With DROPS, GALIAN-SMABTP has secured and automated its multi-layer IBM i deployments, ensuring full traceability and controlled rollback capabilities.

Illustration Success Story GALIAN-SMABTP

The Customer

GALIAN-SMABTP operates in a niche insurance market serving real estate professionals.

Context

Before adopting DROPS, deployment processes within the Back Office were considered insufficiently industrialized. Practices were heterogeneous and operational pressure was high. While the Digital and Middle teams already relied on their own deployment tools and more “standard” CI/CD pipelines (Git and associated toolchains), those solutions were not compatible with the Back Office application landscape. As a result, the Back Office team lagged behind in terms of CI/CD and deployment industrialization.

Solution

The team was looking for a CI/CD solution capable of working seamlessly with their IBM i and Adelia application landscape. DROPS was selected for several key reasons: multi-layer coverage, traceability and version control, simplified deployment, controlled rollback capabilities, and strong ecosystem trust.

Case Study Highlights

  • Company: GALIAN-SMABTP

  • Industry: Insurance
  • Challenge: The main challenge was to secure and structure production releases in a context where deployments can be sensitive, stressful, and may require intervention outside of regular business hours.
  • Characteristics: GALIAN-SMABTP also faced a technical imperative linked to the evolution of its back-office application toward a web-based version: ensuring the strictly consistent delivery of the same compiled version across all IBM i, Windows, and Tomcat components.
  • Solution: DROPS
The real change is the peace of mind: today, we know that with one
click, the version is deployed consistently across all environments.
Zaïd ZARBOUT, Back Office IT Manager Information Systems Department - GALIAN-SMABTP