Krungthai Panich Insurance, business growth, IBM infrastructure, proprietary, core applications, technologies, underwriting, policy administration, claim management, accounting, IBM Power 520 servers, Power 550 servers, IBM AIX 6.1 operating system, IBM System x3650 servers, IBM System x3850 servers, IBM System Storage DS4800, data storage, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, security, performance, reliability, IBM System Storage SAN switches, recovery.
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Krungthai Panich Insurance improves business efficiences and supports business growth with a new IBM infrastructure
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Krungthai Panich Insurance improves business efficiencies and
supports business growth with a new IBM infrastructure
Overview Krungthai Panich Insurance is an insurance company in Thailand that
provides insurance packages for motor, fire and marine and has more
Krungthai Panich Insurance
Bangkok, Thailand than 500 employees.
Industry
âą Insurance
Challenge
The company leveraged proprietary core applications to support their mission-
Products
critical business processes. However, the core applications were developed
âą IBM Power 520
âą IBM Power 550 on and supported by outdated technologies and could no longer support the
âą IBM System x3650 companyâs growing infrastructure. Krungthai Panich Insuranceâs IT environment
âą IBM System x3850 consisted of Sun Microsystems Solaris and Dell servers, Sun Microsystems
âą IBM AIX storage devices, and Veritas backup software. The company needed to adopt a
âą IBM System Storage DS4800
new IT infrastructure and new core applications with Web capabilities to support
âą IBM System Storage SAN
switches business growth.
âą IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Solution
IBM Business Partner
âą 3i Infotech Krungthai Panich Insurance adopted the PREMIA insurance management
âą Metro Systems Corporation software suite to perform the companyâs primary business functions, including
underwriting and policy administration, claim management, and accounting. To
support these new insurance applications, they replaced their legacy Sun and
Dell IT infrastructure with a new IBM infrastructure.
â ithournewIBM
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The company implemented four IBM PowerÂź 520 servers and three Power
infrastructure,weâvebeen
550 servers running the IBM AIXÂź 6.1 operating system, as well as seven IBM
abletotakeadvantageof System x3650 servers and two IBM System x3850 servers running MicrosoftÂź
Web-facingcapabilitiesand WindowsÂź. An IBM System Storageâą DS4800 provides data storage, and
improvetheefficiencyand System Storage SAN switches connect the servers to the storage device. An
securityofourbusiness Oracle database stores and manages data related to the new PREMIA software,
processes.â while IBM TivoliÂź Storage Manager provides automated data storage and
âKrungthai Panich Insurance
recovery capabilities.
Benefits
âą Improves consumer satisfaction by enabling new Web-facing capabilities
âą Reduces backup times, increases security, and improves recovery capabilities
âą Delivers improved performance and reliability, and boosts internal process
efficiencies