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Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
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Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
Build business applications using new tools & platforms
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Modernize mainframe applications for the Cloud
Modernize host application access
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Access host data and automate processes with RPA
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Build secure software fast
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Discover, analyze, and protect sensitive data
Drive IT ecosystem with identity-centric expertise
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
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Track changes and activities in managed services
Get fast, accurate detection of threats
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Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
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Automate and orchestrate processes end to end
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ValueEdge: Value Stream Management
Align corporate investments with business strategy
Continuous quality from requirements to delivery
Scale enterprise SCCM with security and compliance
Resilient AI-powered functional test automation
Enterprise-level requirements management
Deliver continuous application performance testing
Plan, track, orchestrate, and release applications
Govern quality and implement auditable processes
Automate deployments for continuous delivery
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Modernize Core Business Systems to Drive Business Transformation
Build business applications using new tools & platforms
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernize mainframe applications for the Cloud
Modernize host application access
Discover the future of CORBA
Modern mainframe application delivery for IBM Z
Secure, zero-footprint access to host applications
Access host data and automate processes with RPA
Multi-factor Authentication for IBM z/OS endpoints
Access all products in Application Modernization & Connectivity
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Build secure software fast
Augment human intelligence
Discover, analyze, and protect sensitive data
Drive IT ecosystem with identity-centric expertise
Deliver simplified, secure access to users
Scale to billions of identities with IGA platform
Gain control of privileged user activities
Track changes and activities in managed services
Get fast, accurate detection of threats
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Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
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Unified traditional and mobile device management
Meet regulatory & privacy retention requirements
Email, IM, and chat-based collaboration
Mobile workforce communication & collaboration
Secure critical file storage and print services
Access all products in Information Management and Governance
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Manage IT & non-IT services with automation and AI
Discover, monitor, and remediate with AIOps
Monitor and optimize complex networks
Discover, manage, and map configurations & assets
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Automate and orchestrate processes end to end
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automate server provisioning, patching, and compliance
Automate screen-based human actions with robots
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powering electronic payments for over 5,100 organizations around the world
More than 1,000 of the largest financial institutions rely on ACI
Automate a manual software testing process, which was time-consuming and didn’t provide the visibility the company required. ACI wanted to reduce the administrative overhead associated with application testing and improve its reporting capability.
Through its comprehensive suite of software and SaaS-based solutions, ACI delivers real-time, immediate payments capabilities and enables the industry’s most complete omnichannel payments experience. A continuous integration process ensures application testing is at the center of the software development lifecycle at ACI, and every day, over 10,000 tests are executed.
However, the lack of a centralized test repository meant that ACI didn’t have complete visibility, as James Griffiths, Automation Architect at ACI, explains: “We spent lots of time manually creating reports. The administrative overhead for reporting, assigning tests, and checking execution progress was just too high and we needed an automated solution to keep pace with the everchanging and growing business requirements.”
ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments (UP) company, powers electronic payments for over 5,100 organizations around the world. More than 1,000 of the largest financial institutions rely on ACI to execute $14 trillion each day in payments and securities.
James Griffiths – AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
ACI Worldwide
A thorough market review highlighted the Silk suite of products as a solution to improve test integration and management. Micro Focus Silk Test, Silk Central, and Silk Performer were soon implemented to create a streamlined, end-to-end, application testing process. The integration between the tools paid dividends straight away through the ability to integrate requirements and defects into the testing cycle; have a real-time test execution status; plan test execution and maintenance; and provide structured reporting.
Griffiths comments: “We really like the Silk Test scripting capability, which allows us to perform hands-off installs and updates to our payment solutions. Silk Performer helps us to execute multiple tests from command line by running a batch file. We have built a framework to automate the execution of load tests and the generation of custom reports to save time that can be dedicated to actual performance engineering. The Silk Performer features make it easy for us to analyze test results, create reports, and troubleshoot any errors.”
By running load and duration tests with Silk Performer, ACI can identify and fix system and code bottlenecks to ensure the application’s reliability and scalability. These non-functional requirements become critical considerations early in the software development life cycle, to avoid having to do costly fixes late in the cycle.
Using the automation features of Silk Test, ACI can test earlier in the development cycle using a continuous integration strategy. Through early testing, the application reliability and quality has increased considerably.
The partnership with Micro Focus throughout the implementation and subsequent use of the Silk solutions was great, as Griffiths adds: “The Silk tools are now key to our software release schedule and support is very important to us. Micro Focus support is very responsive and professional and has not let us down.”
James Griffiths – AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
ACI Worldwide
Silk Central and Silk Test have eliminated the administrative overhead and automated test assignment and execution. A full reporting process is included.
Griffiths concludes: “We can deliver new software releases much faster using our Silk-powered testing process. We save two days of manual intervention during the install and update phase of each release. With nearly 60 releases each year, this adds up to a massive productivity gain for us; time we can now spend on developing new features and added value for our customers.
