Legacy Modernization for the Payer Industry

Health care insurance customers are demanding flexibility in services and products, and they want more choices with higher quality and lower costs. As customers ask for more specialization, payers need to change their processes and systems to deliver high performance, but need to do so while not driving up administrative costs.

Payers operating large-scale volumes often believe that enterprise software package solutions are too costly and risky an approach for achieving the desired changes. As a result, many executives are looking for alternative long-term solutions. Accenture offers such an alternative solution through our legacy modernization services.

Through Accenture's legacy modernization services, payers can reduce legacy system inefficiencies with the goal of dramatically increasing system flexibility through a services-oriented architecture while reducing system costs. Legacy modernization requires less investment in time, money and people than traditional software package alternatives. It allows you to reuse and extend the functionality of your existing systems, and it provides a way to manage risk.

Through legacy modernization, we can help you:

• Provide more value to customers. Legacy modernization helps streamline new product introductions, accelerate system modifications and comply with privacy and security requirements.
  
  
• Eliminate inefficiencies. Accenture can help you reduce redundant and dead code, introduce new technologies, create a component and service-based architecture and document system configuration and requirements.
  
  
• Drive down costs. Legacy modernization helps to reduce system maintenance and lower process-related costs.
  
  
• Improve the return on your investment. Compared to system replacement, legacy modernization leverages your company's existing assets and in-house skills and reduces disruption to your business and IT functions.

Read about Accenture's Service-oriented Architecture.