Hardis Group is carrying out a tool-based audit of CAVAMAC’s IBM i information system.

For 15 years, CAVAMAC has been relying on a tailored application, developed in RPG for the back-office part and in Java for the HMIs, to manage basic retirement pensions, complementary retirement pensions and disability / death insurance for general insurance agents. The solution has undergone various enhancements to adapt to external requirements and to needs identified internally by the directors and professions.

Due to the retirement pension reform of 2010, CAVAMAC is required to feed data into the RGCU, an inter-scheme tool the purpose of which is centralize all the career data for each person benefiting from social security, in order to facilitate calculation of retirement pensions. This obligation to feed data into the RGCU required implementation of a major enhancement of the application, and led the fund to consider the application’s long-term future, on a technical level and also relating to internal skills. 

Two scenarios were envisaged: deployment of the PICRIS business software package, or conservation of the IBM i system. To take this decision, CAVAMAC assigned Hardis Group the task of performing a tool-based external audit.

“This Application Healthcheck enabled us to objectively assess the quality of the code in our legacy application. Using reference metrics, we were able to confirm that the RPG programs and the development processes on IBM i more than met our objectives in terms of code quality and security, traceability and separation of responsibilities.“ —Maryse Gauthier, manager of the CAVAMAC IT department.