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1. Case study QuickView
Krungthai Panich Insurance improves business efficiencies and
supports business growth with a new IBM infrastructure
Overview Krungthai Panich Insurance is an insurance company in Thailand that
provides insurance packages for motor, fire and marine and has more
Krungthai Panich Insurance
Bangkok, Thailand than 500 employees.
Industry
• Insurance
Challenge
The company leveraged proprietary core applications to support their mission-
Products
critical business processes. However, the core applications were developed
• IBM Power 520
• IBM Power 550 on and supported by outdated technologies and could no longer support the
• IBM System x3650 company’s growing infrastructure. Krungthai Panich Insurance’s IT environment
• IBM System x3850 consisted of Sun Microsystems Solaris and Dell servers, Sun Microsystems
• IBM AIX storage devices, and Veritas backup software. The company needed to adopt a
• IBM System Storage DS4800
new IT infrastructure and new core applications with Web capabilities to support
• IBM System Storage SAN
switches business growth.
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Solution
IBM Business Partner
• 3i Infotech Krungthai Panich Insurance adopted the PREMIA insurance management
• Metro Systems Corporation software suite to perform the company’s primary business functions, including
underwriting and policy administration, claim management, and accounting. To
support these new insurance applications, they replaced their legacy Sun and
Dell IT infrastructure with a new IBM infrastructure.
“ ithournewIBM
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The company implemented four IBM Power® 520 servers and three Power
infrastructure,we’vebeen
550 servers running the IBM AIX® 6.1 operating system, as well as seven IBM
abletotakeadvantageof System x3650 servers and two IBM System x3850 servers running Microsoft®
Web-facingcapabilitiesand Windows®. An IBM System Storage™ DS4800 provides data storage, and
improvetheefficiencyand System Storage SAN switches connect the servers to the storage device. An
securityofourbusiness Oracle database stores and manages data related to the new PREMIA software,
processes.” while IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager provides automated data storage and
—Krungthai Panich Insurance
recovery capabilities.
Benefits
• Improves consumer satisfaction by enabling new Web-facing capabilities
• Reduces backup times, increases security, and improves recovery capabilities
• Delivers improved performance and reliability, and boosts internal process
efficiencies

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