HPE Accelerates AG Digital Transformation and Business Outcomes with Cloud-Ready and Data-Driven Solution
October 11 2022 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
AG Belgium life and non-life insurer selects HPE to support its
move toward becoming a data-driven organization to accelerate
business outcomes, acquire new talents and reduce TCO.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that
leading Belgium insurance provider AG has selected HPE to design,
develop, implement and migrate all of AG’s applications onto a more
cost-efficient and flexible open systems solution to replace its
historical and aging mainframe. The new standardized
infrastructure, built on HPE Synergy and HPE Primera, combined with
HPE’s application migration services allowed AG to maintain high
level performances, reduce operating cost by 75% and increase
agility to support emerging API-based developments.
AG is the largest Belgian insurance company that insures about
three million policy holders, individuals, companies and
self-employed persons. The insurance industry relies heavily on
back-end infrastructure and critical data to ensure the offered
services are resilient, highly available and always on. Latency and
downtime on insurance transactions have an immediate impact on the
customer experience.
Until recently, AG operated on mainframe technology. This large
central computer was used by applications requiring high volumes of
data processing and critical availability at the cost of less
flexibility and expensive maintenance from specially qualified
profiles. AG needed a flexible and efficient solution to support
its digital transformation into a better-optimized, automated and
data-driven insurance.
“Working with HPE has enabled us to move away from a traditional
centralized IT to a modern de-centralized and cloud-ready
architecture for a fraction of the cost,” said Philippe Van Belle,
Chief Information & Technology Officer at AG. “We feel
confident that this modern solution will help attract new talent
and put AG in a more competitive position in the long term to
develop competitive, data-driven and API-based solutions while
reducing time to market.”
More than 25 employees from HPE Advisory & Professional
Services together with AG and their partners MicroFocus, the
technology provider and Capgemini, the test services provider,
worked together for three years to deliver the seamless migration
of customized insurance applications that cover life, health, auto
and homeowners spread across more than 80 million lines of code and
100 TB of data running on Cobol1 programming language.
“I am thrilled to know the HPE solution will allow AG to achieve
significant cost savings and power platform modernization,” said
Stephane Lahaye, Managing Director, HPE Belgium. “Moving from a
mainframe-centric to a cloud-ready decentralized approach is a leap
that will unleash AG flexibility while accelerating digital
transformation.”
About AG
With a share (end 2021) of 29,5% in the Life insurance market
and 16.7% in Non-life, AG is the undisputed leader in the Belgian
insurance market. To better tailor its offer to fulfil different
customer needs, AG has a multi-channel distribution strategy that
includes independent brokers and Fintro agents, bank branches (BNP
Paribas Fortis, bpost bank) and collaboration with large corporate
clients and sectors for their group insurance. AG employs over
4,000 specialised staff members. More information on www.ag.be
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Workload Migration, Compute, High Performance Computing
& AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a
consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping
customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and
increase operational performance. For more information, visit:
www.hpe.com
1 COBOL (common business-oriented language) is a compiled
English-like computer programming language designed for business
use in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming
language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
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