The document discusses IBM software solutions for connectivity and integration challenges in the insurance industry. It describes the complex networks of partner companies and need for secure data movement and integration. It then summarizes IBM's Sterling B2B Integrator, Managed File Transfer, and B2B Network solutions which help address challenges of business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, and enterprise integration. Finally, it provides examples of how IBM has implemented solutions for insurers to connect to medical practitioners, automotive agencies, and call centers.
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
MFX is a P&C insurance vertical systems integrator with capabilities in PaaS, IaaS, ADM, Testing, BPO, Analytics, GRC services. Our strength lies in strong domain expertise.
Digital innovation being demanded by every business unit is transforming IT’s role to that of the main driver of new growth initiatives, prompting a shift in perspective and strategy for CIOs that begins with a well-planned and executed approach to managing customer identities. While legacy IAM might seem like a natural starting point for meeting this challenge, customer identity and access management (CIAM) has significantly different requirements and outcomes when compared to employee-facing IAM.
Chap01 Foundations of Information Systems in BusinessAqib Syed
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
Learn about flexible cloud technologies and expert services to optimize your dynamic business network. This guide provides an overview of the IBM B2B integration cloud portfolio, including: IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network; IBM Sterling File Transfer Service; and capabilities including mapping, transformation, community enablement, fax conversion, e-invoicing, and more.
Manual data processing made Bonnie vulnerable to human errors and long delays. To improve customer service, they needed a solution for increasing operational ef ciency and providing better visibility into internal business processes and external trading partners. IBM® Sterling B2B Integration Services enables Bonnie Plants to grow and operate more efficiently.
In this solution guide from IBM partner Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com) you will learn:
• How to achieve competitive advantages through B2B collaboration
• How Sterling B2B Integration Services allows improved allocation of internal resources
• What drives increased profitability
Benefits
• Increases business agility and control
• Offers flexible delivery options
• Offers world-class support
• Offers comprehensive security capabilities
• Offers data integrity
MFX is a P&C insurance vertical systems integrator with capabilities in PaaS, IaaS, ADM, Testing, BPO, Analytics, GRC services. Our strength lies in strong domain expertise.
Digital innovation being demanded by every business unit is transforming IT’s role to that of the main driver of new growth initiatives, prompting a shift in perspective and strategy for CIOs that begins with a well-planned and executed approach to managing customer identities. While legacy IAM might seem like a natural starting point for meeting this challenge, customer identity and access management (CIAM) has significantly different requirements and outcomes when compared to employee-facing IAM.
Chap01 Foundations of Information Systems in BusinessAqib Syed
James A. O'Brien, and George Marakas. Management Information Systems with MISource 2007, 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2007. ISBN: 13 9780073323091
Learn about flexible cloud technologies and expert services to optimize your dynamic business network. This guide provides an overview of the IBM B2B integration cloud portfolio, including: IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network; IBM Sterling File Transfer Service; and capabilities including mapping, transformation, community enablement, fax conversion, e-invoicing, and more.
Manual data processing made Bonnie vulnerable to human errors and long delays. To improve customer service, they needed a solution for increasing operational ef ciency and providing better visibility into internal business processes and external trading partners. IBM® Sterling B2B Integration Services enables Bonnie Plants to grow and operate more efficiently.
In this solution guide from IBM partner Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com) you will learn:
• How to achieve competitive advantages through B2B collaboration
• How Sterling B2B Integration Services allows improved allocation of internal resources
• What drives increased profitability
Benefits
• Increases business agility and control
• Offers flexible delivery options
• Offers world-class support
• Offers comprehensive security capabilities
• Offers data integrity
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Visibility InboundLightwell
Provide visibility across supplier and carrier networks with IBM Sterling Supply Chain Visibility Inbound.
Benefits:
• Reduce lead-time variability by identifying and adjusting to supply exceptions in real-time
• Improve supplier compliance by detecting potential order delays or shortages even before the order is shipped
• Reduce blind spots through supply chain process models that track the order lifecycle and alert on potential bottlenecks
IBM MQ: The messaging solution for virtually all industriesLightwell
Simpler, faster and more reliable messaging to help enable a more responsive and agile enterprise. In this solution brief from IBM partner Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com) you'll learn how IBM MQ can:
● Help enable enhanced customer interaction with faster, more reliable data processing, exchange and connectivity
● Help enable mobile banking and mobile retail innovation with support for MQTT applications
● Manage compliance and risk effectively with more reliable, security-rich data exchange
● Help enhance collaboration with a universal messaging backbone that connects virtually all systems and devices from mainframe to mobile and sensors
● Help enable pricing innovation and faster revenue growth in telcos with simpler applications
● Integrate more seamlessly telco business and operations for enhanced customer loyalty
IBM B2B and Commerce Solutions for CommunicationsLightwell
Solutions guide from IBM partner Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com) explores how:
• One communications service provider increased its billing collection rate by 76 percent within one year of implementing IBM B2B and Commerce Solutions
• A broadband communications service provider doubled their average sales in the first three months with IBM B2B and Commerce Solutions
• A U.S. cable, TV and broadband provider migrated a significant portion of its sales and ordering to the lower-cost e-commerce channel
• A U.S.-based broadband provider deployed one order management system to orchestrate and execute virtually all fulfillment transactions
IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62Lightwell
Increase the speed and reliability of extending your business beyond organizational walls with IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62.
Highlights:
● Centralize and consolidate business- to-business (B2B) trading-partner connectivity with a purpose-built, DMZ-ready B2B Gateway
● Access new customers and new routes to market with standards-based trading- partner management
● Rapidly adjust product and service offerings to meet changing requirements with support for Web 2.0 technologies
● Unlock siloed information with drop-in B2B integration for heterogeneous environment
IBM Comprehensive Business-to-Partner IntegrationLightwell
Today’s environment demands flexible, well-designed partner and systems integration solutions that can help leverage existing investments, respond more easily to change, cut costs as they improve performance, and enable companies to capitalize on opportunities ahead of their competitors. Discover the benefits of IBM's Comprehensive Business-to-Partner Integration: A Tool for Revenue Growth.
Providing the foundation for an omnichannel customer experience with IBM Store Enablement.
Throughout the retail community, the store has now become a critical component of maintaining customer satisfaction. Satisfying the customer’s needs for finding inventory in the store or elsewhere in the enterprise, and monitoring the fulfillment of those items to keep the promise, whether through pickup or delivery, that the store has made to the customer.
Coca Cola Bottling: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Case StudyLightwell
Manual searches and information delays were creating operational bottlenecks and business inefficiencies for Coca Cola. CCBCC’s business was running on a multitude of different technologies. Manual searches and information delays were creating operational bottlenecks and business inefficiencies. CCBCC would manually enter the equipment services work order into their legacy system when work orders arrived via phone or fax from their customers. This process was time consuming and open to error, and so CCBCC began to question the potential cost of these errors. CCBCC needed to quickly accept and return information electronically without error and focus on software replacement as a means to improve cross-application and system integration. They needed a flexible and robust system to integrate internally with SAP as well as other existing systems.
Our B2B Managed Services offerings combine the industry-leading capabilities of IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator, the deep technical and business expertise of our consulting team, the numerous benefits and capabilities of our innovative B2B Framework, and world-class hosting and infrastructure.
Extend governance over critical B2B integration and MFT file exchanges with IBM Control Center.
Highlights:
• Improves B2B governance and compliance
• Increases customer satisfaction
• Provides central monitoring and configuration management
Achieve 100 percent integration with your dynamic business network with IBM Sterling B2B Integration.
Benefits:
• Offers faster and easier partner on boarding
• Offers more effective communication with trading communities
• Offers visibility into business activity for predictable performance
• Offers faster ROI on B2B projects
Achieve 100 percent integration with your dynamic business network. In this solution overview from IBM partner Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com) you'll learn:
Overview
In this solution overview,
you will learn about:
• Protecting and flexibly integrating trading communities
• Extending internal IT and business processes to external partners
• Achieving visibility into key external B2B IT and business processes
• Accelerating the ROI of B2B projects
Benefits
• Offers faster and easier partner onboarding
• Offers more effective communication with trading communities
• Offers visibility into business activity for predictable performance
• Offers faster ROI on B2B projects
IBM Governance, Risk and Compliance for Data Movement and ExchangeLightwell
In this solution brief from IBM partner, Lightwell (http://www.lightwellinc.com), you will learn:
• What issues impact risk in data movement and exchange
• Why existing controls are not keeping pace
• How IBM Business Integration Suite helps provide better GRC for data movement and exchange
How its key capabilities enable you to:
• Lessen the security risk from moving and exchanging file-based information
• Implement continuous controls monitoring for your B2B and MFT
infrastructure
• Simplify and automate more of your technical compliance and audit reporting
IBM Sterling Delivery and Service SchedulingLightwell
Significantly improve customer expectations by providing superior product delivery and services with IBM Sterling Delivery and Service Scheduling.
Benefits of order transaction:
• Increases revenue through additional service offerings
• Improves customer satisfaction by scheduling product deliveries and associated services at time of sale
• Improves the fulfillment of both products and services based on the order conditions and resource availability
• Decreases the cost of providing services by outsourcing to a third party
Accelerate Commerce with Cloud [Infographic]Lightwell
eCommerce professionals are leveraging Software as a Service (SaaS) to quickly, easily, and securely stay competitive in today’s marketplace. eCommerce SaaS solutions enable companies to enter new markets and geos, drive revenue and margins and deliver personalized and consistent brand experiences across all channels.
EMC Perspective: What Customers Seek from Cloud Services ProvidersEMC
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To prosper in this new environment insurance companies can look to the cloud, in conjunction with other technologies, to help drive reinvention of their business model to offer new services and create direct, multi-channel relationships with customers
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5 Reasons Why IT Managed Services in Washington, DC, Are the Best.pdfBerryHughes
With managed IT assistance, many companies could survive. There are several traps for big to small organizations to avoid that IT may fix, like dedicating too many resources to time-consuming jobs and not providing adequate support services as a firm expands.
https://topnotchcomputers.com
A financial institution will be in an advantageous position to handle market conditions, pressures from competitors, and shift in buyer trends.
https://www.raybiztech.com/blog/dell-boomi/financial-institutions-leverage-boomi-platform
A presentation a friend and I worked on while brainstorming ideas for a technology startup. Our objective was to explore opportunities in industries we're familiar with and industries we believe are ripe for disruption. The presentation lays out key industry metrics and profiles successful companies (somewhat startup-focused) within each industry.
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Digital innovation being demanded by every business unit is transforming IT’s role to that of the main driver of new growth initiatives, prompting a shift in perspective and strategy for CIOs that begins with a well-planned and executed approach to managing customer identities. While legacy IAM might seem like a natural starting point for meeting this challenge, customer identity and access management (CIAM) has significantly different requirements and outcomes when compared to employee-facing IAM.
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Reducing Risk, Cost and Complexity Across Healthcare Processes With the Lightwell Healthcare B2B Gateway. The Lightwell Healthcare B2B Gateway solution helps healthcare organizations address HIPAA requirements (levels 1-7) while reducing risk, cost and complexity across their B2B processes.
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The healthcare payer ecosystem in the United States has changed dramatically over the last decade and is expected to evolve at an even faster pace over the next few years. Many world-class companies involved in healthcare payment processing are finding themselves constrained by their existing information technology infrastructure. The silos that they built around Business to Business (B2B) processing are constraining them, making it difficult to achieve governmental mandates and (more importantly) increase processing efficiency and competitive advantage.
The payers’ world today requires adherence to multiple industry standards, government regulations, and industry expectations. It is becoming more technical and payers need to become more agile (Figure 1). The IBM Standards Processing Engine Solution for Healthcare Payers is your answer to B2B enablement in today’s complex HIPAA/ACA (Affordable Care Act) world.
Hirschvogel Inc: IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services Case StudyLightwell
In 2007, Hirschvogel Inc. manually processed data to and from their ERP system, which was quite labor intensive. Therefore, when their parent company asked them to migrate to SAP as part of a global strategy, they were glad to participate. As part of that initiative, Hirschvogel Inc. needed translation services between EDI X.12 documents and SAP IDocs to enable automatic processing of e-commerce with their U.S. customers.
Hirschvogel Inc. had two options: the parent company could invest in additional in-house resources to manage and support B2B integration of multiple automotive standards and protocols or outsource the process to a trusted partner. Indeed, Hirschvogel Inc. wanted to implement the most cost-effective option to reduce total cost of ownership of B2B collaboration.
CEVA Logistics: IBM Sterling B2B IntegrationLightwell
For consumers, retail events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday are exciting opportunities to pick up a bargain—but for the logistics companies working behind the scenes, these massive spikes in demand can be a tough challenge.
To keep the supply chain moving smoothly, logistics companies rely on electronic data interchange (EDI) messages—containing information on purchase orders, invoices, acknowledgements and more— owing between hundreds of clients, suppliers and logistics partners. In the run-up to major retail events, the volume of EDI messages sent to logistics companies can skyrocket, and any processing delays increases the risk of lost revenues and damaged reputations. How can logistics businesses gain high-performance, dependable and scalable EDI services without breaking the bank?
B2B Integration for Healthcare - InfographicLightwell
B2B integration is a tough challenge, and technology upheavals and healthcare transformation are only going to make it tougher. You’re right to be concerned. Fortunately, IBM’s right here to help.
Protecting Margins and Creating Value in TelecomLightwell
In 2010, Communications, Media, and Entertainment (CME) businesses are becoming more confident in their revenue potential with most companies feeling the recession is behind them or nearly halfway over. To prepare for spending growth, many CME businesses plan to increase their focus on sales strategies with a keen focus on improving customer collaboration as a top priority.
However, improving customer collaboration, especially in business-to- business (B2B) selling and order scenarios, is difficult to achieve due to product portfolio and selling/ordering process complexity. Within the CME marketplace, companies are offering customers a rich array of options including products and services via multiple channels. This is good news for customers, who demand freedom of choice and ease of use. But it makes selling and order management a complex task for CME companies, which are looking to optimise these processes to increase sales performance.
Learn about the transformation of managed file transfer: the drivers and challenges behind the transformation; what differentiates future-ready managed file transfer solutions from traditional managed file transfer; the business impact of modernizing your managed file transfer capabilities; and five questions to ask about your managed file transfer solution.
IBM Managed File Transfer Solutions OverviewLightwell
Learn about the products that make up the IBM Managed File Transfer Suite: the key capabilities they provide, what they allow our customers to do, how to know when you need a specific solution, and more. This guide provides an overview of IBM Sterling Control Center, File Gateway, Secure Proxy, Connect:Direct Advanced, and the Aspera File Sharing Suite.
IBM Omnichannel Commerce Solutions OverviewLightwell
Learn about changing consumer expectations and market demands, how the IBM Commerce solutions help, and they key advantages and capabilities of the IBM platform for ecommerce and order management.
IBM B2B Integration Gateway and Transformation Engines OverviewLightwell
Learn about common B2B integration challenges, the key advantages of modernizing your B2B capabilities, and how the IBM B2B integration solutions (including IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM Transformation Extender, IBM Transformation Extender Advanced, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Sterling Control Center, and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy) can help. You'll learn how these solutions work together to address a wide range of business, industry and technology needs today.
Learn about Lightwell's B2B Framework that includes:
- Over 300 pre-built components and assets
- Pre-defined, configurable rules-based processes for most common communication, translation, and routing needs
- Centralized visibility and control of documents and processes
- End-to-end visibility and 360° life-cycle tracking
- Simplified trading partner onboarding and management
- Secure, role-based access for business users and partners
- Individualized dashboards and reporting for business and technical users
- And more
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
IBM Infographic - Enterprise File GatewayLightwell
Do you have more than two existing file gateways?
Have you missed SLAs due to file transfer failure?
Add more than 10 new external connections a month?
Are your file gateways your Achilles’ heel of security and compliance?
Anticipating an internal or external security audit that
includes file transfer?
Learn how to solve these file transfer problems in this infographic from IBM.
At Lightwell, we develop and implement technology solutions that answer critical business challenges.
Since 1998, our experienced team has helped hundreds of companies across North America and Western Europe achieve their business and technology visions.
Our services and solutions provide organizations increased clarity and actionable insights that enable cost reductions, increase customer satisfaction, and accelerate growth. And we do this with unrivaled service expertise and innovative applications, tailored to our clients’ needs.
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Regardless of whether you need IT resources for two months, two years or need them on a permanent basis, Lightwell’s team of recruiting and staffing professionals is ready to support you with the best technology resources when and how you need them.
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Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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IBM Solutions for Connectivity and Integration in the Insurance Industry
1. IBM Software
IBM solutions for
connectivity and
integration in the
insurance industry
Helping deliver secure data movement and seamless
business integration
Executive summary
The Business Collaboration Networks (BCNs) that are fundamental to
business operations in the insurance industry feature complex
hierarchies of partner companies, complex rounds of multi-tiered
negotiations, complex products, and diverse channels of
communication. Add the mandatory needs for security and regulatory
compliance to the mix, and the challenges become clear. IBM®
Connectivity and Integration can help address these challenges by
enabling you to connect, communicate and collaborate even better with
the suppliers, customers and partners in your BCN.
The IBM solution
IBM®
Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM®
Sterling Managed File Transfer
and the IBM®
Sterling B2B Network connect people, systems, and
technology and are designed to enable the seamless and safeguarded
integration of business processes.
These solutions deliver a comprehensive set of industry-leading
capabilities that address the critical challenges of:
business-to-business integration•
managed file transfer and•
enterprise integration•
IBM Connectivity and Integration helps enable customers to solve their
integration challenges, both inside and outside their enterprise, by
transforming and signifcantly enhancing the business with a
comprehensive set of solutions rather than relying on multiple vendors
and complex cross-vendor implementations. As a result, insurance
companies can capture the greatest amounts of value and ROI, while
reducing the complexity and total ownership cost of implementing a
comprehensive integration strategy.
2. The insurance industry challenges
Consolidating data is a significant challenge. Transactions
involve large volumes of data, including complex contracts,
schedules of definition, and image files. Transactions can also
involve rounds of negotiation during which the risk is assessed
and the price is fixed, or the loss is evaluated and claims are
approved or adjusted. Sharing and managing data is part of
this challenge. Information has to be exchanged sequentially
though a chain of partner companies that share no technology
standards and have very different IT capabilities. Yet another
part of this challenge is a large number of business partners
and communication channels. At the hub of the collaboration
network is the insurance carrier (or re-insurer) who is
frustrated by the complexity, cost, service delays, and increased
risk imposed by multiple diverse business communication
channels (some manual rather than electronic).
The carrier is further frustrated by poor integration across
technology siloes inside its own enterprise.
A second big challenge is achieving revenue growth.
Customers’ situations change frequently, which results in
changes in the products and services they need. Products
themselves also change frequently. Growth in this
environment can be difficult and slow when matching
customer needs with products in a manual process.
Information security is also a challenge for the insurance
industry. The lack of secure integration compromises
customer relationship management, impedes business
development, and adds risks in data security and external
regulatory compliance. Products are specialized and complex,
especially for customized commercial lines business.
Quotation negotiations, risk assessment queries, and detailed
contracts all add to the volume of confidential information
that need to be exchanged securely and rapidly. The insurance
business and its brands rely on consumer loyalty and trust, so
maintenance of customer data, together with prompt, accurate
evaluation and settlement of claims are critical.
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:At the hub of the collaboration network is the insurance carrier (or re-insurer) who is frustrated by the complexity, cost, service delays,
and increased risk imposed by the lack of integration..
Insurance Business Collaboration Network
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Issue Capability Benefit
Consolidating data – the
need to create efficiencies
and reduce costs in sharing
and managing information
among many partners across
many channels by increasing
straight-through processing
Streamlining data movement with options such as:
• Consolidated data communications connectivity
between multiple partner companies in a
fragmented distribution chain, automatically
translating data formats and bridging across
diverse technologies
• Increased straight-through processing, with
automated error handling
• Collation and reconciliation of customer data with
policy data, risk exposure data and payment data
• Ability to accelerate receipt and processing of risk
exposure data
• Faster processing of premium receipt/revenue
processing and claims settlement/payment
processing
• Becomes ‘easier to do business with’
• Becomes respected for enabling community
connectivity
• Acquires reputation for improved efficiency and
accuracy, so enhancing the brand
• Is able to expedite real-time pricing transmissions and
complex policy negotiations
• Improves cash flow visibility and liquidity management
through greater certainty of payment movements
• Improves risk exposure management and provision
through faster transmission of ‘at risk’ data
• Reduces costs and errors through increased data
movement integration with fewer manual processes
Achieving revenue growth –
the need to preserve and
grow revenue by retaining
and developing customers
Automation improves growth with options like:
• Consolidation and matching of customer data and
status intelligence
• Efficient movement of data to and from CRM and
CCM systems
• Appropriate movement of customer data to and
from diverse authorized distributors
• Is able to synchronize the promotion of product
launches and communication of product updates
across multiple channels, both direct and through
partners
• Is able to cross-sell to existing customers based
upon more comprehensive and current customer
information
• Has even better current visibility of work-in-progress,
so can advise current status to customers, partners
and regulators
Information security – the
need to improve operational
risk management and data
security practices
Comprehensive world-class data security,
featuring options including:
• Managed file transfer to replace insecure FTP
transmissions
• Messaging transmissions
• Process recovery and restart
• Encryption to protect confidential and sensitive
customer data, both in storage and in transit
• Perimeter security
• User authentication
• Verifiable delivery
• Authenticated customer/partner self-service
• Improves its defense against data interceptions and
losses
• Increases the protection of the brand and reputation
• Reduces operational risk
• Reduces potential for fraud that could result in
significant costs and losses
• Support efforts to enable compliance with national,
state and industry data protection legislation and
other legal/regulatory obligations
• Reduces the associated risk of penalties/fines
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IBM Connectivity and Integration in the
insurance industry
Tactical, point solutions can be achieved using different,
individual components from many vendors, but the
smarter option is a comprehensive suite from one vendor.
IBM Connectivity and Integration is a comprehensive
infrastructure integration solution. Incremental, related
components can be added in stages, to limit operational risk,
while progressively achieving consolidated data movement
and process integration control, both internally and across the
entire Business Collaboration Network.
IBM in the insurance industry
IBM offers a comprehensive business data movement and
process integration solutions to over 800 insurance
organizations worldwide.
The IBM portfolio is distinct in providing data authorization,
analysis, validation, translation (between many packaged data
standards) and routing, coupled with security-rich data
management and network delivery, fully integrated into an
extensible and scalable solution.
IBM builds bridges between the different technologies used
across insurance communities, enabling insurance
e-commerce operations and efficient, safeguarded
transmission of insurance transaction data.
IBM connects a Eurozone healthcare insurer to a network of
medical practitioners, enabling rules-driven format validation
of claims files, transmission of files to the carrier, integration
into carrier claims processing systems, and the return of
settlement confirmations to the claimants.
IBM connects a major property and casualty insurer to an
automotive agency distributor that is the point of sale for
multiple personal lines insurance products to its consumers.
IBM connects a major insurance call center to six multi-
national carriers, enabling a single suite of call center policy
administration applications designed to connect seamlessly to
diverse carrier technologies.