German insurer switches automation Co

DARMSTADT, GERMANY: LVM Versicherungen, a nationwideinsurance group that is said to be among the top five auto insurers in Germany, will control its workflows using CA ESP Workload Automation from now on, shares a press release. It would be supporting the insurance company by introducing a business-oriented strategy for cross-platform workflow management.

The solution, will phase out BMC CONTROL-M, and explaining the switch-over Jurgen Falk, project manager at LVM Versicherungen said, “In contrast to BMC, CA ESP Workload Automation provides a browser-based graphical interface, which allows us to quickly and easily depict network processes, In addition, our job and network documentation, which previously needed to be maintained manually, will now be automatically updated, and graphical representations can be created at any time. This allows our project staff to access the latest information at any time with the touch of a button. With up to 48,000 daily jobs on all platforms--z/OS, UNIX, Linux and Windows--this represents a significant workload reduction."

He added that CA ESP Workload Automation also features a test environment with a functional simulation. “With job charts, job flows, and informative, including graphical, reports, errors that may occur when jobs and networks are being defined can quickly be recognized in advance within the test environment."

"While complexity is increasing, it is even more important to safely manage our IT processes. When data and transactions are being processed, there is no room for error," added Werner Schmidt, executive manager at LVM Versicherungen. "CA will help us to establish an integrated management system for our existing and new technologies."

Looks like there's a lot of homework laid down before and after the switch of vendors. Any thoughts on the decision made by LVM?