StarBase survey finds that AX Programme Managers are struggling to deliver quality
Sod’s Law – a lethal piece of legislation – especially when trying to deliver business critical programmes
The Spectre of Poor Performance at Scale
Top 5 Reasons Why Your Dynamics AX Might be Running Slow
Interview with Stephen Davis on StarBase’s move into testing Dynamics AX
Fast, fixed price performance evaluation as a service - Test&Go: Performance Evaluation
Does your testing project need rescuing?
StarBase Drive Performance and Accelerate Delivery
Silver Surfers Smash Senior Savings Site
Sainsbury’s Cancels Customers’ Christmases
Discover How HP’s Simpler, Leaner Tools will lead to Actionable Insights Across the Lifecycle
Black-Cloud Friday – Cyber Monday is next
DVLA Crash – IT Performance Thoughts
How We Monitor Results
Who and Why We Develop
Our Investment in our people and their investment in themselves
Technical Tester or Performance Testing Consultant?
Business Drivers for IBM Rational (Green Hat) Integration
Are you Facing Challenges Performance Testing Modern Applications?
The Unexpected Benefits of Service Virtualisation
Cost Savings Using Service Virtualisation
Test Data Generation doesn’t need to be Testing!
Virtualisation vs In House Test Harness
Are you confident in the Performance of your Cloud Hosted Applications?
What’s to be done about the Failure of Offshore Testing
Why Offshore Testing has Failed
Better Onshore than Unsure
In The Know: Video Content
Stay In The Know with StarBase
‘The Technical Debt’ in the Financial market
Testing earlier, faster, continuously, at a lower cost and de-risked delivery – What more do you want?
‘I Had a Major Decision to Make, Shut Down or Change’
‘Surround Yourself With Smart People and Invest Time in their Development’
Counteracting Threats to your Business Posed by Offshore Competition
StarBase Vision of Business Performant Application Engineering
Invited to tender? Here’s what that really means
Olympics Website Feels The Burn
Category Archive : Down to Business
Down to Business 23 March 2016
StarBase recently surveyed AX Programme Managers in the UK and beyond to understand the challenges they face in achieving quality outcomes.
In summary, while Dynamics AX is sold on ease of im...
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Down to Business 21 January 2016
At some time or another we’ve all been caught out by Sod’s Law; key team members going sick at crucial points of project or programme delivery or someone taking holiday at just the wron...
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Down to Business 29 October 2015
The overload of cinema websites ahead of the launch of “Spectre”, the new James Bond movie, and next month’s launch of the new Star Wars film hit the newspaper headlines and made ...
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Down to Business 28 October 2015
At StarBase, we are called in to assure Dynamics AX implementations that need to scale, and to diagnose problems causing AX to slow down in ‘live’.
Here are the top five reasons w...
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Down to Business 20 August 2015
Why did StarBase’s move into Dynamics come about?
I recognised an emerging opportunity: Dynamics AX is starting to become a serious choice for medium-sized enterprises, but there are...
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Down to Business 06 August 2015
Would your business cope if a critical application or website was subjected to increased demand or stress?
For clients who need to check that their new critical applications and upgrades will...
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Down to Business 30 July 2015
Are you concerned that a major new release might not perform or scale?
Is your project in trouble? Do you lack the right specialist resources?
Have deadlines changed – d...
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Down to Business 14 July 2015
“StarBase has helped turn the EFT Performance Testing engine from Fiat to Ferrari horsepower!”
StarBase recently engaged with a client, on a project that had over-run and had miss...
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Down to Business 15 January 2015
NS&I Website Crashes Under High Demand
This morning the UK’s National Savings and Investments (NS&I) website crashed under high demand as pensioners tried to apply for the Gover...
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Down to Business 22 December 2014
Sainsbury’s cancels Christmas
A major IT systems failure has meant many Sainsbury’s customers have had their Christmas delivery slots cancelled.
“We experienc...
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Down to Business 18 December 2014
HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona
HP Discover 2014 Barcelona
I’m just back from HP Discover 2014 in Barcelona and one important message I took from HP Software, in...
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Down to Business 28 November 2014
Black-Cloud Friday
Today’s headlines of police being called to keep the peace at Black Friday sales show that consumers will fight-in-the-aisles for perceived bargains. Online it may be...
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Down to Business 03 October 2014
The IT performance failure of the DVLA’s online road taxing site has hit the headlines, and thousands of customers have been unable to renew their car tax online, with some spen...
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Down to Business 17 April 2014
We put people into a range of stretching projects, some outside their comfort zone, nevertheless supported by management and colleagues and measured with feedback from peers, leaders and clients. In a...
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Down to Business 11 April 2014
Everyone at StarBase has their training needs and performance analysed to ensure we are providing the highest level of service to our clients. This analysis highlights areas of personal development wh...
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Down to Business 04 April 2014
We previously blogged a piece about what we (our client and our consultants) believe are the top 20 attributes of a Performance Test Consultant, past the obvious technical requirements. At StarBase we...
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Down to Business 10 March 2014
In our specialist area we think it’s really important to be technically skilled, being able to carry out technical work effectively, use the right tools and deliver up sound results has to be...
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Down to Business 10 February 2014
IBM Rational (Green Hat) technology is used by clients who are challenged with testing complex applications. Using Rational technology to virtualise services enables you to do complex testing with...
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Down to Business 22 November 2013
Alan Moulsdale, Technical Director at StarBase and a thought leader in performance testing, was recently invited to speak at the UKCMG Forum (UK Capacity Management Group), hosted at the impressive Ma...
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Down to Business 17 November 2013
StarBase are already seeing the benefits of service virtualisation in performance testing but sometimes benefits can come from unexpected areas. A recent example was for a project which involved high ...
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Down to Business 16 November 2013
Today’s applications typically involve interactions with numerous applications in house, legacy and external to the company. Simulating these across multiple environments can lead to huge cost savings...
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Down to Business 17 October 2013
One of our regular major headaches on performance testing projects is test data. Either we can’t use production data because it is sensitive, or we don’t have enough data, or the test d...
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Down to Business 17 October 2013
Today's applications typically involve interactions with numerous applications both in house and external. Simulating these before they are either fully developed or available across multiple environm...
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Down to Business 03 October 2013
For consumers, the benefits of exploiting cloud computing provision have been comprehensively documented. Fundamentally, the 'cloud' encapsulates the provision of virtualised application services, exp...
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Down to Business 15 July 2013
We've written here and elsewhere about the failure of offshore performance testing and its root cause – namely that it is the nature of the tasks to be undertaken that makes them inherently unsuitable...
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Down to Business 12 June 2013
We wrote a short while ago about the failure of offshore performance testing – its failure to reduce costs and its failure to assure quality. It’s only fair and reasonable that we should now justify o...
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Down to Business 16 May 2013
Offshore performance testing has failed. The experience of many UK organisations has been that it hasn't reduced costs and it hasn't assured quality.
Offshore testing was sold as a logical extension ...
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Down to Business 04 April 2013
As part of our commitment to keep you In The Know, we have added several videos to our Knowledge Base. Including product insights from our partners IBM, HP and Spirent. Take some time out to watch the...
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Down to Business 25 March 2013
We know it's tough to keep current with developments in software testing. Being well informed is critical to making the right decision and ensuring you get the maximum return both from your investment...
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Down to Business 08 February 2013
The Financial services sector has attracted media attention in recent months for all the wrong reasons. Software failures have led to angry customers not having access to their money, missing payments...
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Down to Business 22 January 2013
Partnering very smart testing tools with very smart Consultants:
Through its automated integration testing – below the GUI – and virtualisation capabilities, IBM’s Rational ...
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Down to Business 22 November 2012
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD, provides an insight about his experience in starting his own company.
Why did you start StarBase?
“The reason I started StarBase was ba...
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Down to Business 14 November 2012
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD of StarBase, was recently asked about the challenges of building your own company.
What were the major challenges for you in the early days of StarBase?...
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Down to Business 05 November 2012
Stephen Davis, StarBase founder and MD of StarBase, discusses the threats posed by the economic climate and off-shore competition.
What do you think will be the biggest challenge for StarBase...
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Down to Business 17 October 2012
As a member of the UKCMG (UK Capacity Management Group) we recently addressed the UKCMG forum hosted at the impressive ‘Magic Circle’ in London. We view events like these as ideal platforms to build a...
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Down to Business 15 October 2012
As a member of the The Supper Club (an invite only membership club for entrepreneurs, part of Prelude Group), Stephen Davis, founder and managing director of StarBase was recently interviewed by th...
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Down to Business 28 August 2012
Many of us struggled with the Olympic websites during the games, ticketing for example was chaos, live monitoring revealed that just under 30% of the 2000 benchmark tests exceeded response times of 10...
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