Wesfarmers Insurance companies include Lumley General Australia, Lumley General New Zealand and WFI, and together they form the fifth largest insurance company in Australasia. In order to maintain competitiveness, Wesfarmers Insurance migrated its core enterprise applications to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7 platform. This selection resulted in:
- Simplified development
- Protection of IT investments by service-enabling the company’s legacy applications, creating new services and extending business to the Web
- Increased workloads on fewer servers for proven linear scalability
- Reduced cost of management and downtime
- Prevention of security breaches