Time Machine® Helps Life Sciences Companies Achieve Cost Savings and Speedy Deployment of Critical Pre-Clinical Applications
Monday, December 9, 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT
Challenge: Testing Mission Critical Pre-Clinical Software Suite
Instem needed to deploy their pre-clinical trial software suite for their clients (major genetics drug companies) within a very short timeframe. This system provides clients with the ability to effectively document all stages of their pre-clinical testing as required by the FDA. Additionally, the FDA requires full documentation of the deployment process and successful functional testing of these systems, which are audited to ensure adherence to the required deployment standards.
The basic application architecture has a client software component containing the majority of the application logic, a backend database and a reporting module to generate usage reports.
The deployment process requires performing a number of functional tests using future dates to simulate the pre-clinical drug approval process. Performing this test in real time was not a possible solution and neither was simply changing the system dates, since it would not allow any other users to log into this server.
Additionally, unless they duplicated this environment, they could only perform one set of tests at a time.
The Time Machine Solution:
Using Time Machine, Instem found they could simulate a future date for one or more users while other users on their server would remain unaffected and see the current date.
They simply created a simulated date using Time Machine for each tester. Whenever each tester ran his tests, he saw the required dates rather than a common date. With typical validation testing taking 3-18 months, Time Machine allowed Instem to dramatically reduce their testing times, manpower and system resource requirements 3 to 5 times less, thereby saving their client tens of thousands of dollars in deployment costs.
According to Instem’s Validation Services Manager Vince D’Angelo, “I was impressed and pleased with the whole experience of using Time Machine to accomplish the date simulation for our testing.”
Instem has standardized deployment testing with Time Machine for their world-wide customers in the Life-Science & Pharmaceutical sectors. With Time Machine, the deployment and acceptance process can be done in weeks at a customer site rather than months.
About Instem:
Instem is a world-leading information solutions provider for Life Sciences R&D. Their software applications accelerate drug and chemical development by increasing client productivity and enhancing the processes that lead to safer, more effective products
About Time Machine
Software Virtual Clocks for Time Travel Testing. Simulate past and future dates effortlessly with Time Machine®, enabling comprehensive testing of your date- and time-sensitive applications. Ideal for validating critical business processes like quarter-end and year-end processing, billing cycles, regulatory compliance (including Year 2038), and policy lifecycles during integration, upgrades, virtualization, cloud migration, and containerization. Eliminate the risks and downtime associated with system clock resets in complex environments like Active Directory and Kerberos.
About Solution-Soft
The Leader in Virtual Clock and Time Travel Testing Solutions
Since 1997, Solution-Soft has been at the forefront of virtual clock software and time travel testing solutions, empowering organizations in the ever-evolving digital world. Our flagship product, Time Machine, has revolutionized application testing, enabling thousands of companies, including 47 of the Fortune 100 US companies, to reduce costs and accelerate project delivery by an average of 3 – 10 times across traditional systems and containerized applications.
The Time Machine Product Suite extends these capabilities, optimizing cloud migration, test automation, Agile/DevOps, and containerization testing. Our latest innovation, Time Machine for Containers, supports standalone Docker containers and large-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters (including a 16,000+ CPU core, 1,300+ namespace deployments).
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