Driving improvement: Insurance Commission of Western Australia’s Mainframe Migration saves money and improves customer service
Announcement posted by Micro Focus 12 Nov 2012
Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing, and management solutions, will showcase the four steps needed for successful mainframe application modernisation and provide a customer perspective from the Insurance Commission of Western Australia, at the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo at the Gold Coast, November 12-15, 2012.
A
government trading enterprise with 360 staff, the Insurance Commission of
Western Australia (ICWA) is the sole compulsory Third Party Insurer for motor
vehicle personal injuries in Western Australia.
In the session, Glenn Myers, Chief
Information Officer at ICWA, will explain why his organisation selected Micro
Focus to mitigate the high cost of ownership and lack of disaster recovery
capabilities of its aging Z9 Mainframe platform, while protecting the
Intellectual Property embedded in its existing applications and maximising a platform that could
be easily leveraged and enhanced without COBOL skills.
Using Micro Focus COBOL/CICS platform running on Linux Intel servers and a DB2 UDB database, ICWA has moved applications to a new platform to deliver benefits including cost savings, higher online system availability and web services enablement.
Myers commented: “At Gartner Symposium / ITxpo, we will be speaking about our business case for mainframe modernisation; in terms of the specific issues and challenges we faced with our project, the outcomes and key success factors.”
The project was a resounding success. “The benefits are not just financial - the number of open system test environments that we can make available is like an internal cloud.”
Session Details
Micro Focus: 4 Key steps to Application Modernisation - A Customer Perspective
When: Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 12:15 to 13:00
Where: Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, level 1, room 5
What: This session will fast-track your understanding of the 4 key steps to Modernise Mainframe Applications and improve IT Service Delivery. Micro Focus will present the Modernisation Journey that starts with the simplification of the application portfolio, speeding up delivery processes, and offering ‘fit for purpose’ choices for optimal application deployment.
Who:
· Derek Britton, Director, Solution Marketing at Micro Focus
· Glenn Myers, CIO, Insurance Commission of Western Australia
For more information about Micro Focus and its enterprise application modernisation and continuous quality assurance solutions, please visit Micro Focus at booth A10 at the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo or go to:
http://www.microfocus.com/solutions/mainframesolution/
http://www.microfocus.com/mcro/softwarequalityassurance/
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