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
Aufbau und Modernisierung von Geschäftsanwendungen mit moderner Technologie
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernisierung von IBM-Mainframe-Anwendungen, Bereitstellungsprozessen, Zugriff und Infrastruktur
Modernisieren Sie den Zugriff auf Host-Anwendungen: benutzerfreundlicher, einfacher zu integrieren, einfacher zu verwalten und sicherer.
Für die unternehmensweite Interoperabilität von Systemen
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
Sichere Entwicklung, Sicherheitstests und kontinuierliche Überwachung und Schutz
Augment human intelligence
Verschlüsselung, Tokenisierung und Schlüsselverwaltung für die Anonymisierung und den Schutz der Daten.
Ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz zur Identitäts- und Zugriffsverwaltung
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
Erkennung bekannter und unbekannter Bedrohungen durch Korrelation, Datenaufnahme und -analyse
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
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
Ansprechende Endnutzererfahrung mit auf maschinellem Lernen basiertem, effizientem Service Desk
Die erste vorkonfigurierte autonome Überwachungslösung für hybride IT
Automatisierung und Verwaltung von traditionellen, virtuellen und softwaredefinierten Netzwerken
Erkennung und Verwaltung von Konfigurationselementen (CIs) in hybriden IT-Umgebungen.
Vereinfachung der Fulfillment-Automatisierung und Durchsetzung von Governance
Durchgängige Automatisierung von IT-Prozessen
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automatisierung von Bereitstellung, Patching und Compliance im Rechenzentrum
Erstellung, Sicherung und Skalierung automatisierter Geschäftsprozesse im gesamten Unternehmen
Gewinnen Sie mithilfe von Echtzeit-Analysen Erkenntnisse aus Big Data und durchsuchen Sie Ihre unstrukturierten Daten.
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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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Modernisierung von Kerngeschäftssystemen zur Förderung der Unternehmenstransformation
Aufbau und Modernisierung von Geschäftsanwendungen mit moderner Technologie
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
Modernisierung von IBM-Mainframe-Anwendungen, Bereitstellungsprozessen, Zugriff und Infrastruktur
Modernisieren Sie den Zugriff auf Host-Anwendungen: benutzerfreundlicher, einfacher zu integrieren, einfacher zu verwalten und sicherer.
Für die unternehmensweite Interoperabilität von Systemen
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
Sicherheit als zentraler Faktor bei all Ihren Handlungen – Prozesse, Anwendungen, Identitäten und Daten
Sichere Entwicklung, Sicherheitstests und kontinuierliche Überwachung und Schutz
Augment human intelligence
Verschlüsselung, Tokenisierung und Schlüsselverwaltung für die Anonymisierung und den Schutz der Daten.
Ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz zur Identitäts- und Zugriffsverwaltung
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
Erkennung bekannter und unbekannter Bedrohungen durch Korrelation, Datenaufnahme und -analyse
Access all products in CyberRes
Zuverlässige, bewährte Lösungen für rechtliche Zwecke, Compliance und Datenschutz
Analytics for text, audio, video, and image data
Reduce risk, cost, and maintenance, and T2M
AI and machine learning for data analysis
Enterprise backup/disaster recovery
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
Beschleunigung Ihrer IT-Betriebsabläufe auf DevOps-Geschwindigkeit
Ansprechende Endnutzererfahrung mit auf maschinellem Lernen basiertem, effizientem Service Desk
Die erste vorkonfigurierte autonome Überwachungslösung für hybride IT
Automatisierung und Verwaltung von traditionellen, virtuellen und softwaredefinierten Netzwerken
Erkennung und Verwaltung von Konfigurationselementen (CIs) in hybriden IT-Umgebungen.
Vereinfachung der Fulfillment-Automatisierung und Durchsetzung von Governance
Durchgängige Automatisierung von IT-Prozessen
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
Automatisierung von Bereitstellung, Patching und Compliance im Rechenzentrum
Erstellung, Sicherung und Skalierung automatisierter Geschäftsprozesse im gesamten Unternehmen
Access all products in IT Operations Management
Entwickeln Sie Ihre Strategie und transformieren Sie Ihre hybride IT.
Gewinnen Sie mithilfe von Echtzeit-Analysen Erkenntnisse aus Big Data und durchsuchen Sie Ihre unstrukturierten Daten.
Ermöglichen Sie Ihrem Team, die Leistung Ihres Unternehmens auf das Maximum zu steigern.
Development productivity increase
Annual cost savings
Simplify support and maintenance for a complex production environment, while achieving cost savings. Empire Life wanted to move towards DevOps and needed to be more responsive to growing business requirements.
Like many other financial institutions, Empire Life depended on a mainframe to manage its insurance and investment policy administration systems. Over the years other environments had been added resulting in a highly complex production environment which was expensive to run and maintain.
Grace Kennedy, VP, Business Solutions Delivery with Empire Life, explains, “We felt constrained in our plans to move towards more agile development and the need to respond to increasing business requirements. Although the mainframe is ultimately very scalable, this comes with a price tag that we just couldn’t justify anymore. It was clear to us that we needed to move off the mainframe from a support simplification and cost perspective. However, with over 40 years of business intelligence residing on the mainframe, this was no easy undertaking and we needed to be completely confident of success.”
Empire Life engaged with Gartner to define an RFP process. The selection criteria were a cultural fit with Empire Life, costs, experience in similar projects, and customer feedback. After a thorough market evaluation, Micro Focus was chosen as the partner to walk this journey with Empire Life.
The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) is a Canadian life insurance and financial services company. Its mission is to make it simple, fast and easy for Canadians to get the investment, insurance and group benefits coverage they need to build wealth, generate income, and achieve financial security.
Micro Focus Professional Services closely engaged with the Empire Life teams to make the transition to a distributed environment as seamless and transparent as possible. A full application landscape analysis determined which applications would be eliminated and others to be migrated. Using Micro Focus Enterprise Developer most of the code could be cleanly converted and deployed to the new environment using Micro Focus Enterprise Server.
Although productivity gains hadn’t been a motivation for the move, John vanZanten, a Senior Developer with Empire Life, was pleasantly surprised, “Once we were live with Enterprise Developer it became clear that our development time had accelerated. The solution feels more Windows-like and our developers, including seasoned mainframe COBOL developers, were comfortable with it really quickly, finding it more intuitive and user-friendly. The development toolset is stronger, and we all love the debugging capabilities. There is just no comparison at all with mainframe debugging.”
The data is far more accessible and easier to analyze for developers. The new modern platform opened the door to increase efficiency by introducing GitHub and JIRA, both fully integrated into the Micro Focus solutions. GitHub is used to automate source control which was a completely manual effort. JIRA is used to track bugs and issues. Integrating these functions directly into the development cycle has resulted in a higher quality product, with more control over the environments.
The partnership with Micro Focus was fully collaborative, according to Kennedy, “Micro Focus was always at the table with us as we moved through this process. Having completed the move, we realized the potential. We engaged with Nutanix to introduce a virtualized environment and improve our disaster recovery (DR) capability. As a result, our DR is now drastically improved at a third of the price we previously paid.”
This was a large and complex project, with many integration challenges. The size and scale should not be underestimated, but the results are all the sweeter for it. The Empire Life commitment and project management was central to the success. Up to 85 people were involved in testing and benchmarking every single element of the new platform to ensure a smooth transition.
“The new Micro Focus development environment has opened our eyes to so much opportunity,” adds vanZanten.
John Vanzanten – SENIOR DEVELOPER
Empire Life
Richard Cleaver, CIO of Empire Life, concludes, “This was initially a cost-saving exercise. It has delivered; we are saving $1.5 million every year. However, looking back on it, the cultural shift in making this move is far more significant than any cost saving.
Richard Cleaver – CIO
Empire Life