Case Study: The Professional Provident Society (PPS) achieves faster time to market and greater agility with IBM

Bringing unprecedented flexibility to the South African insurance market

The Professional Provident Society (PPS), a South African specialty insurer serving graduate professionals, faced rising competition and slow product development due to complex legacy systems. Working with IBM and IBM MQ, PPS needed a faster, more flexible way to bring new insurance offerings to market.

IBM helped PPS replace its old architecture with a service-oriented, end-to-end platform built on IBM MQ and related IBM technologies. The result was dramatic: PPS cut application development costs by 50%, reduced audit findings by 80%, eliminated 90% of system code, and launched nine new products in less than a year.

The Professional Provident Society

David Gnodde

Chief Operating Officer