Case Study: Capita Consulting achieves successful Exadata migration and rapid, risk-free date testing with Solution-Soft’s Time Machine

Time Machine® Enables Successful Exadata Migration for Largest Broadcasting Company in the World

Capita Consulting worked with the largest broadcasting organization in the world on a migration of TV Licensing applications to an Oracle Exadata environment and faced a major testing challenge: iterative date testing across a complex landscape of LDOMs, Sun containers and Exadata-backed databases risked corruption and required coordinated system clock changes that would take days. To address this, the broadcaster and Capita Consulting adopted Solution-Soft’s Time Machine to avoid risky manual clock changes while maintaining frequent, high-volume date testing.

Solution-Soft implemented Time Machine on the LDOM-configured application tier so testers could set virtual clocks instantly without database restarts or environment corruption, enabling parallel testing across instances and reducing hardware and operational costs. The Time Machine deployment cut testing time, kept the Exadata migration on schedule and budget, and let teams run campaigns and regression tests faster and more reliably, with the vendor Solution-Soft credited for preserving environment integrity during the build of the UK’s largest Exadata database system.

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