Customer case studies
Sahara India Life Insurance
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A little about Sahara India Life Insurance.
Sahara India Life is the first private sector company in
the domestic Life Insurance sector to go solo without any
foreign partner. SILICL is promoted by Sahara India, a USD
7,000 million diversified conglomerate having varied
business interests in Public Deposit Mobilisation, Housing,
Aviation, Media & Entertainment and new forthcoming
projects like Consumer Products, Information Technology,
Hospitals and Agricultural products.
Sahara India is a unique business organisation that takes
pride in being not just a business enterprise but an
emotionally integrated family, the world's largest family of
over 600,000 members. Sahara India started 25 years
ago with a small savings venture having assets of just
USD 45 and only 3 members. Today, it is a major corporate
entity having an asset base of over USD 7,000 million
and 1707 establishments across the nation.
The company's growing pains.
Sahara India was launching their Insurance division. As an
Insurance company they had to have a ready and reliable back
up for their customer data.
All in all, Sahara required an integrated solution that would
provide them the following benefits:
1. Better manageability through server consolidation
2. Create redundancy to support criticality of their
applications
3. Flexibility to scale up servers as and when required
4. Low total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure.
The IBM solution.
Sahara India Insurance chose IBM as its partner to help with
its IT infrastructure. Computer Science Corporation's (CSC)
applications span a wide spectrum of IBM platforms,
including S/390, AS/400 (iSeries) and NetFinity, in addition to
using a broad variety of IBM middleware technologies.
Clients benefit from this alliance by virtue of CSC having early access to IBM's technologies and the subsequent ability
to leverage these unique technologies into insurance
applications by CSC.
It is no surprise that more than five of the top private life
Insurance companies in India like ICICI Prudential, Tata
AIG, ING Vysya, AMP Sanmar, IFFCO Tokio, etc. now run
on IBM eServer iSeries. This makes iSeries the most
preferred platform, in the Insurance Services Sector in
India.
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| Application |
CSC application for insurance |
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| O.S |
i5 |
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| Platform |
S/390, AS/400 (iSeries)
Netfinity (xSeries) |
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The result - Life made easy.
The benefits of server consolidation include - low total
cost of ownership, increased availability, better
manageability, enhanced scalability and freedom from
redundancy.
The robust and secure IT infrastructure deployed by IBM
enables Sahara to cut down the go-to-market time
substantially and offer new customised products that they
are planning to launch into their market soon.
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