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Leading European insurer assures GDPR compliance with BMC on IBM Z®

  

A leading European insurer leverages BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) running on IBM Z® to maintain and expand its critical business systems.

The Challenge

The European insurer prioritizes customer proximity with flexible sales channels, 24-hour emergency services, and legal assistance, which heavily burdens its infrastructure. Featuring IBM Z, the infrastructure includes 58 million CICS transactions and seven billion SQL requests, managing 290 TB of total system data. To combat the burden while generating new revenue, the company needed to grow its software development team to innovate customer-facing apps while ensuring compliance with European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). 

Previously, cloning took weeks, hindering productivity for the company’s 400 developers and causing CPU overloads that affected customer experience. The insurer noted that a more dynamic development environment required faster, more frequent cloning of production data. 

The Solution

IBM Z was central to the insurer’s ability to manage its massive data processing needs and meet growing demands for agility. With IBM Z, the company was able to maximize scalability and performance, compliance and security, as well as reliability and agility. Running BMC AMI Recovery for Db2® on IBM Z allowed the insurer to automate data resilience, ensuring full recoverability and maintaining an uninterrupted customer experience. BMC AMI Recovery for Db2® assured achievement of recovery time objectives and reversed potentially damaging changes to operational data, ensuring compliance with GDPR requirements for recovery timeliness. 

The Results

Leveraging BMC AMI Recovery for Db2® running on IBM Z, the insurer’s yielded:

  •        96% reduction in data delivery time through cloning
  •        10% increase in developer productivity of 400 developers
  • 48-hour recovery time objective (RTO) met and exceeded

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BMC is a global technology software company and BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) solutions help organizations simplify their IBM Z transformations, making experienced employees even more productive and easing the transition to the next generation of talent with generative AI and cloud-native experiences.