Great Hurry + Great Resignation provide conditions for Leapwork to scale

No code software test automation platform Leapwork doubled its headcount and customer count in the last year. Now it’s adding to its leadership team and board of directors just as the “Great Hurry” and “Great Resignation” create ideal conditions for it to succeed.

HFS Research CEO and Founder Phil Fersht has called out that 50% of enterprises are moving even faster on their investments in a Great Hurry to become more effective in their ecosystem—even while facing the skills and labor constraints of the Great Resignation. That can lead to increased risks to the quality of outcomes—software development included. This is where Leapwork steps in.

“No code” automation design offers faster, lower-risk software outcomes for the enterprise

Leapwork offers a no code automation platform, promising you will “never write a single line of code” for test automation. Automating many software-testing steps frees QA departments and skilled developers from mundane and repetitive test tasks to get on with innovating improvements. The Leapwork platform offers visual storylines to make automated test processes quick and easy to design.

Automating software testing offers several benefits for the enterprise. It can cut development cycles, increase speed to market, and reduce risks associated with software failures. Test reusability is simpler, too. Testing can be less structured and more exploratory, reducing authoring time and making testing easier to scale.

Salesforce cozies up to Leapwork, installing VP as a board observer

US private equity company KKR and Salesforce Ventures led the $62 million Series B round for Leapwork last August. The funding will be channeled toward expansion in the Americas, growing its talent, and product development. A strategic move is, that Salesforce has installed its VP of Product Management, Farhan Tahir, as a board observer at Leapwork, indicating a deepening partnership with the 2015-founded Danish firm. Looking into the future, perhaps we will see the Copenhagen-headquartered business under the Salesforce umbrella at some point. Leapwork already offers specific “Salesforce automation” aimed at speeding and scaling critical enterprise processes with a platform both business and IT can use.

Another new addition to the leadership team is Christopher Vik as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Vik’s track record includes stints as SVP EMEA for corporate travel business TripActions and GM and GVP EMEA for cyber security firm Cybereason.

Continuous monitoring offers automation to tackle seasonal releases

The Leapwork platform also applies AI to continuously monitor for such challenges as Salesforce’s seasonal releases, auto-generating updates, and changes to avoid disruption to business continuity.

Other technologies are also supported in the enterprise. These include SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, ServiceNow, Citrix, and legacy mainframe green screen-driven tech.

No code automation-of-anything—including software testing—builds resilience for organizations in the face of the skills gaps and labor shortages of the Great Resignation. Additionally, facilities quicker launch of improved and new product versions, an area where teams and managers get frustrated very quickly because of delays.

The industry-agnostic nature of the solution, ease of navigation, and deployment, combined with its ability to empower non-developers to build and test software and automation, has resulted in a strong and diverse client base of industry leaders such as PayPal, Mercedes Benz, BNP Paribas, and Saint Gobain.

Keep it simple: Leapwork must stay focused on testing

HFS believes that Leapwork would be wise to keep its offering simple and targeted on test solutions, avoiding the temptation to be diluted by claims about their potential impact on amorphous concepts such as digital transformation. The market for test automation is growing quickly, and growth will speed up as no code/low code solutions expand the number of “citizen developers” and accelerate the amount of software development practiced engineers can deliver.

The Bottom Line: Leapwork may be the right solution at the right time as enterprises balance the Great Hurry with the Great Resignation

Enterprise leaders are stuck between the Great Resignation rock and the Great Hurry hard place. Here is a space in which the hurry-up demand for software can result in bug-laden outcomes rushed to market. The no code nature of Leapwork’s automation testing may be just the right solution at just the right time. And with Salesforce by its side, if it stays focused, the Danish company has the opportunity to scale fast, just when the industry looks like it needs it most.