The French National Health Insurance Agency, CNAM, saved $55 million per year in hardware and software spending by migrating 12,000 MIPS of legacy mainframe applications to less costly Unix servers
CNAM - French Health Insurance Agency
The French National Health Insurance Agency, CNAM, saved $55 million per year in hardware and software spending by migrating 12,000 MIPS of legacy mainframe applications to less costly Unix servers
"The modernization performed by MetaWare allows the CNAMTS to reduce significantly all costs lines of IT budget. Our costs savings are of 18 millions euros just for the hardware ones."
Maryvonne Crosnier, IT Manager CNAMTS
Project description
CNAM, the French Health Insurance Agency, handles 1.1 billion health care claims for 50 million beneficiaries and issues €110 billion in reimbursement payments per year. In 2002 the agency decided to move its legacy mainframe applications to Open Systems in order to achieve significant savings on infrastructure, transition to newer software development methods, and improve its ability to react rapidly to new regulations and government mandates.
Figures
CNAM’s legacy mainframe application portfolio consisted of 3,500 COBOL programs, 4,600 JCL jobs and 270 TB of data running on 10 IBM and Bull mainframes with a total capacity of 12,000 MIPS. Today the entire portfolio has been successfully migrated to 9 IBM System p UNIX servers with 32 CPUs each.
Solutions
- Comprehensive project to migrate from mainframe and consolidate data centers
- Migration of payments applications running under IBM CICS to IBM AIX
- IBM pSeries platform powered by Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Database and ACUCOBOL-GT
- 80,000 users, up to 3000 simultaneous connections
- Partners: IBM, Oracle, and Acucorp
Benefits
The migration benefits in rationalization existing applications in the new common environment, creating lower IT costs and increased system performance.
- Cost savings: $55 million a year.
- Reduction of daily batch window: 8 hours, allowing introduction of new Smartcard services on the same systems.
- Improved reliability and availability: load-balancing and fail-over capabilities across multiple data-centers.
- Business flexibility: thanks to component-based development in Java, facilitating IT skill evolution and a more flexible IT system.
