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Assess the Current System

Low code platforms offer many benefits over traditional enterprise software deployments. Most importantly, low code platforms allow development teams to focus on the business needs of users to achieve faster […]

Join Us At Enterprise Connect 2021!

VPS will be participating in Enterprise Connect 2021–an annual event that brings together corporate IT decision-makers together with the industry’s vendors, channel partners, analysts, and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise communications and collaboration.

Appian World 2021 – Partnering for Performance

Vision Point Systems has pioneered methodologies for performance testing within the Appian sphere. In 2019, VPS had the opportunity to partner with Deloitte to bring our expertise in quality assurance and performance measurement to a critical, large-scale Appian deployment for the Federal Government.

Test Automation ROI in Appian Projects

Testing has been part of the secret sauce at VPS since we got started in 2002, and while it may be a bit boring, we maintain that QA pays for itself. Working on Appian development projects, our testers stand out in that they are familiar with Appian and can go further into the application than a typical black-box functional tester.

News of the Damned!

I got tipped off to this podcast at CAST. “Join your faithful host James Pulley and special guests every week for analysis on globally crashing websites and system failures while he reviews the disastrous sins of the evildoers in the IT department…”

Fax and BPM: A Match Made in Heaven

Greetings from 32000 Feet somewhere over Utah, on my way to AppianWorld. Our friends at Twilio released support for Fax over the weekend. They’ve been having fun with it on social media, playing into the archaicness of the technology, but I’m super stoked at what kind of possibilities this opens up to our BPM Customers.

Performance Testing 101: Types of Tests

Any software team worth its salt has testers. They execute functional tests to make sure that the system works as designed. They are, by and large excellent at this. What they usually DO NOT do, due to constraints of resources, is make sure that the system that worked correctly with 1 user (the tester) works correctly with 1000 or 10,000 users.

Get Yer Heads Out of Your Agile

For the past few years, both on customer projects and also on internal development projects, we have used the Agile Methodology*. I add the asterisk because no one seems to agree on what exactly agile should be, and no team I’ve ever seen (even within an organization) does it the same way.