Fortitude 17 Limited
About us
Fortitude 17 is an independent testing, quality assurance, change management and training consultancy. We help finance teams, accountancy firms and their software partners get ERP, finance and payroll systems live without nasty surprises.
If you're at Digital Accountancy Show, you're probably dealing with new cloud platforms, more automation and more integrations, while the team still has to close the month on time. When a system gets it wrong, it's usually the finance team who find out, often at month end, year end or on payday. We find the problems before they do.
How You Benefit
Numbers you can trust from Day One - with evidence
No surprises at month end, year end or on payday
Test evidence that stands up to audit
Budget protected: defects caught early cost far less
A straight answer on readiness before the Go-Live decision
Your finance team stays on the day job
Faster adoption and shorter hypercare
Independent assurance behind your recommendations, for accountancy and advisory firms
What We Do
We manage the whole testing lifecycle, from strategy and governance through to scripting, execution, defect management and handover into business as usual. That covers regression, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, mobile and cross-browser testing, plus automation. We plan and run user acceptance testing so your finance and payroll people are involved properly, not dropped into it a week before Go-Live. We can also build and mentor your internal test team so quality carries on after we've left.
On the training side we run train-the-trainer and train-the-team workshops for QA and testing, and produce training video and PDF content written in your users' language rather than the vendor's.
Who It's For
Accountancy and advisory firms that select, implement or support finance systems for clients and want independent assurance behind their recommendations. It also suits finance directors, financial controllers and transformation leads facing an ERP, payroll or HCM change. And software vendors, resellers and implementation partners who want an independent QA partner. We work through partner introductions and offer a revenue share on successful referrals.
Why Fortitude 17?
We're independent. We're not the team that built the system, so we have no reason to soften a finding. If a solution isn't ready, we'll be the ones to say so. Every team member is ISTQB certified and works through a year of structured training alongside project work. Our founding team comes from professional and international sport, and that shapes how we work: calm under pressure, close as a team, and honest about where things stand.
The commercial case is simple.
Research cited by IBM puts the cost of a defect found in production at around thirty times that of one caught at the requirements stage. On a recent global D365 Finance & Supply Chain implementation, independent QA and UAT readiness work helped the client go live on time with no severity 1 defects, and we've supported the same approach on Finance ERP programmes for all of our clients.
Come and talk to us at stand A17 on 7th and 8th October.
If you've got a Go-Live coming up, a payroll or finance system you don't quite trust, or a client project that needs an independent pair of eyes, we'd like to hear about it.