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
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化:更易于使用,更易于集成,更易于管理,更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
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
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
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
通过关联、数据引入和分析,检测已知和未知威胁
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
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化,执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
Micro Focus 一站式培训
培养技能,获得成功
加快速度、消除瓶颈,不断提升软件交付能力
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
Access all products in application delivery management
实现核心业务系统现代化,以推动业务转型
使用现代技术构建和更新业务应用程序
The leading solution for COBOL application modernization
实现 IBM 大型机应用程序、交付流程、访问以及基础设施的现代化
实现主机应用程序访问的现代化:更易于使用,更易于集成,更易于管理,更加安全
获得企业范围内的系统互操作性
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
让您的任何工作都以安全为中心;操作、应用程序、身份和数据
安全开发、安全性测试和持续监视与保护
Augment human intelligence
加密、标记和密钥管理有效实现数据标识消除和隐私
一种 Identity and Access Management 的综合方法
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
通过关联、数据引入和分析,检测已知和未知威胁
Access all products in CyberRes
值得信赖和久经考验的合法、合规和隐私解决方案
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
使您的 IT Operations 与 DevOps 齐头并进
结合最终用户体验和基于机器学习的高效服务台
首个自主的容器化混合 IT 监视解决方案
实现自动化并管理传统的虚拟软件定义网络
在混合 IT 环境中发现和管理配置项目 (CI)。
简化实施自动化,执行管理
自动化端到端 IT 进程
Manage IT & software assets for better compliance
实现自动化供应、修补和数据中心合规性
在企业内构建、保护和扩展自动化业务流程
Access all products in IT Operations Management
制定战略,变革混合 IT。
凭借实时分析和搜索非结构化数据,获得大数据洞察分析。
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
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