Many company executives dislike and distrust IT Departments for a number of reasons:
the associated expenses
don't understand technology
difficulty in finding     affordable quality people
timeline of project completion

The answer, turn your IT Department from an expense center into a profit center. Most IT Departments contain intellectual property used to run the business and maintain the competitve edge. The rights to assets such as customized software, unique procedures, etc. can be sold to other non-competitive companies for huge profits.

Let Sebring show you how to PROFITize your IT Department.


Business Drivers

Statewide Insurance needed to upgrade its AS400 Mainframe System.
Statewide Insurance, a provider of insurance products for Oklahoma residents and business, required a significant technology refresh without disrupting the production environment. The company was running an AS400 Mainframe System with twenty-five to thirty local PC’s and 3270 Type Terminals. Statewide was experiencing problems with system stability, performance, daily outages, limited disk space and software issues.

In addition, the month-end close procedure took approximately thirty hours to run which restricted system use.

IT Environment and Challenges

Statewide Insurance selects Sebring as it’s single source IT solution.
The Strategic IT MaximizerTM Analysis indicated that Statewide did not have the internal expertise to perform the upgrade. Statewide engaged Sebring through an outsourcing agreement. The upgrade would include enhancement of the current IT staff including the replacement of an AS400 Contractor and a System Administrator with two AS400/RPG Programmers, cleaning up the software, stabilizing and balancing the systems.

Solutions

Sebring Systems successfully upgraded Statewide’s IT environment.
The project was completed by Sebring in the following phases:

  • Provided an IBM AS400 Business Partner to upgrade the AS400
  • Installed a front-end NT/SQL Server
  • Replaced most terminals with new PC’s
  • Upgraded the network
  • Created a web-site, including setup of e-mail and internet access
  • Rewrote all the agent rating disks in Visual Basic

Business Results

The upgraded environment uncovered commissions still being paid for discontinued policies.
Benefits of the upgrade include:

  • $9,000 annual vendor software maintenance savings
  • $6,000 annual Internet connection savings
  • Improved handling of customer refunds, cancellations, and agent commissions, approximate $200,000 per year savings
  • Reduction of hardware and network costs
  • Improved user performance by reducing outages, reducing month-end processing
    time and increasing user uptime.
  • Reduced month-end close procedure to a 1-1/2 hour process
  • Paved way for 200% growth over the most recent 3 years
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