The Key to the Future of Workload Automation at Baloise

The consolidation of decentralized IT units in an insurance group and the establishment of a corporate IT department posed new challenges for this IT department, particularly in the area of workload automation. The challenge was to organize the batch processing of several independent clients for the new corporate IT. Different national companies were to be served separately, while new applications and platforms had to be integrated into the existing landscape. When selecting a workload automation solution, it was crucial to ensure both multi-client capability and the automation of numerous old and new applications.

Arvato Systems, as a long-standing partner and supplier, was Baloise's first point of contact when it came to workload automation. With Streamworks, the right solution for the new requirements was quickly found. Thanks to its rapid adaptability, the solution offers Baloise security with regard to current and future requirements. Streamworks was able to directly demonstrate the appropriate flexibility when integrating into the Baloise system landscape with a new interface to the central operations tool ZIS from Leutek GmbH and with an import function for JCL from software change management under CA Endevor.

Today, the batch specialists at Baloise use the multi-client capability of Streamworks to separate their national companies and obtain a central overview of all clients in a single view with a single login - naturally within the framework of a sophisticated authorization concept. In addition to controlling the typical insurance core IT processes on a large number of different platforms and applications, Streamworks is also used for typical IT operating processes such as the creation of Oracle database backups.