Case Study: IPECA achieves 75% project cost reduction and IBM i modernization with ARCAD Software

Using ARCAD, IPECA transforms their IBM i source code & database and moves to DevOps, reducing project cost by 75%

Ipeca, a French non-profit pension organization serving the aerospace sector, faced a complex modernization challenge: a large, customized IBM i (RPG) application with an undersized Customer-ID field, fragile source-code integrity, limited dependency visibility, and no effective version control or automated deployment. To address these risks and move toward DevOps, Ipeca selected ARCAD Software and its suite of solutions (including ARCAD-Observer, ARCAD-Transformer Field, ARCAD-Verifier and ARCAD-Transformer RPG/DB) to provide analysis, automated field expansion, regression testing, and modernization tools.

ARCAD Software implemented a phased solution—introducing DevOps/version control and secure deployments, graphical application analysis, automated Customer-ID expansion, test automation, and conversion of RPG and DDS to free-form RPG and SQL DDL—delivering dramatic results: transformation project costs fell by 75%, an 800 man-day project was reduced to 200 days with a single developer, production rollout revealed only one defect which was rapidly fixed, and overall deployment reliability and estimate accuracy greatly improved.

Ipeca

Laure Lapeyre

IT Manager