With sensors embedded everywhere, the world is becoming far more connected than ever before. From smartwatches and thermostats, to security systems, home appliances, and other evolving connected devices, the IoT world is moving past computers, tablets, and smartphones to just about every device you can imagine. The demand for connected devices is rising in unthought-of numbers, transforming the way we see, hear, and feel the world.

Ensuring business-critical data and applications are up and running at all times is paramount to business, making software testing an essential element of the software development process. While on-premises testing is widespread around the world, it requires dedicated infrastructure and tools to ensure the availability, security, and performance of applications. With business applications soaring in quantity and complexity causing growing data volumes, a sufficient amount of time and money can be required to ensure top-quality software is offered upon your release or go-live

Enterprise data consists of multiple data that resides in multiple systems. By bringing together data from heterogeneous sources, data warehouses offer a composite and collaborated platform that captures the entire data of an organization. Increased focus on data-driven decision making coupled with data center migrations and increased compliance regulations is compelling organizations to deploy top-notch data strategies. According to Gartner, poor quality of data costs an average organization $13.5 million a year. Since organizational decisions are based purely on enterprise data, having top quality data is essential for business excellence, mandating the need for efficient data warehouse testing. 

With the advent of big data and analytics, cloud and mobile, independent software vendors (ISVs) are reconsidering their approach toward product development. In order to sustain, compete and maintain a competitive edge, ISVs not only have to focus on mere product development but also on product testing, upgrades, training and consulting as well as support.