Case Study: SpareBank1 achieves rapid IBM i development cycles and a 70% reduction in environment and compliance costs with ARCAD Software

SpareBank1 drives rapid development cycles on the IBM i whilst improving software quality, reducing costs of environment management and compliance by 70%

SpareBank1, a leading Norwegian financial services provider, depends on NICE, its core insurance application running on IBM i, to support sales, claims and policy administration. As the insurance business demanded more frequent releases, the NICE team’s in‑house change and release tooling became a bottleneck—lacking robust impact analysis, release governance, parallel development support and integration with the wider dev ecosystem—so SpareBank1 selected ARCAD Software’s DevOps toolchain to modernize IBM i delivery.

ARCAD Software implemented a metadata‑driven DevOps platform that provides a synchronized knowledge base, graphical impact analysis, concurrent-branch management, optimized build/test flows, automated deployments with roll‑back and integrated compliance reporting, while reusing existing IBM i deployment assets. The outcome was a 70% reduction in environment management costs, elimination of downtime from faulty deliveries, faster merge/build/test cycles, improved software quality and compliance, and readiness to integrate GitHub for further DevOps expansion.

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Nina Zahedi Meier

Team Leader Application Development