Case Study: Cattolica Assicurazioni achieves 75% cost savings and faster product launches with OpenText

Micro Focus supports application modernization to improve productivity and collaboration, and respond to changing business requirements.

Cattolica Assicurazioni is one of Italy’s largest insurers (about €7 billion in premiums and 3.6 million clients in 2019) whose core policy system, LIFE, dated from the 1970s. Growing mainframe MIPS costs, worsening batch performance (processes taking 12+ hours), lack of internet readiness, and slow product launches (up to six months) made it imperative to modernize and reduce operational expense.

Cattolica re-hosted LIFE using Micro Focus Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server on an Intel Linux distributed platform, preserving VSAM data and emulating CICS/JES2 to minimize risk. The unified solution delivered real-time transaction visibility, cut batch times to under 20 minutes, reduced time-to-market to two months, achieved 75% operational cost savings, and realized full ROI within a year.

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