In 2011 Quasus realised a growth in turnover of 6.2%, up to 11 mio€ 

Quasus, an international consulting company from Zaventem, realised a growth in turnover of 6.2%, up to 11 mio€ and a positive operating result of 436K euros, which is an increase 1,4 mio€ vs. the loss of 2010. We realised this growth through reorganization, active attraction of new customers, activity in new markets and an increase in value based selling.

These excellent results were achieved in strong contradiction to the market tendency and in a challenging business environment. This means Quasus is on the right track for many years to come.

This also proven by the excellent results we achieved end of the first quarter of 2012. We managed to obtain a turnover of 3.586K euros with an EBITDA of 15%.

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Understanding customer needs and providing value solutions, runs through the veins of Dirk Broodcooren. Graduated in Commercial Sciences, he started his career as an accountant for Colruyt before becoming the Financial Director of Dolmen Computer Applications. “I got tired of the job and switched to sales, a decision I didn’t regret so far”.

His first big contract was closed with Belgian Shell. “I am still quite proud of that one. Dolmen ended up on the black list after a failed gas station installation. However, I succeeded in closing some beautiful deals, amongst them a private PC-project. “

Dirk Broodcooren past working experiences were as the CEO of Saga Consulting, Sales & Marketing Director at Ordina and country manager at SAP.

He is 48, married and proud father of 2 adult children. His hobbies include biking, motorcycling and horseback riding.

Need
* Ensure the bank implements the right strategic projects (local + x-border):
* Permanently look for group opportunities and better allocation of project resources: synergies, reuse, avoid double investments.
* More efficient collaboration in and between entities by exchanging best practices.                

Solution
Set-up of a Project Portfolio Management methodology and process, using one common tool to ensure this bank focuses its resources (IT man days, business man days, overall investments, …) on relevant strategic projects (local and x-border) by driving the process in association with different entities (i.e. CFO, CIO, DTS). Steps supported by a Quasus consultant are: designing PPM process in detail and proof of concept for PMO tool

Benefits
* A standardised way for project-inflow, project- and portfolio management.
* One tool for everyone with centralised information which allows, amongst other benefits, overall investment, benefit & risk optimization…
* The cost savings resulting from this project were estimated at about 200.000 euro per annum.

Need
This client has chosen Quasus as a single service provider in the area of testing. Based on Quasus’ experience, this energy provider requested us to provide tool support, develop automated tests (functional & non-functional) for all projects within the IT & business department.

Solution
Quasus delivers  flexible test tool support in Test Management tool, Test automation and performance testing for all project demands within the IT-department and Business department.

Benefits
* Performance  testing: the client is often more aware of slow performance before going into production so performance can be improved before hand.

* Test Management: the client can use a user friendly tool that delivers easy reports and graphs, while before a lot of time and effort was spent in doing this manually.

* Test Automation: the development of automated testing immediately resulted in the discovery of defects during initial acceptance testing. In the future the customer will be able to rely on automated regression testing.

The Innovation Award was won by Telenet for Business in the category Cable operator at Cable Congress 2012. Their successful implementation of the business overlay network and dedicated focus on customer experience for the B2B market didn’t only impress the B2B-market in Belgium and Luxemburg but also the public at Cable Congress. Telenet for Business positioned fiber-coax as the primary access technology in the business segment with speeds up to 100Mbps and was able to significantly grow its revenues in the B2B market segment with double digit growth rates in 2011.

Three companies from three different categories – Cable operator, Technology vendor and Content provider – were nominated for one award. The two other companies nominated by the Cable Europe Programme Committee were HBO with HBO GO in the category Content provider and Intel with Video gateway, a platform for services in the category Technology vendor.

The key criteria for the jury to nominate these three companies were “a distinctive new service, product or project that allows cable to generate new revenue, or differentiate itself strongly from competition”. During Cable Congress the three nominees presented their
innovative products and services.

The public has voted for Telenet for Business during the Cable Europe Innovation Award Ceremony. Martine Tempels, Sr. Vice President of Telenet for Business, reaction
after winning the Award by commenting: “Thank you very much for this great recognition for our work. Everybody in the audience who works with the B2B-segment knows how hard it must have been to switch from a B2C to a B2B-environment and excel in service quality and reliability for these B2B-customers.”

Next year Cable Congress will continue to celebrate and highlight excellence and good practices in innovation. The cable industry will receive an invitation to put forward their innovative products, services or projects that make a real difference in terms of revenue generation and differentiation on the market. To further increase the participation for next year’s award, the crowd will be selecting the nominees for the Cable Europe Innovation Award before the congress, where the winner
will be chosen by public voting.

Today, the company celebrates already its 8^th anniversary! From just a few people we have evolved into a consultancy services company that works with companies worldwide. We employ 150 top-class employees and have ambitious plans to grow.

Happy Birthday Quasus!

Need
The company was looking for a change manager to guide the ICT department through the roadmap.

Solution
Quasus guided the change process and this included minimizing resistance to change and keeping in mind the personal experience of each individual. The Quasus change manager organized several workshops  and  new templates were introduced for the software development process. Quasus assisted in defining requirements and business processes, both current and future. The 30 improvement propositions were elaborated in detail. 

Benefits
The client’s back-log of ICT projects was reduced substantially. Secondly, ICT-business alignment was improved by introducing new ways of communication and agreements between both parties. The changes were implemented with better acceptance by the people involved and continuity of the changes was assured.

Are you a pro in testing? And not afraid to do things differently?
Come talk to us. Quasus, Home of the Consultant.

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Need
Since the situation was deteriorating, this telecom company contacted Quasus to conduct an assessment of the current testing and release process in order to make it more efficient.

Solution
We started with an identification of the current situation (AS-IS) by conducting:
* 30 stakeholder interviews and questionnaires (change management)
* a document review.

Then we analyzed the findings (list of +/- 400 pains) and based on our experience, 50 improvement propositions were elaborated. During analysis focus was not limited to the testing activities, but covered the whole release cycle process. We drew-up an implementation plan, containing quick-wins, milestones, recommendations, etc. Templates were provided to start off initial improvements. Finally a business case was developed, stating savings up to € 200.000,- per year are in reach.

Client benefits
Quasus offered this telecom company a proven approach based on solid experiences in this industry, leading to significant cost savings, a shorter time-to-market and higher quality. During the assessment, a lot of attention was given to the change management aspect, leading to easier acceptance by the parties involved.

Need
A uniform and clear approach on Risk Based Testing was asked; theoretical approach, methodologies and exercises were requested.

Solution
Quasus offers an in-house developed Risk Based Testing Training which was proposed to the customer. The customer asked if it was possible to provide a tailor-made customisation based on the original course, with exercises linked to their specific business field. Quasus estimated an x-day customization process on-site with the client and was hired to instruct this course to over 60 people. After a number of trainings, both training and trainer were evaluated. The training was adjusted to the feedback provided.

Benefits
Quasus offered the client a clear training for a specific group within the company, meeting the different training requirements as asked for by the customer. Quasus delivered an experienced trainer for the extensive training program which resulted in an improved and aligned organization.