Development of an innovative platform to replace the IBM ASF application.
The developed platform enables Baloise in Germany to decommission the host system and allows for the use of identical functionality on the web.
- Service
- Development
- Years
- >03
- Developers
- 03
- Person-days
- >600
About Baloise
As an insurer, Baloise places a strong emphasis on digital innovation and continuously modernizes its products and services to meet customer needs. The goal is to be a reliable partner for all customers of Baloise through innovative insurance solutions and customer-oriented services.
The Tech Stack
Das Projekt
Challenge
The challenge was to implement functionalities that were no longer available after the replacement of the IBM ASF application, as well as to integrate the legacy system with the new M/Text printing system. A significant challenge in implementing the "Document Portal" was to create a performant, maintainable, and extensible Java code from PL1 code.
Solution
Through intensive and regular communication with Baloise's specialist department and the responsible parties of third-party systems, all necessary information was gathered and documented in several thousand tickets. This comprehensive collection included the transfer of old logic structures from the legacy system to the world of web applications to address the challenges of the replacement.
The employees at bitside supported us in various ways during the replacement of our old ASF text system. In addition to the technical design and implementation of a new document portal, we also employed the bitside colleagues in text conversion and test coordination tasks. Besides their technical expertise, their flexibility, quick availability, and straightforward support in finding other technical solutions are particularly noteworthy. In summary: We were a good team, and we greatly appreciated the collaboration with bitside.
Impact
The resulting new modern web application stands out with a user-friendly design and easy handling of a complex process. The desired test coverage of the web application was achieved, and a powerful batch process enables the parallel processing of high volumes of document creation.
- Replacement of IBM ASF.
- The introduction of the new platform enables the shutdown of a central host system, thereby saving significant maintenance and licensing costs.
- Introduction of a web application.
- Employees receive a web application instead of a command line to trigger new documents easily and quickly.
- Simplified batch process.
- The entire nightly batch process was simplified from many different process chains to a single central process without losing key functionalities.
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