A leading company in the consumer finance marketplace was having stability and performance issues with their existing financial processing applications. These legacy applications had become increasingly difficult to maintain, enhance, deploy and run.

A major supplier of smart grid solutions to utilities needed assistance validating the scalability of their newly developed head-end system. While the vendor could test the functionality of the head-end system with test meters, they had no way of validating if the head end system would scale to support the large number of AMI enabled meters that would be frequently communicating back to the head-end system once their product was released.