How Cognitus accelerates SAP transformation with Tricentis

An automotive parts manufacturer hit a major company milestone. The good part? It recently completed a strategic acquisition. But that win came with an urgent challenge: integrating the acquired company’s business processes and data into its existing SAP S/4HANA environment. And to make matters even more complicated, it relied primarily on manual testing, causing delays and increasing the risk of production defects.

That’s when the manufacturer turned to Cognitus. As a global SAP Gold Partner specializing in delivering end-to-end SAP transformation services, Cognitus helped the manufacturer ensure continuity in operations, validate new data models, and confirm process integrity — all within a compressed timeline. The experts from Cognitus developed reusable test assets across finance, procurement, and sales to simultaneously test legacy and newly integrated systems.

As a Tricentis partner, Cognitus implemented an automated testing framework using Tricentis tools such as qTest, Tosca and SAP Change Impact Analysis. The approach enabled the manufacturer to rapidly validate the newly acquired processes and data within its SAP landscape and establish a scalable foundation for future automation initiatives.

The result? A 60% reduction in test cycle time, three times faster validation of migrated master and transactional data, and a 50% increase in test coverage across end-to-end processes.

Cognitus is noticing an increased demand for these types of rapid SAP rollouts due to mergers and acquisitions, where new entities must be integrated quickly and cleanly. Tricentis offers critical support to ensure success in these scenarios because it allows organizations to accelerate testing cycles and validate migrated data and processes at scale.

Enhancing SAP testing quality and speed

Cognitus brings its SAP expertise to various industries, not just manufacturing. From aerospace and defense to consumer products, engineering, construction, and professional services, it helps customers migrate to SAP Cloud ERP using a proven, accelerated methodology rooted in SAP Activate and enhanced by Cognitus’ proprietary tools and accelerators.

As a leading SAP partner, Cognitus focuses on fit-to-standard implementations that drive process harmonization and rapid time to value. Its core offerings include SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private implementations, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) extensions, and digital supply chain solutions like SAP EWM, IBP, and Field Service Management.

Cognitus became a Tricentis partner to further its commitment to delivering agile, high-quality SAP transformations for its clients. It uses Tricentis internally across three key areas: in the products it develops at Cognitus Innovation Labs, during upgrades of its internal SAP systems, and to successfully deliver SAP projects for its customers.

6 practices to accelerate SAP transformation projects

The success of the automotive parts manufacturer was not a one-off — it reflects a broader transformation philosophy that Cognitus brings to every SAP engagement. Drawing from years of delivering complex SAP Cloud ERP projects across industries, Cognitus has identified six practices that consistently drive speed, quality, and long-term value in SAP transformation initiatives:

1. Executive buy-in and advocacy: Success begins with leadership. Cognitus partners closely with the C-suite to elevate quality as a strategic enabler — ensuring initiatives receive the visibility, funding, and commitment needed to deliver results at scale.
2. Embedded QA mindset: Instead of treating QA as a post-go-live phase, Cognitus integrates it throughout the project lifecycle — from fit-to-standard workshops to solution design reviews, and sprint planning — making testability a foundational design principle.
3. Centers of Excellence (CoEs): Establishing Quality Engineering CoEs helps to standardize automation frameworks, test data management, and KPIs. These centers act as multipliers, coaching project teams and scaling best practices across business units.
4. Meaningful metrics drive action: Thriving teams don’t just report test execution stats — they connect metrics to business impact. For example, tracking defect leakage into UAT or production, automation ROI, or business process coverage rather than individual test cases.
5. Business and IT Collaboration: Quality leaders engage business users early and often, using tools like Tricentis to bridge technical test automation with real-world process validation. The result: realistic test scenarios, faster validation cycles, and higher user confidence during cutover.
6. Continuous enablement: Top-performing businesses treat quality as a culture, not just a role. They run internal knowledge-sharing sessions, publish success stories, and celebrate issue prevention as much as resolution.

Scaling the Cognitus and Tricentis partnership with confidence

“One of the most rewarding aspects of the Tricentis partnership is how it has empowered our testing services to move from traditional QA to intelligent quality engineering”
Jeff Olsen, Managing Director of Digital Supply Chain Solutions, Cognitus.

Cognitus uses SAP Cloud ALM (cALM) to enable rapid project mobilization and governance across SAP implementations, and the seamless integration with Tricentis has been a game-changer for the delivery model. It enables streamlined, automated testing directly from the implementation project plans to ensure fit-to-standard process testing is fast, traceable, and reusable. This integration is also key in its Application Management Services (AMS) offerings. Tricentis empowers Cognitus to offer regression testing during patch cycles and upgrades to help clients maintain system integrity and agility post go-live.

The partnership has also inspired innovation within Cognitus. It has integrated Tricentis tools into its proprietary TestXpert Suite, which it uses to help clients manage test execution, documentation, and traceability across the SAP lifecycle. This collaboration has enabled Cognitus to differentiate itself in competitive deals, offer faster value realization, and drive tangible quality outcomes. Cognitus plans to evolve the TestExpert Suite to support risk-based test prioritization, intelligent automation, and AI capabilities.

Looking ahead, the vision for the Cognitus and Tricentis partnership focuses on expanding the joint impact in high-stakes SAP transformation initiatives, particularly for M&A-driven integrations, and SAP Cloud ERP implementations. As Cognitus customers accelerate digital transformation, Tricentis remains central to its ability to deliver with confidence.

The Tricentis Partner Spotlight Series highlights how our partners leverage the Tricentis suite of products to excel in the test automation space and help our mutual customers meet their quality engineering goals. If you’re a partner and would like to be considered for the series, please get in touch with your Tricentis partner manager.