Case Study: a life insurance company releases a new product line 11 months early with IBM DevOps solutions

Releasing a new product line 11 months early with an agile development methodology

A life insurance company faced the significant challenge of launching a new product line and web portal within an 18-month window to meet a new distribution agreement. To accelerate its development and meet this tight deadline, the company partnered with IBM to shift from a waterfall to an agile methodology, supported by IBM Rational software solutions.

IBM implemented a DevOps approach and software factory principles, enabling the client to transform its development process. This solution resulted in a 1,600 percent increase in productivity, allowing the company to release the new product line 11 months ahead of schedule. The project also generated an additional $2.8 million in monthly revenue and provided complete transparency across all development operations.