Case studies

Aspen-Re Insurance - Pre-Deployment Application Profiling

For over two years, Diagnosys has worked with Aspen-Re Insurance as their preferred performance testing house, to assist the business in ensuring that all business-critical applications are deployed to the business with appropriate performance service levels.

Early on in the planning stages for their most critical business applications, Aspen-Re recognised the importance of proactively engineering good performance into the application before production deployment. The level of business risk of supporting an application that did not meet the needs of business users and customers, was considered unacceptable.

The Diagnosys Application Profiling service was selected as the most appropriate performance testing methodology, due to the simplicity of the service, the ease in which it can be integrated into the development and pre-deployment test program, and the immediate value the service provides to the business and all technical project groups involved.

With a strategy of ‘Buy rather than Build’, most of Aspen-Re's business-critical applications are developed by 3rd party software houses. It is therefore important to Aspen-Re, that the business has early insight into the expected end-user performance of the application once deployed across the global networked infrastructure, and have the opportunity to address any forecasted issues with the developers that may impact end-user performance of the application, once in production.

Two years or more into the business partnership, Diagnosys is firmly entrenched into Aspen-Re's numerous project development and support programmes, assisting the business with not only deploying new applications with optimised performance, but also working with Aspen's in-house application support teams to test the performance of applications currently deployed and identify opportunities  for further improving system performance and scalability.

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