“As a publicly traded company with a substantial amount of government oversight, disrupting the performance of financial
management systems is the number one risk we take when making software changes,” Aaron asserts. “Today’s auditors and regulators are technology-savvy and have their own tools for detecting issues and errors in financial reporting.”
“We performed the upgrade using full documentation within Original Software,” explains Patrick. “Every test case was listed and every test was executed and screen shots captured. Now, when a manager does a review they are able to see screen shots and the data entered and the output. And if there is an issue in production, we can go back and see the exact test that was carried out as well as what the results were.”