Atlanta, GA (August 18, 2011) — Paul McNamara, Sente Group CEO, is presenting a whitepaper on the company's approach to holistic Test Resource Management™ at the upcoming NCSL International Workshop and Symposium being held the week of August 21st in National Harbor, MD. McNamara's whitepaper: The Significant Cost Reduction Opportunity You're Missing in Test – and How to Capture It offers practical insights into how companies can create a unique competitive advantage through improved test environment management.

The presentation explores a broad range of issues critical to the design of tomorrow's successful test environment that include creating accurate utilization data, making the business case for better test asset management, overcoming obstacles to success and achieving lasting behavioral change.

According to McNamara, "We're pleased to be on the agenda for NCSL's 50th Anniversary as milestones such as this one are often times for reflection. As we look at today's test environments in the context of our economic climate, we know the future can and must be shaped very differently. By approaching the test environment holistically, you can not only reduce costs, but dramatically improve job satisfaction and productivity. If you can free up engineers to focus on the new product development that will better ensure the future success of the company, it's a big win."

The Sente Group has used this holistic approach to drive 4x improvements in utilization, produce hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and improvements in both capacity and human resource availability for several of the Aerospace & Defense Industry's leading companies.

"We believe there are opportunities for test environments to produce real ROI but they're hidden behind low utilization, out-of-control costs, lack of productivity and disparate processes and practices. Our goal is to change that by helping companies leverage their capital structures to make improvements in their test environments - a driver for their overall success."

The NCSL International is a nonprofit organization with over 1,500 member companies from academic, industrial, commercial and government facilities around the globe. The organization is dedicated to the exchange of ideas, techniques and innovations in measurement science.

Since 1997, The Sente Group has helped a variety of market leaders bring new profitability, speed and engineering productivity to their test-related functions. Headquartered in Atlanta with teams of professionals working with customers across North America, Sente is the only national provider focused exclusively on helping companies integrate and streamline the interdependence of people, practices and tools that drives all test-related activities in engineering cultures.
Learn more at www.sentegroup.com.