Limit Underwriting Limited (LUL) is one of the largest managing agents operating within the Lloyd's insurance market with an underwriting capacity of £830m for the 2002 year of account. LUL provides access to teams of highly specialised and innovative professionals who are dedicated to understanding and responding to clients and brokers insurance needs across a diversified range of classes. They chose Cambridge-based Flynet to research options for bringing new life to its AS/400-based systems by developing a new browser-based graphical user interface more closely aligned to current business processes.

After a thorough review of methods for creating graphical interfaces to the RPG 'green on black' 5250 screens, including a number of different software products and providers, Limit decided that Flynet - using packaged web-to-host gateway software technology coupled with its own technical expertise and code modules - offered the most effective solution with minimal implementation time for the feasibility project. Flynet had proposed use of its Automatic Screen Recognition Module to automate creation of the vast majority of new screens from the risk, claims data and signings screens in the existing applications.

Kathy Long, IT Manager at Limit Underwriting commented:
“We chose Flynet as they proved to have the best track record in delivering web based solutions for the iSeries within budget and on time. In a matter of days Flynet created templates which automatically captured data from over one hundred 'green screens' from the existing systems. The new screens enhanced the usability of the systems by converting long lists of user options into simple 'drop down' menus in the new interface, and taking advantage of additional browser functions such as check boxes and radio buttons.”