Reducing Risk, Cost and Complexity for Zurich Insurance
How this insurance company smoothly migrated 23+ different ERP systems 23 legacy SAP systems into a single production instance.
Key Takeaways
⇨ Zurich Insurance Group consolidated 23 legacy SAP systems into a single production instance, improving efficiency and reducing costs.
⇨ Syniti provided a reusable, automated data migration toolset, enhancing data quality and governance throughout Zurich's Finance Transformation Program.
⇨ The program achieved over 99% data accuracy, significant cost savings, and a reliable, repeatable migration process, demonstrating the effectiveness of Syniti's solutions.
To reduce costs and improve efficiency, Zurich Insurance Group embarked on a Finance Transformation Program that involved consolidating 23 legacy SAP systems into a single production instance. As a multi-year, multi-wave program Zurich needed a reusable migration solution and methodology for future waves.
In its evolution into a global insurer, Zurich developed or acquired a large number of ERP systems. While these tools were designed to meet local regulatory or financial reporting requirements, they often used differing data standards. Through migration with a bespoke tool set, this made it difficult to identify conflicting business rules or create effective and reusable reconciliation reports, making reuse between country deployments or for data cleansing impossible. To remedy this, Zurich decided to implement an integrated data migration tool set that
could better identify, harmonise and remediate these differences, and govern data quality in the target solution reducing risk.
“We can now clearly show our business users how and where their legacy data would result in an error when put
through the transformations and validations of the target system.”
Andrea Smith
Program Manager, SAP Convergence IT
Zurich Insurance
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As the program involved deploying multiple waves in parallel, Zurich needed an easier, repeatable, traceable and fully auditable migration process. Syniti offered exactly what Zurich needed — automation, prebuilt content, reusable templates and expert services. Through proactive data assessments and active management of the data cleansing and reconciliation process, Syniti helped Zurich enhance and govern all aspects of data migration.
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