Case Study: Acorn Technology achieves 2–4 months faster QA and $92,000 savings with Solution-Soft Time Machine

Acorn Technology - Customer Case Study

Acorn Technology, Inc., which implements personalization applications for financial transaction and healthcare clients, faced date-testing challenges on HP/UX for a major pharmaceutical project. Their QA team needed to run multiple date/time scenarios without buying extra hardware, batch test runs to off-peak hours, and deploy a tool immediately in the project lifecycle to reduce training and ramp-up time; they turned to Solution-Soft and its Time Machine product.

Solution-Soft’s Time Machine lets users log in under user-specified time settings so server processes run with altered dates, enabling quick “what-if” testing of date-triggered events and batch scheduling. Acorn had Time Machine installed and in use the next day, avoided building a limited PERL tool, and achieved measurable results — saving 2–4 months of effort and $92,000 in overall domain costs while enabling off-peak testing without additional hardware.

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