Case Study: Genworth achieves 74% reduction in monthly financial close and saves 100 man-days with Automic Automatic Workload Automation

Genworth Ensures System Visibility and Manageability with Automatic Workload Automation

Genworth, a division of Genworth Financial serving over 9 million customers across Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, faced a major IT challenge when it migrated insurance applications from an iSeries environment to Unix with an Oracle database. The move left the company relying on brittle shell scripts and manual DBA interventions to run a month‑end close composed of more than 1,300 tasks, creating limited visibility, high error risk and slow, resource‑intensive processes.

Genworth implemented Automic’s Automatic Workload Automation to centralize scheduling, add reusable design objects, automated alerting and pre‑flight checks, and capture process documentation. The solution delivered a 74% reduction in monthly close time, a projected 100 man‑days saved per year, a 50% optimization of the job flow (moving completion from Monday morning to early Saturday), improved visibility into long‑running steps, stronger compliance and reduced operational risk.

Genworth

Paul Ryan

IT Production Operations Manager