United Arab Emirates (UAE) - Daman national health insurance company adopts RedHat

Red Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Daman, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) first specialized national health insurance company, has significantly reduced operational costs, improved stability and reliability and simplified management of its enterprise content management application by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform.

Daman handles more than 1.4 million medical claims each month, a tremendous number of requests on its underlying systems with an estimated 20 million IT related transactions dailyTo increase efficiency, improve control of information, and reduce the overall cost of information management, Daman opted for an enterprise content management application, which was deployed on a proprietary operating system. However, as the system did not integrate well with the rest of its open source IT infrastructure, the company decided to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Since its establishment in the region, Daman has been a strong advocate of open source technology and has invested heavily in developing the necessary skill sets to carry out complex implementations and maintenance of such systems within the organization itself.