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Modernization – Real Life Scenario:
How WoodmenLife Is Doing It
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WoodmenLife – Who We Are
• WoodmenLife is a different kind of life insurance company:
not for profit.
• Founded in 1890
• $10.44 billion in assets*
• $1.12 billion surplus ($112 assets / $100 liability)*
• $37.2 billion life insurance in force*
• More than 700,000 members across the nation*
• A+ (Superior) Financial Strength Rating from A.M. Best*
• Gives back on a local level through chapters that help lead
community service projects.
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Challenges and Objectives
• Legacy CICS applications, VSAM and DB2 data
• Continual addition of new systems
• Modern users / modern interfaces
• Architectural complexity increasing, always changing
• Integration complexity increasing, always changing
• Transition to enterprise service architecture
• Decompose/recompose policy admin system (PAS) and
others
• Seven-plus years
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Core Architecture: June 2012
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Initial CICS Integration methods
• Screen Scraping
• Direct reads to DB2
• CICS Web Services
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Core Architecture: August 2013
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HostBridge: Integration Architecture
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PAS Decomposition: March 2014
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PAS Decomposition: 6-18 Months
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PAS Decomposition: Ongoing
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Thank You!
Questions?
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