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Customer: Nationale-Nederlanden is the largest insurance company in The Netherlands. As a result of extensive acquisitions in the United States, Canada, and Australia, the company generates over half of its revenues from international business.
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Business Needs: The company needed to have its financial and accounting systems converted to the euro currency.
Technical Needs: The transformation had to include the typical conversions for handling of programs, screens, files, databases, and historical data. Additionally, it included creating extra data fields to ensure proper accounting control and information, and enabling the systems to maintain, per individual account, the national currency for a period of time as determined by the customer. At Nationale-Nederlanden, the systems run on two differing platforms (MVS and AS/400), using a variety of languages and databases are used. There are also in-house utilities, naming conventions, linkage methods, and user exits that make the programming environment quite unique.
Solution: The reliability of the BluePhoenix EuroEnabler solution was demonstrated to Nationale-Nederlanden management via a pilot project consisting of one application consisting of 500 COBOL IDMS and DB2 programs. As the next step, the BluePhoenix IT Discovery solution was used to perform a global assessment of all applications, including 8.3 million MVS lines of code and 2.3 million AS/400 lines of code. Finally, the systems were fully converted to meet the Euro standards. EuroEnabler was modified according to the specific requirements of Nationale-Nederlanden's programming environment, the applications converted in phases, and the project was an overall success.
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