Farm Bureau Insurance, increases the efficiency of its data center operations by automating 40 percent more job scheduling tasks across heterogeneous platforms with Unicenter CA-7 Job Management. In doing so, Farm Bureau Insurance has been able to meet critical deadlines to ensure regulatory compliance.

In a data-intensive industry, insurance companies must execute transactions quickly and efficiently to maintain the currency of business data. Industry regulations set requirements for responsiveness, making timely processing a compliance issue.

A particular challenge for Farm Bureau Insurance has been to integrate jobs for new financial systems into existing, tightly scheduled production processes with their complex web of dependencies and constraints. Job Management has addressed Farm Bureau Insurance's challenges by enabling flexible scheduling based on job dependencies, virtual resource management and workload performance analysis. By recording job completion times in hundredths of seconds, Job Management helps ensure a high degree of precision that is critical for sites like Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance with complex scheduling requirements Job Management's intelligent set of automation controls, comprehensive reporting and alerting capabilities, Farm Bureau Insurance has been able to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance. Job Management fully automates workloads based on a full range of scheduling criteria, including job dependencies, resource availability, workload balancing objectives and backup/recovery requirements, and supports platforms and applications including SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle.

"In today's complex business computing environments, executing tasks in the wrong sequence can be even worse than having a task fail completely because the integrity of data and/or transactions can be seriously compromised," Farm Bureau Insurance, offers and services a complete line of auto, home, farm/crop, business/commercial, annuity, and life insurance products to Hoosiers through its network of over 450 agents and 1200 employees living and working throughout the state.