Published on 20-Feb-2012
Customer:
Česká Pojištovna
Industry:
Insurance
Deployment country:
Czech Republic
Solution:
Solutions for Smart Business, Automation, Business Continuity, Business Service Management , Consolidated Operations Management , Enterprise Resource Planning, Express, Industry Framework , RSI solution, Service Management
Smarter Planet:
Smarter Insurance
IBM Business Partner:
GC System a.s.
Overview
Headquartered in Prague, Ceska Pojistovna provides various life insurance and other insurance products for individuals and businesses of all sizes. Since the reintroduction of the Czech Republic’s competitive marketplace in 1991, the company has grown into the largest insurance provider in the country, with a 30 percent share of all premiums. Ceska Pojistovna employs 4,900 people and works with 65,000 agents across 70 branches.
Business need:
For Ceska Pojistovna, the IT environment serves as the foundation for every core business function, from claims processing to human resources. But the company’s foundation had cracks. After years of growth, it found itself with a disjointed environment that threatened to disrupt business operations. It needed a comprehensive IT service management solution to avoid downtime and performance lags.
Solution:
Ceska Pojistovna centralized monitoring and management across the IT environment, cutting through the complexity to gain real-time visibility into resource performance and usage. Automated root cause analysis, problem resolution and alarm deduplication keep system failures to a minimum. And with analysis of historical performance trends, the company can predict fluctuations in resource requirements and perform more accurate capacity planning, avoiding costly system failures.
Benefits:
· Reduced maintenance costs by USD200,000 by consolidating the environment onto a standard software platform
· Saved USD25,000 annually in human resources costs by increasing the efficiency and productivity of the IT department
· Cut overall IT costs while improving service levels and reducing workload
Case Study
Headquartered in Prague, Ceska Pojistovna provides various life insurance and other insurance products for individuals and businesses of all sizes. Since the reintroduction of the Czech Republic’s competitive marketplace in 1991, the company has grown into the largest insurance provider in the country, with a 30 percent share of all premiums. Ceska Pojistovna employs 4,900 people and works with 65,000 agents across 70 branches.
The Opportunity
For Ceska Pojistovna, the IT environment serves as the foundation for every core business function, from claims processing to human resources. But the company’s foundation had cracks. After years of growth, it found itself with a disjointed environment that threatened to disrupt business operations. It needed a comprehensive IT service management solution to avoid downtime and performance lags.
What Makes It Smarter
Ceska Pojistovna centralized monitoring and management across the IT environment, cutting through the complexity to gain real-time visibility into resource performance and usage. Automated root cause analysis, problem resolution and alarm deduplication keep system failures to a minimum. And with analysis of historical performance trends, the company can predict fluctuations in resource requirements and perform more accurate capacity planning, avoiding costly system failures. For the business, this preventive approach to IT outages helps ensure that everything from financial reporting to claims processing is up and running 24/7, minimizing impact on productivity, revenue and profitability.
Real Business Results
· Reduced maintenance costs by USD200,000 by consolidating the environment onto a standard software platform
· Saved USD25,000 annually in human resources costs by increasing the efficiency and productivity of the IT department
· Cut overall IT costs while improving service levels and reducing workload
For more information
Please contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner.
Visit us at: ibm.com/insurance
To learn more about Ceska Pojistovna visit: www.ceskapojistovna.cz/en
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Hardware:
Power 550 Express, Power Systems running AIX 6
Software:
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Internet Service Monitoring, Tivoli Common Reporting, Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, Tivoli Netcool/Impact, Tivoli Business Service Manager, Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Applications, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments
Service:
Software Services for Tivoli
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