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Managing Complex Reinsurance Treaties for a Large Insurance Company Using a Web Based Application

MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the insurance domain to develop a web based application with a robust backend to manage and maintain complicated reinsurance treaties for a large insurance company. This application relieved the client from all paper based treaties and gave them a flexible and scalable business tool...

Tags: MindTree Consulting, Treaty, Reinsurance, Web-based Application, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

Case studies 2007-12-17

Check Point Software Technologies Case Study: Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading reinsurance companies and the biggest reinsurance company for life insurance and health insurance. The laptops are used by employees who travel a lot, commute between different locations or occasionally work in a home office. The reason behind the project is that the...

Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Reinsurance, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Case studies 2007-05-25

Global Insurer Improves ROI With Platform Migration for PeopleSoft HRMS

The ACE Group of Companies ACE, one of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance organizations, has assets of U.S. $43 billion. ACE INA, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the company's U.S. division. ACE had begun to implement PeopleSoft HRMS on a UNIX operating system and Oracle database when it discovered...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., ROI, Reinsurance, Migration, Microsoft Corp., HRMS, Organizational Structure, Insurance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

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Oracle Case Study: IAC Group

IAC Group, founded in 1956, offers a full range of risk management, insurance, debt protection, group benefits, and reinsurance products and services through financial institutions and government agencies worldwide. The group wanted to improve business intelligence and the integrity of customer-related data contained in multiple databases, each with its own...

Tags: Oracle Corp., IAC/InterActive Corp., Reinsurance, Insurance, Portals, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Internet, Software

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Revios Reinsurance Enhances Communication and Creates a Collaboration Infrastructure

Revios Reinsurance is a full-service life reinsurance organization. Its Toronto, Ontario-based North American operation has been providing U.S. and Canadian life insurance companies with risk protection services for over 30 years. Because communication tools are of critical importance to the operation of the organization, Revios decided to improve its internal...

Tags: Deployment, Collaboration, Reinsurance, Microsoft Corp., Revios Reinsurance, Groupware, Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

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Developers Create Insurance Data Integration Solution for Industry-Leading Firm

Since 1906, West Coast Life Insurance Company has been an industry leader. Recently, West Coast Life analysts and executives realized that too much time was being spent manually searching for information in a variety of formats, such as paper documents, spreadsheets, databases, and other repositories. To be more efficient and...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio, Industry, Reinsurance, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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Additional Resources

There is no pony plan for health care

There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Tech execs ask Bush for cybersecurity commission

Tech execs ask Bush for cybersecurity commissionIm guessingthis is a way for software companies to lock out open source software....... take it or leave it... thats what I think.Or better yet:How about not selling swiss cheese to people?The World Security Organisation may be nearer the markDear Mr McCullaghWe have read...

Tags: Insurance, SECURITY, cybersecurity commission, open source

Discussion threads 2005-02-10

Insurance Industry - From Policy to Profitability - Intelligent Automation at Work

Developing software, services, data & analytics offerings for the Commercial Property/Casualty Industry often becomes more expensive and time-consuming than it should be. After scope-creep comes accountability, blame, and disappointed users. Microsoft Certified Partner, Insurity, represents the integration of two essential elements - experienced insurance professionals and proven insurance technology. Please...

Tags: Analytics, Automation, Financial Planning, Insurance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

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Mercury Interactive Case Study: Willis Group

Willis Group is a leading global insurance broker that develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, and financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities, and institutions around the world. As Willis moves toward a global services platform that involves developing mission-critical applications that will...

Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., Mercury LoadRunner, Willis Group, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

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Improving Storage Management and Operations in Large, Distributed Environment

One of the nation's foremost investment and insurance companies is the largest seller of individual annuities in the United States and is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance, group and employee benefits, automobile and home-owner products, business insurance, and reinsurance. assets, particularly its backup environment. To improve overall...

Tags: Storage Management, Environment, Storage, Insurance, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

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Global Risk Management Firm Uses Mindjet MindManager to Develop and Implement Multinational Intranet Project

Aon is a world leader in risk management, retail, reinsurance and wholesale brokerage, claims management, specialty services and human capital consulting services. The challenge was to efficiently deploy country-specific knowledge portal sites to Aon offices in 14 Asian countries. The solution was to use Mindjet MindManager to plan and implement...

Tags: Aon Corp., Portal Site, Risk Management, Mindjet, Intranet, Portals, Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Management

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Global Risk Management Firm Uses MindManager to Develop and Implement Multinational Intranet Project

Aon is a world leader in risk management, retail, reinsurance and wholesale brokerage, claims management, specialty services and human capital consulting services. The challenge was to efficiently deploy country-specific knowledge portal sites to Aon offices in 14 Asian countries. The solution was to use MindManager to plan and implement a...

Tags: Aon Corp., Portal Site, Risk Management, Mindjet, Intranet, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

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Project @lcatraz: HP Adds Information Security to Munich Re's Traditional Risk Management Portfolio

Munich Re is the world's leading reinsurance company. By definition, insurance is all about risk. Munich Re has devoted countless resources to assess all sorts of risks - from natural catastrophes like earthquakes, windstorms, and floods to manmade disasters like bankruptcy and political unrest. Managing risk means being prepared. To...

Tags: Information Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Munich, Risk Management, Identity Theft, Insurance, Financial Planning, Internet, Litigation, Hacking, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

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Amlin Adheres to BSI PAS56 Business Continuity Standard With Symantec Consulting

The events of 9/11 and 7/7 focused minds on the fact that business continuity is not only associated with viruses and earthquakes. As one of the leading insurance and reinsurance companies operating in the Lloyd's market in the City of London, Amlin needs to ensure its business continuity and disaster...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Business Continuity, Amlin, It Services

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Folksamerica Reinsurance Company Executes on Strategic Vision for Companywide Information Accessibility

Folksamerica Reinsurance Company is a leading multiline broker market reinsurer and a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. The Folksamerica vision involved the virtualization of user workstations using Citrix software to provide reliable, secure, and device- and location-independent access to information companywide. To support this goal, the...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Vision, NetApp, Storage, Hardware

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Insurance Firm Cuts Costs, Increases Security With Global Identity Management System

As a global insurance, reinsurance, and financial risk specialist, the XL Capital group of companies XL wanted to create a global identity management system. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the company had acquired many disconnected systems. Because employees needed multiple IDs and passwords to access these systems, the...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Insurance, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

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