Origin
Over Tolly's 23+ years in independent testing and validation, Tolly has compiled an extensive knowledge base on leading technologies and methods used to benchmark them. The Tolly Common Test Plan series allows anyone to benefit from our years of experience to educate themselves on a given technology and the leading methods used to evaluate and benchmark associated services, products and offerings.
Tolly has solicited input from major vendors of a given technology topic to ensure a fair, unbiased and comprehensive view of a given technology.
Test plans are currently available for licenses by individuals or organizations. If you have any questions or to learn about multiple-test plans/multiple-license discounts, please contact: sales@tolly.com.
Overview
The Tolly Common Test Plans are best practices guides for conducting IT product evaluations and benchmarking. The plans leverage The Tolly Group's years of testing experience and provide detailed test plans for evaluating leading-edge information technology products. In addition, The Tolly Group has invited vendor technology experts to review and comment on the plans.
The test plans are currently in use by both IT professionals and IT vendors around the world. Ultimately, the purpose of the Common Test Plan program is to reduce the amount of time and effort expended by end users in the RFP and product acquisition process.
Single-user licenses can be purchased directly from this web site. For volume purchases - either multiple licenses or multiple test plans - contact us for volume pricing.
The series covers a range of topics and is expanding. Common Test Plan topics are developed in a range of IT areas including networking infrastructure, security, WLAN,
Virtualization, Cloud Services
and Thin-Zero Client. Indivdual Common Test Plans have been written in many areas including:
- LAN switching - Power consumption, Interoperability and L3 Routing (separate plans)
- Application Switch Performance
- Anti-Spam Accuracy
- Data-Loss Prevention
- VoIP power consumption
- Anti-virus Endpoint Performance in Virtual Environments
- Cloud-based Backup/Restore of MSFT Exchange
The Common Test Plan documents are delivered as PDFs and are licensed on a per-user basis.
Development Process
Tolly Common Test Plans typically grow out of the extensive testing performed by Tolly. We solicit input from industry experts and attempt to build a sensible, balanced approach
to the evaluation and benchmarking process.
CommonTestPlan.org - The Test Plan Development Site
To assist in the collaborative development process, Tolly maintains a site devoted to working with those providing input to test plans and updating IT professionals
on updates and status of test plans.
Visit CommonTestPlan.org to see a complete list of test plans and/or to participate in test plan updates and discussion.
Usage Scenarios
IT Professionals (End-users, VARs & Consultants)
- Shorten the time it takes to build RFP documents
- Educate staff to become "Instant Experts" on IT product evaluation
- Reduce or eliminate time you spend developing RFP evaluation test plans
- Benchmark product performance to devise purchasing short list
- Shorten or eliminate the time you spend educating your team about product technology features
- Reduce the time and resources needed for the product evaluation cycle
- Leverage the knowledge and experience of a leading IT testing company to make your evaluations quicker and more comprehensive
- Build upon an unbiased framework to assess technology offerings
IT Vendors
- Provide clients with a vendor-neutral framework to build viable RFP documents
- Educate staff to become "Instant Experts" on IT product evaluation
- Eliminate time you spend developing test plans
- Benchmark product performance according to an unbiased test methodology
- Pre-qualify company products for users' RFPs based upon the Tolly Common Test Plan
- Fast-track products for "Tolly Certified" testing
- Shorten or eliminate the time you spend educating your team about product technology
- Reduce the time and resources needed for the product evaluation cycle
- Leverage the knowledge and experience of a leading IT testing company to make your internal testing more comprehensive
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