AAA Life Insurance Drives Innovation by Integrating Mission-Critical IBM i Data into AWS Environment
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Precisely Connect
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- Amazon DMS
- Amazon PostgreSQL
Tech Stack
- IBM i
- AWS
- Change Data Capture (CDC)
- Data Integration
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
AAA Life Insurance is a prominent player in the insurance industry, known for its commitment to providing financial protection to its customers. With over 1.5 million active policies and more than 500 employees, the company generates over $500 million in annual revenue. AAA Life has been a trusted partner for decades, helping individuals and families secure their financial future. The company is dedicated to innovation and modernization, recognizing the importance of staying competitive in a rapidly evolving market. By integrating advanced analytics solutions and moving IT operations to the cloud, AAA Life aims to enhance its product offerings and improve the speed and flexibility of its services. The company's core insurance policy management system, Life Plus, operates on the IBM i platform, which, while powerful, presents challenges in data integration and cloud migration. To address these challenges, AAA Life embarked on a strategic IT modernization journey, partnering with AWS and Precisely to integrate its mission-critical data into a modern cloud environment.
The Challenge
AAA Life Insurance faced significant challenges in modernizing its IT infrastructure, primarily due to its reliance on IBM i systems for core processing. The company's core insurance policy management system, Life Plus, operated on the IBM i platform, which, despite its computational speed and reliability, posed difficulties in migrating data to modern cloud-based systems. The unique architecture of IBM i systems made data integration complex, hindering the company's ability to leverage advanced analytics and cloud solutions. To remain competitive and meet market expectations, AAA Life needed to develop a strategic IT modernization plan that would encompass its mission-critical LifePlus data, provide a practical pathway to the cloud, and support future business requirements.
The Solution
AAA Life Insurance partnered with AWS to embark on its cloud modernization journey, centering its solution on the Amazon Redshift data warehouse powered by scalable Amazon S3 repositories. This technology base allowed AAA Life to realize the speed, scale, and cost benefits of using AWS infrastructure, enabling the rollout of advanced analytics and reporting applications based on unified and accessible datasets. To address the challenge of integrating its LifePlus data, AAA Life collaborated with Precisely, an AWS and IBM partner known for its high-performance data integration solutions. Precisely Connect was implemented to efficiently and securely integrate IBM i data from the LifePlus system into the AWS environment in real-time and at scale. The solution involved using Change Data Capture (CDC) to land IBM i DB2 data in the Amazon PostgreSQL environment, from where Amazon DMS replicated the data to the Redshift environment. This seamless integration process allowed AAA Life to utilize its data for analytical and operational processes without requiring specialized IBM skills. The proven Precisely solution provided native support for leading streaming platforms, enabling real-time data pipelines that integrated data from multiple enterprise sources in a single workflow.
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