In the age of digital transformation, business applications are linchpins for organizational initiatives, facilitating transformative changes and enhancing consumer experiences. This highlights the critical need for robust validation and testing processes, with independent validation emerging as an indispensable contributor to ensuring the quality and reliability of modernized applications. By allocating a significant portion of their budget to independent validation, organizations report higher success rates in digital transformation endeavours. This white paper explores the pivotal role of independent validation in contributing to the success of modernizing business applications.