The UK's largest public service department, DWP, administers pensions and benefits to 20 million citizens with 100,000+ staff across 900 sites, paying out £202 billion yearly via DWP Digital's critical systems. Facing inflexible development, slow releases (just two yearly), growing backlogs, and high batch/maintenance demands, Rocket Software helped with Visual COBOL® and COBOL Server on AWS—converting 25M lines of code seamlessly, slashing batch times from 90 to 15 minutes, enabling 800+ deployments in 12 months, boosting agility, and saving nearly £200M NPV without service disruption.

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