National Farmers Union Insurance saves time and money with Uniface

With a dispersed network of independent agents using their own choice of hardware and software, Colorado-based National Farmers Union Insurance needed an efficient way to ensure they could access core applications and upload customer data. It embarked on a programme of legacy application modernisation, using Uniface to rewrite client/server applications for a Web environment, making them available in a browser window for fast, easy access and direct data input. Choosing to have the new applications hosted on a software-as-a-service model has saved the company money, while processing of customer data and processes has been greatly speeded up.

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As a major provider of IT services to public and private sector organisations, LogicaCMG’s Dutch operation knows its reputation rests on the quality of the work it delivers. To increase the speed and success of its application development projects, the company looked for a tool to help it capture clients’ business requirements more effectively. A trial of Compuware Optimal Trace revealed that the tool was ideal for its needs, providing a highly flexible environment for capturing and managing business requirements throughout a development project, and enabling LogicaCMG to respond closely to its clients’ needs and to increase the speed and efficiency of the development process.

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While many development tool vendors are talking about software factories and domain-specific languages as the software development paradigm of the future, Compuware customers can benefit from these new methods today. Our new White Paper explains how OptimalJ Architecture Edition lets you create a customised DSL and Software Factory. It shows how IT services provider SciSys and its client the UK Environment Agency have used these new methods to speed up development efforts and spare vital IT resources by introducing a sustainable and repeatable approach to application development.

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