As Harleysville Insurance Com-panies, a multi-line insurer in Harleysville, Pa., expanded, new information systems proliferated. We were facing dramatic growth as a result of acquisitions and internal start-ups, says Bob Friend, application development manager for Harleysville.
We were running on various database structuresDB2, VSAM, flat files, SQL tables, FOCUS databases, ADABAS, Microsoft OLAP, Cubes, and others, he says. There was no established reporting standard, and creating reports was time intensive. Some reporting requests were simply impossible to fulfill.
Harleysville decided it needed to move its mainframe application to the Web to create applications that met the needs of employees and agents outside the home office, as well as establish reporting standards for the enterprise.
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