Case Study: Hong Kong Insurance Company achieves higher productivity and reduced maintenance costs with Cognizant's mainframe-to-distributed transformation

Hong Kong Insurer Transforms Mainframe Applications to a Distributed Solution

Hong Kong’s second-largest provider of retirement solutions, which manages 1.4 million policies covering 40% of the working population, relied on two decades‑old in‑house mainframe (Z/VSE) applications for distribution channel administration and pension plan management. The legacy systems had become nearly obsolete, constraining daily operations, slowing time to market and increasing operational risk and cost.

Cognizant re‑platformed the applications to a distributed, hybrid architecture using Micro Focus technologies — applying batch migration and optimization, data and infrastructure migration, online and report rewrites, and providing end‑to‑end program management, testing and training. The transformation cut transaction processing time, boosted automation, productivity and scalability, lowered maintenance costs and improved availability, user experience and capacity while minimizing downtime.