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Winterthur Competes on Loyalty, Not Price

As the No. 1 composite insurer in Switzerland, Winterthur decided it would be a mistake to compete on price alone. The challenge was measuring long-term value of customers and identifying best prospects for retention and cross-sell programs. Winterthur deployed SAS data integration and customer intelligence to give a holistic view...

Tags: SAS Institute, Winterthur

Case studies 2009-01-01

Winterthur Achieves Market Leadership in Reducing Costs and Increasing Quality With Standardized Business Processes

Winterthur is the leading insurance company in Switzerland. Winterthur was looking for a comprehensive BPM system to achieve cost control in the area of pension plan management by streamlining and standardizing processes. Having implemented other types of cost reduction programs common in the industry, Winterthur wanted to identify new savings...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Business Process, Leadership, BPM, Pension Plan, Winterthur, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Human Resources, Management

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dynaTrace Software Case Study: DBV-Winterthur

Insurer DBV Winterthur seeks to avoid risk: similar to the prototypical business of life, health or indemnity insurance, the Wiesbaden-headquartered company is also not taking any unnecessary risks with their IT infrastructure. To mitigate this risk DBV-Winterthur needed a modern diagnostics and load test tool providing for secure and reliable...

Tags: Software, Risk, Information Technology, Environment, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Java, Programming Languages, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2008-04-23

DynaTrace Software Case Study: AXA/DBV-Winterthur

Insurer DBV Winterthur seeks to avoid risk, similar to the prototypical business of life, health or indemnity insurance, the Wiesbaden-headquartered company is also not taking any unnecessary risks with their IT infrastructure. To mitigate this risk DBV-Winterthur needed a modern diagnostics and load test tool providing for secure and reliable...

Tags: Software, Risk, Environment, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Java, Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2008-01-30

Diesel wants to be your friend

Diesel wants to be your friendJust The Facts not Freedom Fries in Vegetable OIL original diesel fuelRudolf Diesel was born in Paris in 1858. His parents were Bavarian immigrants. Rudolf Diesel was educated at Munich Polytechnic. After graduation he was employed as a refrigerator engineer. However, his true love lay...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Rudolf Diesel, Diesel

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

IBM and Tectrade Help Winterthur Life UK Meet Storage Demands

Winterthur Life UK wanted to increase capacity and scalability of mainframe storage; improve performance and flexibility of storage for Microsoft Windows-based systems; and simplify storage management and enable faster response to new business requirements. Worked with IBM Business Partner Tectrade to implement an IBM TotalStorage DS8100 storage system, with IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Tectrade, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2007-05-09

City of Winterthur Gains Backup Speed and 100% Data Safety With NetApp Virtual Tape Library Solution

Located in the canton of Zurich, Winterthur is the sixth largest city in Switzerland. The city's administrative staff provides information technology services to more than 3,500 users. The City of Winterthur IDW wanted to streamline and improve backup services to accommodate 30% annual data growth and ensure 100% data protection....

Tags: Tape Library, NetApp, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

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Retaining Valuable Customers and Increasing Response Rates With SAS

With the advent of the Internet age, the rules have changed in the insurance business. There is much greater price transparency, customers are more likely to shop around for the best deal, contracts are shorter, and customer turnover is at unprecedented levels. As the No. 1 composite insurer in Switzerland,...

Tags: Customer, SAS Institute

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