Virtual Center of Excellence Overview
Testing becomes a challenge in a large enterprise with multiple business units driving development and owning applications. Applications are developed and tested in silos, and impact on the rest of the business is not always analyzed. This leads to mushrooming of non-standard tools and processes, leading to quality issues at large. Gallop recommends an approach to centralize the testing and standardize the QA processes.
Gallop’s idea of Center of Excellence is based on the following fundamental tenets

Organizations are setting up shared services or Center of Excellence to cater to common business needs and to optimize the cost of operation while improving the quality of delivery. Gallop helps customer build Center of Excellence for their quality needs and bring this to another level by providing such services to the customer virtually. Clients can sign up with Gallop’s Center of Excellence to extend their QA and software development capabilities. This virtually maintained CoE is available to customer on demand, thus providing the full benefits of the expertise and best practices from a Center of Excellence at an optimized cost.
"Gallop provided us the knowledge and expertise to more quickly and effectively create our QTP testing architecture. They were dependable, quick to respond, and able to understand..."
Chris Mears, VP of Implementation Services, Delphi Tech
