iMSA adopts DROPS to manage the deployment of its 60 applications across 235 environments, involving 220 users.

Drops iMSA Case Study

The Customer

iMSA (IT of MSA) is the MSA's technological branch, managing all information systems, including the two data centers that support all branches of social security.

Context

iMSA's Release Management System was an internally developed solution based on shell scripts and COBOL programs.
Although operational and satisfactory, it was showing its limitations in the face of the adoption of new technologies and the acceleration of time-to-market, leading to an increase in maintenance costs.

Solution

The DROPS solution was chosen to manage any type of application, including various languages and types of components through a single delivery tool. In addition to its functional coverage, the choice of DROPS was also based on the vendor's ability to respond and adapt to the organization’s specific needs, as well as its policy of transferring the solution to the Open-Source world.

Case Study Highlights

  • Company: iMSA

  • Industry: Social Security Organization
  • Characteristics:
    To respond effectively to these new challenges, it was therefore decided to launch a radical overhaul of the global software factory, based on a functional, modular architecture.
  • Challenge:

    • Guarantee the consistency of the functional packages distributed,
    • Speed up deliveries without compromising safety,
    • Reduce and control maintenance costs related to the complexity brought about by new technologies,
    • Meet the requirements of compliance and traceability checks imposed internally or by public
      authorities.
  • Solution: DROPS
"ARCAD Software's open-source orientation was clearly stated quite early on, which is an important argument for us in our open-source policy"
Nicolas Cazottes, Product Manager, Software Infrastructure Division, iMSA