Sente's Total Cost of Ownership Calculator Featured In Test & Measurement World
"Online Calculator Aids Test Asset Management" offers readers an interactive experience to see their own potential for improved profitability, speed and engineering productivity in test-related functions. Based on The Sente Group's proprietary model, which has helped global telecom and defense leaders improve profitability by tens of millions of dollars, the online calculator focuses on the effects of streamlining the dynamic that drives test-related activities. That dynamic, Sente CEO Paul McNamara says, emerges from the interdependence of people, practices, and tools, through which engineering cultures can realize dramatic, measurable improvements. Read Article

Sente Featured In Military & Aerospace Electronics
"General Dynamics eyes test practices to help improve company's bottom line" looks at how the Michigan-based company's Land Systems Division exceeded operating expense saving targets by more than 300 percent with a Test Resource Management solution from The Sente Group. Sente CEO Paul McNamara discusses how the two companies worked together to maximize the test environment improvements by first making sure key employees understood the benefits of the program. Download Article (532KB)

Sente Featured In Electronic Business
In “The Road to Meaningful Change,” Sente CEO Paul McNamara offers three principles to drive significant change in the test environment. Success, according to McNamara, hinges on securing buy-in from engineering, and is essential to gaining better-than-average, measurable results. Download Article (89KB)

Sente Featured In Quality Insider, A Publication of Quality Digest
In “Managing the Business Within Your Business,” Sente CEO Paul McNamara explores seven essentials for improving test environment performance. In this excerpt from the white paper 'Who’s Managing The Business Within Your Business?,' McNamara also identifies common symptoms of poor test environment performance. While no ‘silver bullet’ solution exists, McNamara’s seven essentials provide readers with a new, pragmatic path to lower costs, faster time-to-market and greater engineering productivity. Download Article (180KB)

News Releases

• The Sente Group Names Geoffrey Robinson Vice President of Technology
• ITT Industries to Implement Test Resource Management™ Solution from The Sente Group
• The Sente Group Joins AFCEA as a Corporate Sponsor
• QuEST Forum Selects Sente Group CEO To Speak

White Papers
Who's Managing the Business Within Your Business?
Whether you realize it or not, there's a test equipment management business operating inside your business. Like any business without strong metrics and rigorous financial statements, the bottom-line results are poor. Since people don't see or understand this function as a business within a business, they only see the symptoms of problems on the bottom line of the total enterprise. The result: companies waste millions of dollars, lose weeks in the typical product development cycle, and burden their engineering personnel with distractions. Request white paper

Six Keys to Driving Significant Change in Your Test Environment
In engineering cultures, resistance to change accounts for the relatively slow pace at which major initiatives have been propagated and adopted – as well as the relative lack of "breakthrough" results from test-related change initiatives. In this brief paper, we explore six fundamentals to driving meaningful change and delivering exceptional results in the test environment. Request white paper

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