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	WaveMaker helps a Leading US Insurance Company transform their Ideas into Innovative Custom Apps Faster and at Lower Costs.

WaveMaker helps a Leading US Insurance Company transform their Ideas into Innovative Custom Apps Faster and at Lower Costs.

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Rapid Prototyping
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration Training
Challenge	A leading provider of personal, commercial property, casualty insurance, and long-term retirement savings products in the US faced challenges in managing their long-tail apps. They struggled to build apps independently of internal IT intervention, which required additional operating investments. The major challenges included high development and support costs imposed by IT for non-critical apps and the need to create a minimal IT dependency channel for infrastructure provisioning, support, data access, and app maintenance. The internal IT team wanted to focus on core business applications and spend minimal effort on maintaining long-tail apps. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a leading provider of personal, commercial property, casualty insurance, and long-term retirement savings products in the United States. Known as one of the largest and most successful insurance companies, they offer a wide range of insurance and financial products to individuals and businesses. The company has a significant market presence and a reputation for innovation and customer service. They are committed to leveraging technology to enhance their operations and deliver better services to their clients. The company faced challenges in managing their long-tail apps and sought a solution to build and maintain these apps more efficiently and cost-effectively. Read More
Solution	The insurance company adopted the WaveMaker platform to achieve significant operational effectiveness in creating and maintaining apps without additional investments in skilled resources. They formed a Productivity Application Team (PAT) to take over and maintain these applications across various departments. The team adopted the WaveMaker Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform to build apps supporting their sales process. PAT enabled citizen developers to develop apps and take over the maintenance of all infrastructure needs. They built common application infrastructure components to reuse across applications and distributed these components to other teams. This approach replaced IT as a control point for creating, provisioning, deploying, and running apps. The adoption of WaveMaker allowed the team to quickly transform ideas into apps, achieving greater operational effectiveness and sowing the seeds for an innovation infrastructure. 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

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Rapid Prototyping

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

A leading provider of personal, commercial property, casualty insurance, and long-term retirement savings products in the US faced challenges in managing their long-tail apps. They struggled to build apps independently of internal IT intervention, which required additional operating investments. The major challenges included high development and support costs imposed by IT for non-critical apps and the need to create a minimal IT dependency channel for infrastructure provisioning, support, data access, and app maintenance. The internal IT team wanted to focus on core business applications and spend minimal effort on maintaining long-tail apps.

About Customer

The customer is a leading provider of personal, commercial property, casualty insurance, and long-term retirement savings products in the United States. Known as one of the largest and most successful insurance companies, they offer a wide range of insurance and financial products to individuals and businesses. The company has a significant market presence and a reputation for innovation and customer service. They are committed to leveraging technology to enhance their operations and deliver better services to their clients. The company faced challenges in managing their long-tail apps and sought a solution to build and maintain these apps more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Solution

The insurance company adopted the WaveMaker platform to achieve significant operational effectiveness in creating and maintaining apps without additional investments in skilled resources. They formed a Productivity Application Team (PAT) to take over and maintain these applications across various departments. The team adopted the WaveMaker Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform to build apps supporting their sales process. PAT enabled citizen developers to develop apps and take over the maintenance of all infrastructure needs. They built common application infrastructure components to reuse across applications and distributed these components to other teams. This approach replaced IT as a control point for creating, provisioning, deploying, and running apps. The adoption of WaveMaker allowed the team to quickly transform ideas into apps, achieving greater operational effectiveness and sowing the seeds for an innovation infrastructure.

Impact #1	The team achieved significant operational effectiveness in creating and maintaining apps without additional investments in skilled resources.
Impact #2	Citizen Developers were enabled to develop applications with simple drag-and-drop widgets, reusable connectors, and integrations with various enterprise systems, including Oracle database, Siebel, and LDAP.
Impact #3	PAT expanded their skills to use out-of-the-box widgets and prefabs, greatly reducing time and costs.

Impact #1

The team achieved significant operational effectiveness in creating and maintaining apps without additional investments in skilled resources.

Impact #2

Citizen Developers were enabled to develop applications with simple drag-and-drop widgets, reusable connectors, and integrations with various enterprise systems, including Oracle database, Siebel, and LDAP.

Impact #3

PAT expanded their skills to use out-of-the-box widgets and prefabs, greatly reducing time and costs.

Benefit #1	Created 30+ apps using WaveMaker.

Benefit #1

Created 30+ apps using WaveMaker.

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Overview

WaveMaker helps a Leading US Insurance Company transform their Ideas into Innovative Custom Apps Faster and at Lower Costs.

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