Company background

Established in 2003, SciVisum has grown to become a significant player in the UK Web and Application Testing market.

Blue chip clients range across Banking, Telecoms, Energy provider, Local and Central Government, Top 10 London Law Firms, E-tailing and FT100 companies and include Tesco, T-Mobile, Virgin, Boden, National Savings and Investment Bank, Scottish and Southern Energy, uSwitch, Jessops, BDO Stoy Hayward and Reed.co.uk.

SciVisum's unique offering allows the Business and Marketing managers to take control of the ongoing Customer Experience on the portals; and is the result of the combination of its in-house developed test engine, which provides flexible and fast scripting for complex multi-page User Journey web site testing, with the experience of expert web testing staff.

The result is the ability to offer a portfolio of web effectiveness test services, all centred around the powerful User Journey approach, thus helping clients to ensure continual focus on reducing lost sales online, by ongoing improvement of hard metrics of User Experience.

Clients tend to build an ongoing annual regime of testing of their money-nmaking with SciVisum to help maintain the quality of their user experience - for example SV-Monitor continuous 24/7 monitoring - and a twice yearly SV-Load stress simulation test. Many companies have previously bought testing from other suppliers, and appreciate the fact that SciVisum's unique approach provides quality and depth of testing to match the best, but at costs and time scales to suit today's tighter project demands.

SciVisum's core web performance test services are:

SV-Monitor - 24/7 continuous web monitoring, of the vital Money-Making and Customer-Serving User Journeys: such as Add_To_Basket, CheckOut, Register, Login_and_View_Order - with a uniquely full featured analysis application delivered via a portal.

SV-Load - Web load testing/web stress testing: producing the vital metric of the peak capacity User Journeys completed per second: each User Journey on a site will have a different throughput limit, due to the fact that it will be using different code and infrastructure behind the scenes.

SV-Function - In-depth testing and analysis of the effectiveness and performance of the target web site. Results will be used to produce a detailed engineering report of how to improve the site; ranging from network and packet level issues, web server issues, HTTP compression and caching, through to application issues and the performance and configuration of transactions and functions on the site.

SV-Accessibility - In-depth testing of a web site's ability to meet the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines, and thus meet the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements - delivered using a combination of site-wide scripted tools and manual interpretation and usability judgment.

SciVisum also performs regular in-depth surveys of website effectiveness and online sales performance practice, eg:
SciVisum : Lost Online Sales Study - October 2007,
SciVisum : Online Travel Study 2007,
SciVisum : Male/Female eCommerce Study 2006,
SciVisum : Regional eCommerce Study 2006,
SciVisum : Christmas eCommerce Study 2005,
Scivisum Christmas eCommerce Report 2004,
SciVisum eCommerce Performance Report 2004,
SciVisum Web Accessibility Report 2004
SciVisum Web Effectiveness Report 2003,
and contributed to the "Better Connected" website research of the Society of IT Managers in Local Government in both 2004 and 2005, www.socitm.org

SciVisum does not build or host web systems, and is thus able to offer fully independent test and audit services and consultancy.

SciVisum's offices are 50 minutes from central London, England.