Categories: All - insurance - costs - performance - data

by Martin Labuda 14 years ago

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Case Study

An insurance company is evaluating its current IT infrastructure, which includes an outdated DEC 2100 Alpha Server and various older Compaq Pentium computers. The existing setup struggles with slow response times and inefficiencies, particularly during end-of-month operations.

Case Study

Rusnak Insurance Company

Assesment

Financial reports
Interviews
Questionaries

Impementation

New ALternatives

Service provider

Cost $3,350/month

No initial cost

Can work with same software= no data loss

Unlimited number of users

The fastest response and processing

BEST ALTERNATIVE
New IBM AS400 server

Cost $270,000

Completely new software= high risk of loosing data during conversion

Limited number of users

New Compaq server

Cost $158,000

Same software= no conversion needed

Limited number of users

Improving the old server

The cheapest way. But no guarantee that the response time will imporve. Old server, no spare parts available.

Extra Hard disk
Aditional RAM
Buy new PC's

Old IT technologies

Server is not capable of running 20 computers.

Response time is very slow. End of month work takes too long. Processing speed is slow.

DEC 2100 Alpha Server
Printers
Computers

10 Compaq Pentium 120 MHz

6 Compaq Pentium II 233 MHz

4 Pentium III 450 MHz PC

Case study