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	Accelerating Enterprise Applications for Major Life Insurance Provider

Accelerating Enterprise Applications for Major Life Insurance Provider

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	To meet the requirements for simultaneous information sharing within the organization, SK Life deployed six Web application servers for its internal applications and storage. Initially, the applications ran at 5 Mbps, but after the integrated investment insurance policies took place, the need increased to 30 Mbps. Increased internal application traffic caused network latency whereby employees had to wait to get online and collect client and program information, and as a result business opportunities were lost. Upon research, SK Life learned that network congestion could be resolved with an advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC), and contacted A10 Networks to evaluate its award-winning ADCs. Upon deploying the A10 ADC, SK Life immediately realized the benefits and made the purchase. Read More
About Customer	Founded in 1963, SK Life is the second largest insurance provider in Taiwan, with 20,000 employees. With nearly 50 years in business, SK Life’s business processes have undergone dramatic changes with the evolution of Information Technology (IT). In the early stages of its business, the focus was on customer acquisition and retention and return on investment. In addition, today’s business challenges include a government open insurance policy and various insurance package options, delivering multiple layers of complexity and creating a need for simultaneous data exchanges so that employees can quickly and effectively service clients. Read More
Solution	SK Life deployed the A10 ADC in a High Availability (HA), or dual system, pair for redundancy, with a two tier server load balancing solution. The first tier is an HTTP load balancing service for the employees to access the Web application servers. The second tier is a database server load balancing service from the Web application servers to the database servers. For both tiers, the A10 ADC delivers full Layer 4-7 application delivery services to ensure that the internal Web applications are always available and reliable with high-performance, especially during peak usage conditions. The A10 ADC provides the industry’s state-of-the art new generation architecture that consistently outperforms the competition, ultimately providing a faster and better experience to the end user. Advanced ADC features including Web caching (static and dynamic), compression, SSL offload, connection re-use and other application acceleration features are included without additional licensing fees, guaranteeing performance on demand, when needed, without further expenditure. The A10 ADCs’ HA sub-second failover ensures maximum uptime for a seamless end user experience. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

To meet the requirements for simultaneous information sharing within the organization, SK Life deployed six Web application servers for its internal applications and storage. Initially, the applications ran at 5 Mbps, but after the integrated investment insurance policies took place, the need increased to 30 Mbps. Increased internal application traffic caused network latency whereby employees had to wait to get online and collect client and program information, and as a result business opportunities were lost. Upon research, SK Life learned that network congestion could be resolved with an advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC), and contacted A10 Networks to evaluate its award-winning ADCs. Upon deploying the A10 ADC, SK Life immediately realized the benefits and made the purchase.

About Customer

Founded in 1963, SK Life is the second largest insurance provider in Taiwan, with 20,000 employees. With nearly 50 years in business, SK Life’s business processes have undergone dramatic changes with the evolution of Information Technology (IT). In the early stages of its business, the focus was on customer acquisition and retention and return on investment. In addition, today’s business challenges include a government open insurance policy and various insurance package options, delivering multiple layers of complexity and creating a need for simultaneous data exchanges so that employees can quickly and effectively service clients.

Solution

SK Life deployed the A10 ADC in a High Availability (HA), or dual system, pair for redundancy, with a two tier server load balancing solution. The first tier is an HTTP load balancing service for the employees to access the Web application servers. The second tier is a database server load balancing service from the Web application servers to the database servers. For both tiers, the A10 ADC delivers full Layer 4-7 application delivery services to ensure that the internal Web applications are always available and reliable with high-performance, especially during peak usage conditions. The A10 ADC provides the industry’s state-of-the art new generation architecture that consistently outperforms the competition, ultimately providing a faster and better experience to the end user. Advanced ADC features including Web caching (static and dynamic), compression, SSL offload, connection re-use and other application acceleration features are included without additional licensing fees, guaranteeing performance on demand, when needed, without further expenditure. The A10 ADCs’ HA sub-second failover ensures maximum uptime for a seamless end user experience.

Impact #1	Upon deployment, the A10 ADC manages SK Life’s application traffic so that there is no longer network congestion or latency.
Impact #2	Employees do not have to wait to access the online applications for client and program information, which allows them to close more business than before the A10 ADC solution was installed.
Impact #3	With the A10 ADC, SK Life adapted to changing business requirements, gained a competitive edge and increased its fiscal success.

Impact #1

Upon deployment, the A10 ADC manages SK Life’s application traffic so that there is no longer network congestion or latency.

Impact #2

Employees do not have to wait to access the online applications for client and program information, which allows them to close more business than before the A10 ADC solution was installed.

Impact #3

With the A10 ADC, SK Life adapted to changing business requirements, gained a competitive edge and increased its fiscal success.

Benefit #1	Initially, the applications ran at 5 Mbps, but after the integrated investment insurance policies took place, the need increased to 30 Mbps.

Benefit #1

Initially, the applications ran at 5 Mbps, but after the integrated investment insurance policies took place, the need increased to 30 Mbps.

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