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User acceptance in days,
not months.

User acceptance testing and business acceptance services for organisations whose business teams are stretched by testing. PinnacleQM automates acceptance against users' criteria, so they approve change from evidence, not repeated tests.

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Business user giving the thumbs up after approving evidence

30+years of international
IT experience

The challenge

UAT drains the
people running the business.

User acceptance testing pulls business users away from customers and operations for weeks. They repeat the same tests after every fix, cycles drag on, and fatigue means important scenarios get rushed or skipped. Critical scenarios suffer.

PinnacleQM plans acceptance around users' criteria and uses Authorise to automate the processes behind them. Virtual workers run and rerun tests until they pass, then record video evidence for users to review and approve online.

Benefits

Less testing.
More confidence.

Business users should decide, not do the repetitive work. We automate the execution and give them clear evidence to make acceptance decisions quickly.

Business user celebrating a positive result at work
Proven outcome Over 80% less UAT effort.

Reduction in repeat business acceptance effort.

  • Criteria first

    Acceptance is based on each user's agreed criteria, so expectations are clear. Everyone knows what acceptance means before testing starts.

  • Automated execution

    Virtual workers run the processes, raise defects and rerun until they pass. Business users only see results that are ready for review.

  • Video evidence

    Each passed activity is recorded, so users see exactly what was tested. Nothing is left to interpretation.

  • Online sign-off

    Users review and approve from a dashboard at a time that suits them. Approvals are recorded for audit.

  • Less user fatigue

    Business teams stop repeating the same tests after every fix. They stay focused on customers and operations.

  • Reusable assets

    Acceptance automation is reused for regression, compliance and RPA. Future releases start with acceptance already automated.

How we can help

Acceptance,
from planning to sign-off.

A complete acceptance service that reduces effort without reducing confidence.

Acceptance planning

We work with business owners to define user roles, acceptance criteria and scenarios, and plan acceptance around business calendars, so users know what to expect and only test what they need.

  • User roles and criteria
  • Scenario selection
  • Business calendar alignment
Acceptance criteria workshop with users
Acceptance criteria workshop with users

Automated acceptance execution

Authorise maps each criterion to automated processes, transactions and reports, then executes them with virtual workers and reruns until they pass. Business users are not involved until results are ready.

  • Criteria-to-process mapping
  • Virtual worker execution
  • Automatic reruns
Authorise mapping criteria to processes
Authorise mapping criteria to processes

Evidence and sign-off

Passed activities are recorded as video and linked to the relevant criteria, so users review evidence and approve online with a full audit trail. Auditors can see exactly what was approved and when.

  • Video evidence capture
  • Online review
  • Recorded sign-off
Video evidence on a review dashboard
Video evidence on a review dashboard

Facilitated UAT

Where manual acceptance is still needed, we coordinate UAT, prepare scripts and data, support users and manage defects so their time is used well. Support is tailored to each user group.

  • UAT coordination
  • Scripts and data prepared
  • Defect support
UAT coordinator helping business users
UAT coordinator helping business users

Certification and compliance

Acceptance automation extends to certification and compliance requirements, so obligations are verified each time processes change, and compliance evidence is produced as a by-product of acceptance rather than a separate effort.

  • Compliance guidebook checks
  • Certification evidence
  • Repeatable validation
Compliance checks with evidence
Compliance checks with evidence

Reuse after go-live

The same assets validate future releases and patches, and can be reused for business process automation in production, so business teams keep saving time long after the project closes and handover.

  • Release and patch validation
  • RPA reuse
  • Ongoing savings
Acceptance assets reused for operations
Acceptance assets reused for operations
Our approach

From criteria
to confident sign-off.

A clear path that keeps business users involved in decisions, not repetitive testing, from agreeing criteria to reviewing evidence and signing off.

Team working at desks in a bright open-plan office
UAT & Business Acceptance You decide.
We do the testing.
  1. Define

    Agree user roles, acceptance criteria and scenarios with business owners. Criteria are written in business language.

  2. Automate

    Map criteria to automated processes in Authorise and prepare data. Test data is prepared and protected.

  3. Execute

    Virtual workers run tests, raise defects and rerun until they pass. Defects are tracked through to closure.

  4. Review

    Users review video evidence and approve or reject online. Decisions and comments are recorded.

  5. Reuse

    Keep assets for future releases, compliance checks and business automation. Business teams keep the time they have saved.

PinnacleQM client outcomes

Acceptance testing results
our clients can measure.

Clinical team reviewing patient data and scans together
Healthcare / Assurance

Seven testers, 24 months sooner, $10M+ saved

A state health integration re-platforming was delivered by 7 testers in 12 months against competitor estimates of 40 to 46 testers over 36 months.

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Lending programme team reviewing process charts
Banking / Automation

Quarterly releases to daily and weekly with 12 people

Enginuity as a service and a team of 12 replaced a 125-person offshore regression team across a Big 4 bank's end-to-end lending systems.

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Commuters on a metro platform
Transport / Assurance

Defect penalties eliminated within two monthly releases

A state transport department paying around $1 million a year in penalties had every defect tested, fixed and retested, and no longer incurs penalties.

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Voice of the customer

In the words
of our customers.

We integrated Pinnacle’s teams and solutions into our capability. Services and solutions engaged within project delivery, business acceptance, patching and upgrades. We automate much more, with minimal backlogs as we automate within sprints. Business user satisfaction has never been higher.
Chief Technology Officer Enterprise systems client
Pinnacle now supports our SAP S/4HANA projects, integrations, maintenance and patching changes, reusing automation for scaled data obfuscation for offshore development teams and automating business processes. Great collaboration. I cannot imagine doing this without them.
SAP Programme Director SAP S/4HANA programme
We use Pinnacle’s services and automation platform for all our test and automation demands. Virtual worker bot groups replace each business team’s need to support changes. A small Pinnacle offshore team manages a massive library of tens of thousands of automated transactions. This is a massive saving and value to our company. We love this collaborative way of working.
Vice President, HR Services Enterprise client
After working with Pinnacle on client projects, we now involve them in business projects and maintenance too. Projects run smoother, with realism and optimisation in schedules. We deliver more reliably and achieve greater customer success. They set a high bar for communication, pace and quality.
Delivery Executive Software company
Pinnacle has helped ensure our customers are on latest versions and manage impacts to client systems. A valued partner in delivering upgrades and integrations, their automation frameworks work well with our platforms.
Executive Software company
We struggled to meet growing demands using traditional tools. With Pinnacle, we adopted several of their SaaS automation platforms. Now we have an army of virtual bots running any time, and we are not struggling to maintain script libraries anymore.
Product Development Lead Cloud ERP provider
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Give your business
users their time back.

Tell us about your next release and how UAT runs today. We will show how automated acceptance and evidence-based sign-off could cut the effort for your business users.

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