Case Study: Major UK Media Company achieves faster application delivery, $2.49M savings and 886% ROI with OpenText Service Virtualization

Micro Focus Service Virtualization transforms application development

A major UK communications, media and entertainment company faced slowing application delivery because development and testing were hampered by short test windows, unstable downstream systems, unavailable third‑party and legacy components, and time‑consuming test data and environment setup. These dependencies made it difficult to meet rapidly changing market demands and ship high‑quality applications quickly.

The company adopted Micro Focus Service Virtualization, virtualizing more than 70 internal and external services (including third‑party credit checks), typically within three days, to simulate unavailable components and enable immediate functional and performance testing. Over a 38‑month assessment the approach eliminated key dependencies, accelerated time‑to‑market, improved software quality, delivered $2.49M in test and environment cost savings and achieved an 886% return on investment.