Hibernian General Insurance of Ireland
Hibernian General Insurance of Ireland, established in 1908, is one of Ireland’s largest and most respected insurers.
The Challenge
To better serve insurance brokers and policy holders while reducing the time and cost to administer insurance policies.
The Solution
Modernize and extend the Branch Policy System (BPS) to the Web with an interface that leverages and reuses existing key functionality. Refactoring was used to separate the presentation layer and the database access layer from the business logic. blive, a Web-based interface, leverages essential business logic from the BPS system.
The Benefits
- Reduced policy administration costs.
- Improved service to brokers and policy holders.
- Reduced cost and effort of developing J2EE applications.
- 98% of brokers and policyholders use the reengineered applications.
- Application programs were modernized in less than one month and return on investment is expected in 13 months.
- Reduced time to process policies from 7 days to 7 minutes.
Customer Statement
“Now we are able to reuse business-critical functionality that has been developed over the years in Natural and Adabas. We’ve realized a significant benefit, as we have reduced the effort and cost required to develop our new J2EE applications because we are reusing, rather than cloning, existing functionality available on the mainframe.”
Mark Sinnott, Broker Project Manager
Hibernian General Insurance of Ireland
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