Case Study: Companies House and LogicaCMG achieve on-track, within-budget CHIPS migration with Solution-Soft Time Machine

Time Machine® Keeps Mission Critical Project On-Track & Within Budget

Companies House and LogicaCMG faced a complex migration of the CHIPS application from a Fujitsu mainframe to a Sun multi-tier web-based system, requiring multiple isolated test, training and model office environments. LogicaCMG found they could not create the necessary separate test environments without buying additional servers and software or repeatedly stopping applications and changing system clocks, threatening the project’s schedule and budget; they turned to Solution-Soft and its Time Machine product.

Solution-Soft’s Time Machine date/time simulation tool let LogicaCMG run nine logical test environments with independent time settings on existing hardware, without restarting core applications or impacting other environments. By avoiding procurement of extra servers and software licenses, Time Machine enabled completion of critical testing, produced substantial cost savings and kept the migration on track and within budget, with Solution-Soft providing straightforward installation and responsive support.

Companies House and LogicaCMG

John Pinkerton

Principal Project Consultant