Case Study: University at Buffalo achieves fast, safe future-date testing for PeopleSoft with Solution-Soft Time Machine

Time Machine® Helps University of Buffalo on PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Deployment and Ongoing Support

The University at Buffalo needed to deploy Oracle/PeopleSoft Campus Solutions across a rolling 12–24 month rollout and had an ongoing requirement to test time-sensitive code (financial aid, dates, fees, schedules) without changing system clocks in a shared test/dev environment. Time-sensitive Kerberos and Active Directory authentication meant even small clock shifts (more than five minutes) would break logins, making conventional date changes impractical. University at Buffalo evaluated and selected Solution-Soft’s Time Machine to address this challenge.

Solution-Soft provided Time Machine licenses and support, enabling virtualized clocks for specific applications and users while keeping the system clock unchanged so Kerberos authentication remained intact. The result: faster, safer testing and deployments, avoidance of OS/database instability or restores, and smooth OS migrations (Solaris to Linux). University at Buffalo reports six years of successful use and praised Solution-Soft’s responsiveness—Solution-Soft delivered a kernel-compatibility fix within 72 hours.

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