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Enabling Technology-led Business Growth with Zensar’s Digital Foundation Services
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Construction & Infrastructure
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Leakage & Flood Monitoring
Services
- System Integration
- Training
The Challenge
The customer, a multinational shared value insurance company based in South Africa, was struggling with implementing a technology-enabled business transformation strategy for agile operations. The company aimed to expand its business and launch its behavioral change platform across new geographies, improve operational efficiency, and enable the overall digital transformation of the business. However, it faced several challenges including the absence of best practices for ITSM processes, lack of end-to-end service monitoring capabilities, no service scalability measures and continuous service availability, no continuous business support across different time zones, absence of a continuous improvement strategy across people, process and technology, improper knowledge management and handover structure, and issues with Total Quality Management (TQM), Automation, Orchestration and Self-healing.
The Customer
Not disclosed
About The Customer
The customer is a multinational shared value insurance company headquartered in South Africa. It serves insurance companies and individuals worldwide through its health, life insurance, and investment products. The company offers a leading global behavioral change platform that rewards people for adopting a healthier lifestyle. The platform enables market and product teams to build their functionalities in an accelerated way. The customer is committed to its vision of making the population more physically active by 2025 through its behavior change platform.
The Solution
Zensar was brought on board as a key consulting and implementation partner for Digital Operations, including Event Management, Knowledge Management, and Incident Management. The focus was to optimize the customer’s operations (ITSM delivery) and to meet the ongoing requirement of service scalability, service availability and rollout the reward program of its behavioral change platform across different geographies, thereby improving customer experience. This led to the successful launch of the rewards program in the USA, UK, Asia, Australia, Canada, South America, and Africa. Other solutions designed within the Digital Foundation Services framework include establishing a global 24x7 incident management desk utilizing one integrated ITSM platform and standardized processes, better integration with critical functions to improve first call resolution (FCR) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR), proactive problem management, implementing Power BI, Kibana, alert notification to ITSM platform, configuration, optimization and integration of Dynatrace to ITSM platform for improved monitoring, notification and ticket automation, and restructuring teams to improve maturity, knowledge, and easy scaling of business.
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