Seguros Monterrey New York Life

Seguros Monterrey. One of the most important insurance company in Mexico, offering their services supported by two Cyber 960 machines, with NOS and NOS/VE operating systems.

Problematic.
Although the mainframe services provided met the company goals; Control Data notices of End Of Services in Mexico pointed to the selection of another operations platform.

Situation.
Cobol programs, interactive applications managed with built-in screens, several utilities for supporting administration, support and maintenance, two different operating systems (Dual State), remote services and automated file transfering.

Solution.
The solution offered to Seguros Monterrey aimed to native migration of their applications without alteration of functionality in the conversion to Open Systems: We converted cobol programs to Cobol Microfocus and encouraging the acquisition of an HP9000 equipment model V Class.

Benefits.
The obtained benefits for Seguros Monterrey were convincing showed: Business Continuity, Economy, Services, Technology:

a) Business Continuity. We defeat the ghost of specialized services and technical support only offered by provider, Control Data Corporation.

b) Economy. We reduce a lot the costs related to Hardware and Software maintenance with a return of investment of 18 months. With this results we help our client to invest in high technology.

c) Services. We improved the response time for the Online End Users. The enhancements on elapsed time for batch processes was from 24 hours through 4 hours.

d) Technologic benefit. The new platform permit us incorporate added benefits to the migration, such as: developments focused on data base and Web.