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Germany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: AI & DATA Knowledge Transfer - Briefing 19

Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.

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Germany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Unstrukturierte Daten – Das verborgene Kapital in deinem Unternehmen

Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.  

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UK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

How CIOs drive game-changing results at scale?

This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.

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Netherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch

Vision Dinner From the Network to the Data

Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.

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Belgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Telenet Business Leadership Circle - Legacy & Lifecycle Management

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.

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Germany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: KI-CHECK: Wo steht dein Unternehmen?

Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.

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iPaaS breathes new life into Portugal-based insurer Gamalife

With EUR 9.4bn in assets, Gamalife is one of the top three life insurance companies in Portugal. It recently entered the Italian market with the acquisition of a large portfolio of almost 200,000 new customers.

Challenges
  • 20-year-old legacy banking systems slow down innovation and Open Banking initiatives
  • Mainframe built on RPG (Report Programming Generator) doesn’t meet modern integration requirements
  • Need to gain a unified view of data & records stored across the company
  • Pressure to reduce time to market in a highly competitive industry
  • Ambition to leverage an API-driven ecosystem to create new business channels while securely sharing data with third parties

Outcomes
  • Introduced an open, agnostic enterprise-grade integration platform
  • Modernized API ecosystem with full lifecycle API management platform
  • Deployed powerful MFT solution to boost productivity and end-user experience
  • Ensured compliance with strong personal data and security governance layer
  • Increased productivity and customer value with automated document creation

 
 
 “We chose our integration platform with a specific future goal in mind: to expose our services via APIs and enable real-time communication with the appropriate MFT (Managed File Transfer) software. At the moment we are already seeing significant benefits. We have much greater flexibility in building integrations between our systems, and between our system and those of our partners. We have already been able to implement some solutions and automations quickly, simply, and effectively, which was not possible before.”
- Rui Pinto - Head of IT, Gamalife

 

A single integration solution
 

Gamalife is a leading life insurance company in Portugal. Its decades-old integration infrastructure—inherited from the traditional bank which originally owned it—was no longer fit for purpose. Data was held in silos across the organization, core data was locked into a legacy platform and there were security issues with exposing data securely to third parties.

“Our core legacy platform as programmed on RPG and wasn’t up to the sort of modern integration we needed,” says Rui Pinto, Head of IT at Gamalife. “My team and I were getting more and more worried about vulnerabilities, not to mention the need to future-proof access to data in an ecosystem economy. It was time to act.”

The company needed a flexible integration platform as a service (iPaaS) combined with a Managed File Transfer capability and API management so they could securely expose data to partners and distributors. This would help them offer new solutions in the digital distribution of insurance as a service.

Furthermore, the solution had to be compliant with the demanding requirements of a heavily regulated financial sector. It was vital the company could maintain a complete overview of every communication and call made and received, as well as a record of all requests, both internal and external.

The value of experience

After talking to competitors, Gamalife chose a solution from Software AG’s local partner Findmore Digital, who recommended a solution based on webMethods.

“We selected Software AG and Findmore Digital because they had recently completed a similar project with a carve-out from the same bank we did—a non-life insurance company here in Portugal,” says Rui, “and we knew the results had been spectacular.”

The partner, supplier and customer got down to work. All the integrations between internal applications and between the company and our partners were transformed, without the need to touch the applications. This allowed us to make this evolution faster, safer and with less impact. As Rui explains, this offers his security team a significant advantage: “The architecture of the webMethods platform helps isolate specific areas to prevent breaches, and all communication is from inside to outside. That gives security a better view of traffic and makes it easier for us to expose our data securely.”

Everything they wanted. And more.

Gamalife's new webMethods.io Integration Platform is now up and running, providing services for all types of use, internal and external, streamlining the business and increasing the possibilities for the future evolution of the other platforms. And, as Rui says, the investment is proving to be even more valuable than the company considered at the start of the project. See what the company is doing with its new MFT solution:

“We anticipated three or four use cases for webMethods ActiveTransfer, but we soon saw it had so much more potential than we realized to increase the flow of data within our company, and with it the quality of services we offer. For example, we used to use a third-party service provider for customer statements and other documents, which involved generating and sending them thousands of .xml files every month. But now that whole process is automated.“

And while Gamalife is already reaping the rewards of its investment, things are set to really take off in the next phase.

This is just the beginning

"webMethods is based on open standards and has a thriving Developer Portal, so we're excited about what's to come," says Rui. "We're looking to develop new services so that our partners, in this case distributors, can serve our customers with more features and offer a better experience. The aim is to be ever closer to the customer."

Gamalife’s data is comprehensively protected by webMethods API management, a robust solution for managing their API portfolio. As well as offering rate limiting and gateway access policies to protect API resources, it gives the company advanced analytics to enforce authorization and security by using OAuth and other authentication methods, together with modern encryption standards. Traffic monitoring optimizes run-time performance conditions, enforces limits for service invocations, and sends alerts whenever conditions are violated. In addition, it makes it easy to conduct penetration tests to check for vulnerabilities.

“The whole process has been very smooth so far, and there have been no delays,” says Rui. “Believe me, that’s very rare. We worked together as a single team, and I’m confident Software AG and Findmore will be able to deliver this important next phase.”

 

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Embark on a culinary journey through the ever-evolving world of digital leadership with our third edition of the CIONET Cookbook: Recipes for Digital Success. Unveiling the intricate trilemma faced by today’s Master Chefs, our trailblazing European CIOs address a challenge at the nexus of customer interests, digital transformation strategies, and IT modernisation. Their secret? Synchronising the gearing between customer, business, and technology to create a frictionless movement through the digital landscape.

The CIONET Cookbook uses the analogy of a five-star restaurant to explain the importance of optimally integrated technology, with the CIO as Master Chef. In order to provide the best service to its customers, a top restaurant must have the right atmosphere, an inviting menu, a well-equipped kitchen, talented and committed front-of-house and kitchen staff and smooth-running processes that ensure an enjoyable experience for diners.

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