Case Study: uniVersa Versicherungen achieves rapid product launches and high-performance, reliable insurance IT with Software AG

Implementing Innovative Insurance Concepts Quickly and Reliably

uniVersa Versicherungen, a Nuremberg-based insurance company, faced growing deregulation and rising customer expectations that demanded faster, more flexible product development across health, life and accident lines. The immediate challenge was whether its legacy IT could support rapid rollouts—most notably delivering the complex Tip‑Top Tabaluga children’s plan with under two months to build the required inventory systems.

uniVersa modernized on Software AG’s Adabas and Natural with webMethods EntireX for integration and followed the VAA architecture for reusable components. The result was a stable, high-performance platform—about 200 million transactions per day, <0.5s response for 90% of online queries, and years without Adabas failure—and dramatically faster time‑to‑market (new products in 10–100 person‑days and the Tabaluga program delivered on schedule).

Universa Versicherungen

Werner Pfnür

Application Development Manager, Inventory Systems