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	"Time Machine is invaluable for our on-time deployment of the Change Program Management System (CPMS) for our client, The Australian Taxation Office.   I really appreciate the quick turn-around time from Solution-Soft team on this requirement.  This is indicative of the professional and consistent service that Solution-Soft has been providing us on an on-going basis which in turn has helped us to deliver and meet our clients requirements in a timely manner." Rahul Joshi, Information Analyst EDS Australia "At Medavie Blue Cross, we have to conduct date forward testing for our internal provincial claims systems on a regular basis. With Time Machine, we"re able to host multiple Oracle testing environments on the same system for multiple developers and testers. This not only saves significant costs for potential hardware and software, but also streamlines our application testing process." Michael Jones, Unix System Administrator Medavie Blue Cross "Using Time Machine, Telstra was able to test all the scenarios of their SAP R/3 upgraded release in the allotted project time, while saving money on system administrator resources." Pooven Govender, Consultant/SAP BASIS Team Deloitte Consulting - Telstra "Time Machine provided a quick and efficient way to date forward servers without having to build a solution or change application code.The product (Time Machine) has worked out as advertised and we do not have any issues.  It simply works! " Doug Rowe, Manager of Distribution Solutions Nationwide "Our client, one of the largest gas trading companies, is very happy with Time Machine. Without it, it would have been extremely cumbersome, resource intensive, & costly to do the same type of SAP application testing & certification." James Fish, SAP Basis Consultant Accenture "Time Machine will be very beneficial to our Windows NT/2000 terminal server enterprise customers and application service providers that are providing services to end-users from different time zones." David Hamilton, Product Manager Microsoft Corp. “Time Machine is a very worthwhile product. It has a very important and valid use and we were able to get it to work successfully with our entire application, both the online portion and the batch portion.” Mike McCormick, project manager Ohio Department of Administrative Services. Time Machine Saved CHD Meridian Healthcare $750,000 learn more Time Machine Named New & Improved Product
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Time Machine^®

Time Machine^® is a patent-pending software application designed to facilitate testing and simulation of specified system dates and times without modifying or resetting the system clock.  This allows defined applications and users to run under any defined future date, past date, or time zone desired, while the underlying system time remains unchanged.  With this ability, Time Machine proves itself as a powerful tool for performing "what-if" testing on systems resources and programs.

Time Machine provides a unique solution for user-based time morphing for Unix and Windows Servers. Time Machine can simultaneously run up to 20,000 individually defined virtual clocks at once and support both group and user level time offsets. 

In simple cases, moving the system clock forward to test applications requires additional hardware and software, which will add direct costs for acquiring additional servers and licenses, as the test machines can not also be used for production purposes.  This method also effects indirect costs, including support staff and overhead, network issues, reliability, etc. that come from running a larger environment.  With Time Machine, running processes can be virtual time-segregated between testing and production applications, allowing a single machine to function as many.

In a network environment where secure logins are used, such as with Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell's eDirectory, or Sun Microsystems' Sun One directory services, users login in with a time-based ticketing system through Kerberos, a network authentication protocol.  One of the procedures employed by the Kerberos process to maintain network security is the hard requirement that any machine that participates in the network must have it's system clock synchronized to be no more than five minutes different than the Domain Controller's time.  This clock synchronization is necessary to prevent an attacker from using an old authenticator to masquerade as a valid user.  The exclusion feature in Time Machine overcomes this issue by allowing the Kerberos login's dynamically linked libraries and executables to run under the valid system time, so that all access tokens are requested with the correct time.  This process, combined with Time Machine's file date-stamping (using real-time variables), ensures that all backups function correctly, file replication services run without disruption, and all machines running Time Machine can freely participate in the secure network.

ASPs and corporate data centers that support users across multiple time zones can also benefit from this versatile software package.  Rather than implementing the typical approach, one server per time zone, Time Machine provides a cost-effective, single-server solution. Easy to implement, a single copy of Time Machine installed on a server supports unlimited time zones.  With Time Machine, servers can now provide remote clients/users with "local time" as required for legal, accounting, and other sensitive and/or critical time and date applications: Terminal Server Programs run in user time, rather than system time.

Solution-Soft invites you to test Time Machine today. Free evaluations are available through our sales group.