Case Study: Helvetia achieves sustained mainframe innovation and lower costs with Compuware solutions

Swiss Insurer Safeguards Mainframe Future with Compuware Solutions

Helvetia, a Swiss insurer with over $39 billion in assets and more than five million customers, depends on IBM mainframes for core underwriting, policy management and financial systems. Faced with a shrinking pool of experienced mainframe developers and relentless demand to deliver fast, reliable updates across web, desktop and mobile channels, Helvetia needed a way to empower fewer—and often less-experienced—developers to maintain and advance critical applications at scale.

Helvetia deployed a Compuware toolset (Topaz, Abend‑AID, Xpediter, File‑AID, Strobe and Hiperstation) to modernize development, debugging, data access, performance tuning and session monitoring, while leveraging Compuware’s mainframe and DevOps expertise. The result: faster, higher‑quality releases, lower operating and licensing costs, improved security and compliance, greater organizational agility and sustained competitive parity that mitigates long‑term mainframe talent risk.

Helvetia

Roberto Schmid

Director of IT Service Management