Case Study: Leading Communications Company achieves rapid, 24/7 partner onboarding with Parasoft Virtualize

Eliminating Database Dependencies that Delay Performance Testing

A leading financial services firm faced slowing partner onboarding because its costly mainframe-based partner portal was shared with internal development and QA teams. Scheduling conflicts, environment clean-up between teams, and routine mainframe updates caused downtime that blocked global partners from completing integration and certification — delaying revenue-generating connections and making a dedicated secondary mainframe environment prohibitively expensive.

The firm used Parasoft Virtualize to capture 100% of the required mainframe behavior by recording requests and responses (SOAP/XML over HTTPS) and exposing those behaviors as virtual assets. New partners are provisioned in minutes by assigning data ranges, partners get a stable 24/7 test environment without touching production mainframes, and internal teams can deploy and test freely — eliminating scheduling conflicts, reducing onboarding delays, and enabling more efficient partner integration.