The modeling and pilot stage of system development took 18 months. But in the planning process, we realized that the large scale of this development would be difficult to handle in-house. At that point, the company decided to use the IAA model to develop a new system. Applications Flexibility IAA's data and function models were essential to system development for Hyundai. So even if the database changes, the system can accept the changes and work with them.
Data integrity is ensured, leading to reliable reports and statistics.
The Rules system also helps the insurance company to achieve applications flexibility. The user interface, database or business logic can often change. If any of these elements need to be altered, maintenance is much easier because all these parts are independent of one another. Time to market for new products is therefore reduced and the maintenance burden for IT staffers is also lessened. In fact, says Yang, new products have been introduced during development with no substantial workload increase, while rating changes were easily adopted, as well.