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Digital business assurance
for quality at speed.

Digital business assurance for organisations delivering complex IT change. PinnacleQM aligns project, IT and business teams on one quality outcome, so change reaches production faster, safer and with less effort.

Delivery team gathered in an open-plan office
Joined-up team reviewing one shared quality dashboard

30+years of international
IT experience

The challenge

Testing alone won't
protect the business.

Traditional testing checks systems against specifications, but many failures come from gaps between teams: unclear requirements, late business involvement, untested integrations and data, and release decisions made without evidence of business risk. Each gap adds cost.

PinnacleQM's digital business assurance brings the whole team, from product owners to testers, around shared quality goals. We combine strategy, test management, automation and evidence-based acceptance so go-live decisions rest on business risk. Business users stay informed without being overloaded.

Benefits

One team.
One quality goal.

Assurance works when IT and business teams pursue the same outcome. Our teams close the gaps in skills and mindset that let defects and delays slip through.

Technology lead checking delivery metrics on a tablet
Proven in health 24 months sooner. $10M+ saved.

State health integration delivered by 7 testers.

  • Aligned teams

    IT and business teams share quality goals, measures and evidence, and one definition of done.

  • Risk-based focus

    Effort goes to the processes, integrations and data that matter most to the business. Low-risk areas receive proportionate, lighter testing.

  • Earlier defects

    Quality is built in from feasibility, so defects are found when they are cheapest to fix and rework falls.

  • Less business effort

    Automated acceptance and evidence free business users from repeated manual testing. They review outcomes instead of repeating test cycles.

  • Confident releases

    Go-live recommendations state evidence, residual risks and conditions clearly. Decision-makers know exactly what they are accepting.

  • Reusable assets

    Tests, automation and data built once support later releases and support. Each release costs less to assure than the one before.

How we can help

Assurance across
the delivery lifecycle.

Six areas that together turn testing into business assurance.

Quality strategy and planning

We tailor PinnacleQM's Enterprise Test Strategy Framework to your programme, defining risk-based coverage, test levels, entry and exit criteria and release gates from the start. Quality is designed in rather than inspected at the end.

  • Risk-based test strategy
  • Quality built in early
  • Release gates defined
Quality strategy aligned to business risk
Quality strategy aligned to business risk

Test management and coordination

We plan, coordinate and report testing across teams and vendors, with one defect process, one register and one view of release readiness. Leaders see one honest picture of progress and risk.

  • Single defect process
  • Cross-vendor coordination
  • Release readiness reporting
Test manager coordinating multiple teams
Test manager coordinating multiple teams

Integration and end-to-end assurance

We map processes, dependencies and data flows, then test integrations and end-to-end processes in dependency order, so connected systems are proven together. Failures between systems are found before users find them.

  • Dependency traceability matrix
  • Integration sequencing
  • End-to-end processes
End-to-end process flow sketched from start to finish
End-to-end process across systems

Automation at scale

We automate regression and end-to-end processes with no-code, natural-language assets and virtual testers. Existing automation is protected while new assets are added, and reuse lowers the cost of every release.

  • No-code natural-language scripts
  • Virtual testers 24/7
  • Reuse across lifecycle
Unattended workstations running automated regression tests
Virtual testers running regression

Business acceptance

Authorise makes business acceptance faster and evidence-based. Users approve changes from recorded results rather than repeated manual cycles, every approval is recorded for audit, and their time goes to decisions.

  • Criteria-based acceptance
  • Video evidence
  • Less business effort
Business user reviewing test evidence on a laptop
Business user reviewing evidence video

Go-live recommendation

We give an independent, evidence-based go-live recommendation covering coverage, open defects, residual risks and conditions, while the decision stays with your authorised delegate. Contingency and early-life support plans are included.

  • Evidence-based recommendation
  • Residual risk statement
  • Conditions and contingency
Release decision meeting with evidence pack
Release decision meeting with evidence pack
Our approach

Quality built in
from day one.

Our approach starts at feasibility and carries through to production support, so assurance is never bolted on at the end.

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Digital Business Assurance One team.
Quality at speed.
  1. Align

    Agree quality goals, risks and measures with IT and business stakeholders. Success measures are written down and shared.

  2. Plan

    Tailor the test strategy, coverage, environments, data and release gates. Everything is sized to the risk of the change.

  3. Assure

    Test, automate and manage defects across teams, vendors and integrations. Risks are reported as they emerge.

  4. Accept

    Gather evidence-based business acceptance with minimal effort from users. Evidence is recorded against their criteria.

  5. Release

    Provide the go-live recommendation and support early life after release. We also track results after release.

PinnacleQM client outcomes

Business assurance 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
Talk to an assurance lead

Deliver your next
change with confidence.

Tell us about your programme, systems and deadlines. We will show how digital business assurance could reduce your risk, effort and time to production, and what evidence your go-live needs.

Describe your programme, key systems and go-live dates.