Case Study: MAIF achieves modernized 24/7 self-service and faster batch processing with OpenText Micro Focus Visual COBOL

Micro Focus Visual COBOL delivers superior user experience and value from existing application investment

MAIF, a major French mutual insurance company, faced the challenge of modernizing its mainframe-hosted business applications after its BULL mainframe reached end-of-life. The insurer needed to migrate to a more open, hybrid architecture to improve user experience and offer new web-based self-service capabilities to its policyholders while preserving its extensive and critical COBOL code base.

OpenText provided the solution with its Micro Focus Visual COBOL product, enabling MAIF to migrate its core business logic from the mainframe to a UNIX-based environment without a disruptive rewrite. This service-oriented approach, complemented by evoleen.byGecko’s COBOL Checkpoint Manager, allowed for simultaneous transaction and batch processing, securing 24/7 system availability. The results included a superior web experience for users and a measured improvement of up to 20% faster processing for large batch volumes, allowing OpenText to deliver new value from MAIF's existing application investment.

MAIF

Patrick Gueneau

IS Architect