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For insurers running the Ingenium core · COBOL · AIX · MQ

Modernize your Ingenium insurance core — step by step, without a risky rip-and-replace.

Nova brings your legacy COBOL/Ingenium platform into a modern toolchain: automated deployments, REST APIs, and cloud-ready infrastructure. Proven in production with a real AIX-to-Linux migration completed in ~9 months and deployment time reduced from ~3 hours to ~20 minutes.

Keep your Ingenium logic · Deploy on cloud, on-prem or hybrid · No vendor lock-in

What Nova is, in plain terms

If you run Ingenium, here is exactly what this is, the problem it solves, and where you start.

What Nova is

A third-party modernization platform for insurers on the Ingenium life core. It integrates with and gradually upgrades your existing system — it does not replace or touch your Ingenium licence or source.

The problem it fixes

Legacy COBOL on AIX with hour-long compiles, manual deployments, no REST APIs, and a shrinking COBOL talent pool — all slowing product launches and raising run-cost.

What you get first

Nexus: a VS Code toolchain that automates COBOL builds, deployments, and environment management. Hours become minutes, and COBOL becomes AI-assisted inside a modern IDE.

Why it is credible

Built from a real Ingenium-to-cloud migration completed in ~9 months. You keep full IP ownership; deploy on cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. No vendor lock-in.

The problems Ingenium teams face every day

These slow product launches, raise run-cost, and increase operational risk.

COBOL builds take hours

Small changes trigger long compiles. Releases are slow, and engineers wait instead of shipping.

AIX is expensive & aging

Proprietary AIX, IBM MQ and WebSphere carry high licence and maintenance cost, and the COBOL talent pool keeps shrinking.

Manual, risky deployments

Releases and environment setup are manual and drift over time — the same test passes in one environment and fails in another.

No modern APIs

Without REST endpoints, connecting to digital channels, bancassurance partners, and new products needs fragile workarounds.

The benefits, in concrete terms

Every benefit maps to a specific operational change — not a slogan.

  1. Reduce deployment time from around 3 hours to around 20 minutes with automated COBOL builds and one-click releases in VS Code.
  2. Reduce legacy platform dependency by moving from AIX/MQ/WebSphere toward open, Linux-based infrastructure (cloud optional).
  3. Open your core with REST APIs so digital channels and partners integrate without MQ middleware.
  4. Preserve your Ingenium business logic and data — modernize around it, phase by phase, with rollback at every step.

Results from a real Ingenium modernization

Measured on an anonymized production migration — indicative of what your programme can target.

3h -> 20m

Deployment time reduction for a representative change (proven in production)

~5 min

Planned downtime per deployment window

9 months

AIX-to-Linux migration completed (real timeline)

In production

Reference rollout status

A clear, phased roadmap — each step delivers value on its own

You start with the Foundation and Nexus, see results, then decide how far to go. No forced timeline, no big-bang.

Prerequisite

Foundation

Move Ingenium from AIX to Linux (cloud or on-prem). Proven in ~9 months. This is the base every later phase builds on.

Available now

Nexus

VS Code DevOps toolchain: automated COBOL compilation, deployments, environment management, and encrypted credentials. A representative deployment moved from ~3 hours to ~20 minutes.

In development

Orbit

Expose Ingenium as REST APIs, remove MQ middleware, and begin migrating critical logic from COBOL to high-performance Rust.

Planned

Vista

Modern React interfaces for customers and agents, replacing legacy JSP screens with a responsive digital experience.

Planned

Apex

Full re-architecture of business logic and data into a completely modern, cloud-native insurance platform.

Why executive teams choose Nova over alternatives

Big-bang core replacement

Multi-year programme, very high budget, high failure risk

Do nothing

Run-cost keeps rising and the COBOL talent gap widens every year

Generic modernization vendors

Consulting-heavy, without hands-on Ingenium/COBOL migration experience

Nova phased approach

6-week Windows-first POC for fast executive visibility, then 6-month trial continuation under governance gates

Ready to discuss your Ingenium roadmap?

Start with a scoped POC on one of your own Ingenium flows — prove the build-and-deploy improvement before committing to anything bigger.

Free 30-minute discovery call. No sales pitch — just an honest assessment of whether Nova fits your situation.

📧 ingenium.modernization@gmail.com · Typical response within 2 business days