Sony Pictures Entertainment, the American entertainment subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., hit the news hard over its cyber-attack in late 2014. Since then, the company has put a focus on reducing risk and increasing performance and quality of their mission critical enterprise applications. To ensure the backbone SAP ERP system, Sony turned to Panaya and since has utilized the SaaS solution to accelerate, promote and secure all SAP ERP changes.
With large organizations operating highly customized SAP ERP systems, any change is challenged with risk, go live failures, lengthy testing cycles and inefficient
processes. Using Panaya CloudQuality Suite, Sony addresses the challenge with a high level of quality change that ensures the functionality, security and
performance of the ERP code. Using PCQ for SAP changes Sony Entertainment:
- Reduces risk with full visibility into the impact of any change to their system and connected 3rd party applications
- Achieves maximum efficiency and effectiveness throughout the project with scope and prioritized testing
With the ability to raise 80% of the defects at the start of the project, Sony Pictures Entertainment can reduce project time and effort by over 50% while staying on budget and achieving zero critical defects after go live.