Case Study: Pearson achieves faster, compliant software maintenance and reduced rework with OpenText StarTeam

StarTeam provides a fully integrated software development process, improving productivity and saving time

Pearson, the global learning company, needed to maintain decades-old testing software (PCAT and MAT) with a small, agile team while avoiding costly rework and preserving a complete, auditable development history. Faced with pressure to migrate to disparate tools like SharePoint, Bitbucket, and JIRA, the team argued that moving 15 years of integrated development history away from Micro Focus StarTeam would be risky and inefficient.

They kept and expanded use of StarTeam Enterprise as a single, extendable repository to manage source code, change requests, defects, tests and design documents, with tight version control and build-label linkage between code and requests. The result was faster root-cause analysis (minutes instead of months), improved distributed-team collaboration, nearly 43,000 change requests tracked over 15 years, hours of rework saved, and continued regulatory compliance—secured through a successful business case and ongoing partnership with Micro Focus.

Pearson

Lara Gillespie

PSE Technical Project Manager