Scapa has been a Citrix Partner for almost 20 years, working with their core products from the early days of WinFrame, through MetaFrame, Presentation Server, XenApp, XenDesktop and so on. Through that time, our unique technical approach to testing these platforms has meant that our performance testing methodology has stayed consistent and fully backwards compatible. […]
Disclaimer: the results discussed below were found on a vanilla installation of Remedy 8.1. We deliberately chose an older version of the stack for this exploratory post. Scapa has recently partnered with Appcheck NG, who provide a web vulnerability scanning platform. End user monitoring and load and performance testing have been our core activity for […]
Why run regular security tests? As we probably all know, information security is a broad subject and for many of us understanding the different layers that can help within this spectrum can be at times difficult. In this article, we look at the risk and what your business could do about it! Over the years […]
Remedy upgrade – pre and post upgrade performance compared. We undertook a short exercise for a client recently, putting some monitoring in place on their Remedy 9.1 prior and after a hardware upgrade. We set up end user monitoring of certain response times using the Scapa Test & Performance Platform. A simple transaction was recorded […]
Welcome to a special edition of our newsletter, bringing you details of what is effectively “part two” of our investigations into the performance characteristics of BMC’s latest release of its Remedy ITSM system, version 9. Read on to find out more about these tests and about our forthcoming Scapa TPP for Remedy demonstration video. New […]
This latest Scapa Technologies News Update will give you an insight into what’s been keeping us busy here at Scapa Technologies since our last news update and what we are looking forward to. We are excited to tell you about the BMC Remedy ITSM benchmarking project we’ve been working on with Alderstone Consulting, a product and […]
Although the latest release of BMC Software’s Remedy ITSM platform – version 9.0 – contains no major new features, it has been re-engineered from a C-based into a Java-based application. The significance of this change will, doubtless, be to facilitate future development of this business-critical system. Scapa Technologies has a vast amount of experience […]
It’s been a while since our last newsletter, but we’ve not been resting on our laurels. In fact, as mentioned in our last news update, we’ve been devoting our time to delivering connectivity between Scapa TPP and PeopleSoft applications to customers. This connectivity is available now and this newsletter includes links to a new case […]
Scapa Technologies News Update – February 2013 How better to ensure the performance of your BMC Software Remedy or ITSM environment than with the help of Scapa Technologies’ professional services consultants? These guys are the experts in testing software systems, and with way over 10 years’ experience in testing Remedy ITSM environments, big and small, […]
Scapa Technologies News Update – December 2012 Following on from a very successful trip to San Jose for the Worldwide Remedy User Group, this month’s newsletter continues the Remedy ITSM theme as it focuses on an interesting Remedy migration project we completed for BT, plus a really successful and enjoyable Remedy Mid Tier Optimization webinar […]
