Case Study: American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) achieves reduced storage, improved performance and comprehensive auditing with Precisely's Assure iOptimize

American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) - Customer Case Study

American Life Insurance Company (ALICO), headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, needed a way to monitor and manage its global IBM i environment from its central IT development shop. The Wilmington team struggled with time-consuming, repetitive queries to assess resource and disk usage, difficulty cataloging differing application versions across offices, and a need for comprehensive health monitoring. To address this, ALICO worked with Precisely and deployed Assure iOptimize.

Precisely’s Assure iOptimize automated System i administration and provided hour-by-hour historical performance reporting, disk-usage and spool analysis, customizable Health Reports, and background “housecleaning” on ALICO’s IBM i systems. As a result, ALICO reduced disk storage and spool-file usage, improved performance (allowing deferred server upgrades), gained granular auditing and troubleshooting capabilities, and more accurately cataloged application versions across offices — delivering measurable operational and security improvements.

American Life Insurance Company (ALICO)

Larry Ketzes

Director, Midrange Engineering