Achmea needed to quickly react to the fast changing insurance market. To be able to do this, Achmea had to rethink and refactor the software development processes that were used to facilitate the development and updates to the internal, as well as the external web application. To be able to do that, they had to streamline all of theirs .NET development under one Software Factory and under one development methodology.

Avanade helped Achmea implement the Software Factory based on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. In addition, Avanade's asset, ACA Lifecycle, was used to bring even higher value to the implementation of the Software Factory.

• With the new Software Factory, Achmea has become more flexible and more responsive to the fast changing market.
• Achmea can easily staff their projects because there is only one development methodology and only one set of common development tools.
• Deeper insight into the IT processes based on the information coming from the development process
• Productivity gains for the developers, testers and project managers based on the easier and quicker insight into results of the development process
• Project duration was decrease because the developers can now focus on solving problems and not trying to figure out the new methodology and tools every time.