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Topaz is Key for Insurance Company to Manage Complex Mainframe Code

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Maintenance
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Predictive Maintenance
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Physicians Mutual, an insurance company, was struggling with the management of millions of lines of complex mainframe code. The lack of documentation and tools to manage this code led to long development cycles, preventing the company from capitalizing on critical business opportunities. The complexity of the mainframe code and the absence of tools to manage it resulted in missed opportunities to capitalize on immediate business interests. The company needed a solution that would help them understand and manage their complex applications, speed up maintenance and development cycles, and attract and retain top developer talent. Read More
About Customer	Physicians Mutual Insurance Company and Physicians Life Insurance Company are members of the Physicians Mutual family. Physicians Mutual Insurance Company offers reliable Medicare Supplement, dental and supplemental health insurance. Physicians Life Insurance Company provides important life insurance coverage and annuities. The company has a significant investment in mainframe systems that support the business. The application code comprises millions of lines of code that must be maintained, modified and flexible enough to support the changing needs of the business. Read More
Solution	Physicians Mutual turned to Compuware's Topaz, a modern code editing IDE that provides feedback and guidance to shorten cycles. Topaz Workbench with Program Analysis and Enterprise Data was deployed to provide a GUI integrated development environment with program structure charts. Topaz Runtime Visualizer was also deployed to provide understanding and documentation of program execution, identification of dead code, and cross-platform data visualization and data management capability. Topaz Workbench provides a host-to-host data movement capability that empowers the Physicians Mutual developers to quickly handle data management tasks that used to take much longer. The solution also included Topaz for Program Analysis and Topaz for Enterprise Data, which allowed developers and other IT personnel to work with data on both mainframe and distributed systems in a unified editor. 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

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Maintenance

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Physicians Mutual, an insurance company, was struggling with the management of millions of lines of complex mainframe code. The lack of documentation and tools to manage this code led to long development cycles, preventing the company from capitalizing on critical business opportunities. The complexity of the mainframe code and the absence of tools to manage it resulted in missed opportunities to capitalize on immediate business interests. The company needed a solution that would help them understand and manage their complex applications, speed up maintenance and development cycles, and attract and retain top developer talent.

About Customer

Physicians Mutual Insurance Company and Physicians Life Insurance Company are members of the Physicians Mutual family. Physicians Mutual Insurance Company offers reliable Medicare Supplement, dental and supplemental health insurance. Physicians Life Insurance Company provides important life insurance coverage and annuities. The company has a significant investment in mainframe systems that support the business. The application code comprises millions of lines of code that must be maintained, modified and flexible enough to support the changing needs of the business.

Solution

Physicians Mutual turned to Compuware's Topaz, a modern code editing IDE that provides feedback and guidance to shorten cycles. Topaz Workbench with Program Analysis and Enterprise Data was deployed to provide a GUI integrated development environment with program structure charts. Topaz Runtime Visualizer was also deployed to provide understanding and documentation of program execution, identification of dead code, and cross-platform data visualization and data management capability. Topaz Workbench provides a host-to-host data movement capability that empowers the Physicians Mutual developers to quickly handle data management tasks that used to take much longer. The solution also included Topaz for Program Analysis and Topaz for Enterprise Data, which allowed developers and other IT personnel to work with data on both mainframe and distributed systems in a unified editor.

Impact #1	Faster code analysis for determining code changes, impacts and requirements for resolving production events, speeding up maintenance and development cycles.
Impact #2	Cross-platform IDE increases productivity of experienced developers and minimizes learning curve of less experienced developers.
Impact #3	Identify problems earlier in the development lifecycle and before compiling to ease understanding and management of complex applications.

Impact #1

Faster code analysis for determining code changes, impacts and requirements for resolving production events, speeding up maintenance and development cycles.

Impact #2

Cross-platform IDE increases productivity of experienced developers and minimizes learning curve of less experienced developers.

Impact #3

Identify problems earlier in the development lifecycle and before compiling to ease understanding and management of complex applications.

Benefit #1	Significant reduction in development cycles.
Benefit #2	Increased productivity of developers.
Benefit #3	Reduced learning curve for less experienced developers.

Benefit #1

Significant reduction in development cycles.

Benefit #2

Increased productivity of developers.

Benefit #3

Reduced learning curve for less experienced developers.

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Topaz is Key for Insurance Company to Manage Complex Mainframe Code

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