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Avolution Case Study

The Wisdom of Algorithms


Jackson National Life Insurance Company

Industry: Financial Services “When you explain tech


Using ABACUS Since: 2016 in quantitative, monetary
Objective: Tackle technical debt across terms it really starts
200+ systems. Calculate risks and costs
associated with complex application making sense to people.
code, outages, security breaches and
unsupported software.
The data provided
About Company: During decades of
has been invaluable
growth, financial services company Jackson especially when talking to
National Life had accumulated standard
levels of legacy systems and technical debt.
By taking advantage of the algorithmic
executives.”
functionality in ABACUS, the enterprise Darren Kramer - Jackson
architecture team employ quantitative
data about cost and risk to manage
the company’s systems and technology
efficiently.
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www.avolutionsoftware.com
[email protected]
Tackling technical debt is like I think that speaks volumes to the
“We’ve done juggling a deck of overdue credit ease of use that the tool has.
this algorithmic cards, explains Darren Kramer,
analysis of cost Director of Michigan-based The team have also updated a
Jackson. “We’re trying to figure TOGAF metamodel in ABACUS so
and risk in six
it is custom fit for the business.
months, and I find
out which ones we need to pay
off first. It’s critical to keeping
it really promising the company’s systems in good Dollars and Sense
that we’ve been financial health.”
“Tech can be a really hard
able to get so Most companies suffer from concept to explain,” says
much out of it in technical debt, including Kramer. “But when you put it in
so short a time.” aging and complex code and quantitative monetary terms,
applications which are difficult to then it really starts making sense
maintain. But at Jackson National
Darren Kramer - Jackson
to people.
Life, Kramer and his team have
taken a scientific approach. By “Our senior executives are able to
setting out to manage risks look at our data from a business
strategically, they have spotted perspective, in terms of what are
opportunities for hard dollar the top priority projects.
savings, ways to improve IT
capacity and efficiency, and to “And we now have a good
reduce risk. view of the application and
technology landscapes and of
Bringing Data Together the interdependencies between
them. We’re also capturing the
Over a six-month period, different work packages and
Kramer’s team quickly projects we’re dealing with to
centralized data in ABACUS mitigate that risk as well.”
from spreadsheets, CMDBs and
SharePoint and from subject A self-service program ensures
matter experts. data is kept up-to-date.

They then used a quantitative “At any point in time we have a


approach, scripting algorithms fairly accurate picture of where
to classify and prioritize technical we stand,” says Kramer. “I do
debt and assessing costs to the feel that we’ve just scratched the
company in monetary terms surface in terms of what we can
either in terms of risk or of use this tool for. We’ve done this
maintenance overheads. algorithmic analysis of cost and
risk in six months, and I find it
“The ability for us to customize really promising that we’ve been
ABACUS to suit our needs was able to get so much out of it in
crucial for us,” says Kramer. so short a time.”

“This included being able to


easily update the metamodel
and to use the Open API
to automate some of our
calculations and algorithms.
Download a free 30-day trial:
Even while we were evaluating
www.avolutionsoftware.com
the tool, before any formal
Schedule a demonstration:
[email protected] training.

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