk, Time and Cost.

The book also contains an introduction to and summary of the TMap NEXT® Test Management Approach. TMap® is the de facto industry standard for structured testing, used worldwide in public and private sector organisations.

Softwaretesting er en viktig del av utviklingen innenfor software. Mange virksomheter ser test som en ukontrollerbar del av utviklingsprosessen, og har derfor vanskeligheter med å forbedre dette. I boken Test Process Improvement, som blant annet er skrevet av en av Sogetis førende eksperter på testområdet, gir forfatterene praktiske forslag til, hvordan testprosessen kan effektiviseres og forbedres ut fra perspektiver som kvalitet, gjennomlføringstid og kostnader.

Boken beskriver Test Process Improvement-modellen, som blir testet og brukt av et stort antall eksperter på testområdet. Modellen gir brukeren et strukturert rammeverk, som enten kan anvendes til å forbedre en eksisterende testprosess eller til å starte en prosess fra bunn. Forfatterene har brukt sin omfattende ekspertise for å gi leseren praktisk informasjon og et rammeverk som gjør det mulig for leseren å tilpasse modellen til sin egen organisasjon.

TMap (Test Management Approach) er en metode til softwaretesting, som er anvendt av testeksperter fra Sogeti i Holland og Belgia. TMap er en effektiv og internasjonalt anerkjent metode, som bistår virksomheter med å spare tid og kostnader ved å skape velproduserte og driftsikre kvalitetssystemer. Boken gir leseren en introduksjon til TMap-metoden, gir støtte til' behandling' av organisatoriske og infrastrukturelle problemstillinger, og viser eksempler på forskjellige utviklingssituasjoner, hvor TMap-metoder blir benyttet.

TMap Next® er en revidert og helt oppdatert versjon af TMap®, Sogetis internasjonale anerkjente metode for strukturert test.

Boken TMap® Test Topics tar opp forskjellige temaer og deres relasjon til testmetodikken TMap®. Sogetiboken er skrevet til organisasjoner som tester og som er kjent med TMap®-metodikken og ønsker å vite hvordan TMap® kan tilpasses til deres respektive situasjon. Boken tar opp temaer som datawarehouse-testing, end-to-end-testing, TMap® og RUP, outsourcing-testing, iterativ og komponentbaseret utvikling med mer.

Boken, som er skrevet av eksperter hos Sogeti, er en konkret guide som omhandler enterprise architecture, som gjør det mulig for virksomheter å oppnå målene sine raskere. Med fokus på IT-styring innenfor organisasjonen gir leseren anvendlige verktøy, råd og strategier for å implementere og designe prosessene i virksomheten i en arkitektur som gir en oversiktlig struktur. Det er enklere å bygge videre på dette når behovet oppstår. Dynamic Enterprise Architecture henvender seg til IT-sjefer, som med bokens hjelp kan bidra til økt inntjening.

Sogetis bok "Making IT Governance Work in a Sarbanes-Oxley World" behandler både det menneskelige og økonomiske aspektet av IT-governance og behandler historikk samt konsekvensene av Sarbanes-Oxley for virksomheters IT-avdelinger. Boken gir et tydelig bilde av forholdet mellom ”corporate governance” og "IT governance”, og gir konkrete råd og tips om hvordan du effektiviserer din IT-virksomhet og viser de rapporteringsrammeverk og -verktøy som finnes, når du eksempelvis skal SOX-tilpasse din virksomhet på en smart måte.

Integrerte systemer finnes overalt. Alt fra biler og fly til Tv-apparater og mobiltelefoner kan ikke fungere uten disse. Testing Embedded Software er en verdifull guide til testingeniører, programmerer, projektledere som jobber med integrerte systemer. Dette er den første boken som gir leseren en komplett og dyp innsikt i test av integrerte systemer.

”Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice” er bok nummer to om Sogetis DYA®-konsept, en konkret og praktisk håndbok som klart og tydelig beskriver hvordan man etablerer en arkitekturbank som leverer verdi til hele organisasjonen.

Never let a good crisis go to waste! It is a perfect time to embrace the next practices that companies will need to thrive when the upturn is there: create meaningful innovation, cultivate thick value, drive bottom-up engagement and become more Googly! To know more, read Sogeti's IT Journal #4.

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