Tuesday, 22 October 2013

AlfaStrakhovanie is the overall winner in “ITSM-project of the year 2013” contest

The Public Corporation Alfastrakhovanie has become a winner of the annual international contest done by IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF Russian Chapter). The project of the company is considered as the best ITSM-project of the year 2013. The main project objectives were to develop the integrated system of IT-service management and also to spread the practice of the complex process and service management over the business-divisions of the insurance company. This project involved a partner on technology and consulting, company OmniWay. The automation of the management processes was based on the software platform OMNITRACKER – the product of the German software publisher OMNINET.

This project involved more than 5000 employees of the insurance company, performing in more than 400 offices and regional representative offices. The project of formation and development of the integrated management system consisted of several stages.
The first stage included the projecting and implementation of the IT-management system, approval of the service quality policies and management processes reengineering. Process coverage of the first stage:
  • Service level management;
  • Service cost management;
  • Customer inquiries management;
  • Incident management;
  • Problem management;
  • Change management;
  • Purchase management;
  • Asset and configurations management;
  • Work-flow management.
Accordingly to the first stage result it was clear that the process foundation could serve as a basis for successful solution of applied IT and business-tasks.
The second stage was mainly focused on formation of the integrated management system and improvement of the IT-service quality. In terms of work-flow at this stage there was reengineering of the Service Cataloge which currently describes more than 100 business- and 250 technological services considering technological processing routes, providing service standards and geographical state of distribution of the offices. The important task of the second stage was preparation of the IT-service management system for the certification audit for compliance with ISO/IEC 20000 quality standards.  In the process of certification the work-flow processes of the company were audited in terms of international standard requirements and leading IT-service practice standards. The task was successfully solved and AlfaStrakhovanie was issued the international certificate of compliance with the quality standard ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 which serves as a guarantee of the IT-service quality regarding the consumer expectations.
The main goal of the third stage was transferring of the process management experience over the business-divisions of the insurance company.  The pilot implementation was made in terms of the Correspondence send/receive service in Operation department. The approach showing a good history in IT  was quite easily extended for the other service divisions. Furthermore the experience of integrated process and service management was successfully applied in other back-office divisions which allowed to increase the overall effectiveness of the business-processes and to decrease the expenses for organization of business-sections interaction dramatically.
Upon the completion of the project the following results were achieved:
  • IT-service quality increase (all the SLAs concluded with business-customers are reported to have stable positive references);
  • Dramatic decrease of transaction expenses:
    • While overall inquiries volume increased by 250% the expenses on processing went down by 70%;
    • Asset and IT-purchase management allows more accurate IT-expense control through business lines which gives more detailed information for evaluation of variety of insurance business directions;
    • Increase of insurance activity combine coefficient which is the universal effectiveness identifier for insurance companies;
  • Effectiveness increase and expense reduce in terms of back-office business processes;
  • Increase of the reputation level and image attractiveness by means of compliance with international certification.

Thus owing to the totality of the scale, complexity and effectiveness factors the project implemented by Alfastrakhovanie has become the brightest ITSM-project of the year. Experience and practices used in implementation will contribute into the overall development of ITSM-technologies in Russian and CIS and will help to popularize the modern management methods in the area of informational technologies.    

AlfaStrakhovanie PLC (www.alfastrah.ru) is one of the largest Russian insurance companies with a universal services portfolio including both complex corporate interest protection programs and a wide range of insurance products for private individuals. It holds several licenses for more than 100 insurance products, including life insurance. More than 400 regional representative offices conduct insurance activities in Russia.

OmniWay (www.omniway.ru) is a consulting company, specializing in design, automation and implementation of different business processes. The company offices are located in Moscow and Kiev. The key company activity is ITSM-consulting. The OmniWay consultants are certified specialists of ITIL Expert, IT Service Management, ISO20000 Consultant Manager, having significant experience in project implementation aimed at IT service quality& effectiveness increase. Among the customers of OmniWay are finance institutions, energy, trading, manufacturing and telecommunication companies, govermental enterprises.


OMNINET (www.omninet.ru) is a Russian subsidiary of the leading provider of software solutions
for automated IT services based on the recommendations of ITIL in Europe. The company was founded in 1993 in Germany; it has offices in Vienna, Brussels, the Hague and Bern. Since 2007, OMNINET has been actively developing its business in Russia and CIS countries. OMNINET customers include Siemens, Union Investment, Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, Mercedes-Benz, MICEX, ROLF Group, AvtoSpetsCentreGroup of Companies, Yandex.Money, Bank Saint-Petersburg, Sportmaster, Lenenergo, FOZZY Group, VTB Ukraine, MTI, and Prominvestbank. 



OMNITRACKER is a professional management system for technical support and other services. OMNITRACKER is useful in a number of areas; it can be adapted to the customer's requirements and business processes quickly, easily and cost-effectively.  The strategy of OMNITRACKER focuses on understanding and optimizing systems and corresponding business processes.

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