By Preventing a System Rewrite, Cincom Saves the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) a Five Person-year Effort
When Sean Curran accepted his new position at the BLS, his first goal was to upgrade all software to supported versions. An obvious place to start was with the three-decades-old Cincom® TOTAL® database management system (a DBMS that had served the BLS during seven White House administrations and countless shifts in employment trends).
Cincom’s consultant developed a plan that enabled the BLS to minimize the amount of changes in its operating environment. He also provided the training, mentoring and consulting that allowed the BLS to do the bulk of the work themselves.
BLS programmers proceeded with their conversions in a supported environment without worrying about the database. “We had this major change in the way we do business, and we changed thousands of programs,” Curran noted. “Just compiling it took days. But we didn’t have to rewrite it. It was worth five person-years of effort to us.”
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Desjardins Saves $10 Million with Cincom® VisualWorks® Upgrade
Desjardins General Insurance Group (DGIG) is one of the largest and most successful insurance companies in Canada. They have been using Cincom Smalltalk™ since 1998, so when their Claims Application needed an upgrade, they called Cincom Professional Services.
By relying on the service-process expertise of Cincom Professional Services, Desjardins was able to focus on the daily tasks of running their business for their customers. Not only did Desjardins amplify their ROI from the investment in their application suite and gain new functionality, they were able to make this change invisibly to their users.
According to Jacques Maltais, Desjardins Director of Development and Implementation for Claims and Enterprises, “By allowing us to keep our current claims application as opposed to purchasing or building a new one ourselves, Cincom saved us at least $10 million.”
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MTL Insurance Uses Cincom Services to Make a Good Choice Even Better
Founded in 1904, MTL Insurance Company is licensed in 46 states and the District of Columbia, with over 275 sales and service offices throughout the U.S. When MTL’s productivity was suffering from the need to produce documents five different ways, they selected Cincom’s Document Solutions to replace the three disparate document systems they were previously using.
And to ensure that the new system was implemented on time, they called on Cincom Professional Services for help with installation, implementation, training and mentoring. The result? MTL cut production time by 60% and boosted productivity by 200%.
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