The company in this case study is a leading US-based insurance company and has been in business since the early 1900s. They have evolved from a life insurance company to a full service insurance and financial services provider. The company provides group dental, life, disability, accidental death, and dismemberment policies, as well as annuities and retirement plans. The focus of this case study is a 401K management system that is used by Fortune 1000 companies to provide retirement plans to their employees. This system performs most processing in nightly batch cycles.
Like most established, successful, and long-standing companies, this company has attempted to modernize portions of their IT application portfolio for over 20 years. The focus of many of these efforts has been to move the applications totally off the mainframe using both a re-host or re-architecture approach. The re-host and re-architecture approaches are described in detail...