Case Study: Varsity Logistics achieves 50% faster delivery and fewer release errors with ARCAD Software

Varsity Logistics - Customer Case Study

Varsity Logistics, the leading U.S. provider of integrated multi-carrier shipping software on the IBM i platform, faced an unsustainable maintenance burden: about 300 customer-specific versions, thousands of programs and files, and virtually no up-to-date technical documentation. Manual patching and testing stretched major release cycles to eight months and made change management error-prone, so Varsity engaged ARCAD Software, initially adopting ARCAD-Observer for automated documentation and later ARCAD-Verifier and ARCAD-Skipper for testing and change management.

ARCAD Software delivered an integrated solution—ARCAD-Observer for retro-documentation, ARCAD-Verifier to capture and run regression test scenarios automatically, and ARCAD-Skipper for controlled deployment—bringing automation, single-repository control, and repeatable test campaigns. The results: time-to-delivery was cut in half (from 8 to 4 months), hot-fix cycles shortened to about 3 days, releases shipped with fewer errors than ever, QA staffing reduced to three, and ARCAD-Verifier paid for itself within two months while enabling rapid ROI on the wider ARCAD suite.

Varsity Logistics

Doug Dolge

Senior Director of Product Development