"Because the claims experience tends to be an eye-opening event for customers, insurers must develop a level of customer intimacy that facilitates customer satisfaction. Ultimately, improving the claims system will empower insurers to deliver on their brand promise and provide an enriched customer experience." 

Gordana Radmilovic

westMONROE Partners

Insurers evaluating insurance technology partners today  are in the same position as enterprises evaluating analytics vendors 5 or so years ago. Then they could go to a number of legacy providers like IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects and the software could do practically anything required as long as:-

  1. They had the patience and time to plan, implement and deploy- often a year or two minimum
  2. Very deep pockets for $Tens millions - $Hundreds millions
  3. The space to house armies of analysts, developers and consultants 
  4. Budget for large annual maintenance costs

The along came Qlik, Tableau, Sisense, Logi Analytics and a host of other agile analytics vendors.

They offered apps that: -

  • Line of Business people could deploy without waiting for IT and BI/Analytics specialists to spec and implement.
  • Could be funded from OPEX rather than CAPEX
  • Could be deployed in months
  • Supported self-service
  • Turned insight into better decisions
  • For users and personas across the enterprise 

The same is happening with insurance software- bloated enterprise apps that have underpinned carriers in the Americas, Europe, APAC are just too complex,costly,  slow to deploy, expensive to maintain, inflexible for users and customers

Insurtech has shaken up this comfy (for vendors) world but one still needs to be wary. Insurers need simplicity of use together with scalability, security, and deploy-ability across multiple products, perils and geographies. And a pay-as-you-go licensing model. 

 One benchmark is 360Globalnet already chosen by global and national insurers  for auto, home & contents, pet, travel and Commercial Lines insurance. Choose another two insurtechs and you have the shortlist to safeguard the future against disruptive threats from within and without the industry