Published on 20-May-2008
"By using WebSphere and DB2, QIS becomes a high-availability and scalable solution that can handle high loads and large numbers of concurrent users without impact on performance." - Bjorn Peijinenburg, Quinity project manager
Customer:
Monuta Holding
Industry:
Insurance
Deployment country:
Netherlands
Solution:
Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer, Business Continuity, Business Performance Transformation, Business Process Management (BPM), Business Resiliency, Empowering People, Enabling Business Flexibility, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
IBM Business Partner:
Quinity B.V.
Overview
Quinity, an ICT service provider based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, offers a modular and integrated Web-based policy and claim management system for insurance companies. The Quinity Insurance Solution was chosen to help and enhance the policy processes of Monuta Holding, the largest funeral insurance company in The Netherlands.
Business need:
Monuta Holding wanted to automate its policy request processes and enable customers to examine and adapt their records online.
Solution:
Monuta deployed the strategic QIS modules integrated with IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM DB2 Enterprise.
Benefits:
Monuta Holding now:
o Accepts 40 percent of policy requests without human interface and creates policies within 10 seconds.
o Experienced a 50 percent growth rate without adding new employees
o Provides 24&7 availability to all stakeholders
Case Study
Quinity B.V.
Utrecht, The Netherlands
www.quinity.com
Quinity offers a modular, fully integrated Web-based policy and claim management system for insurance companies and brokers in all types of insurance. The Quinity Insurance Solution supports all primary front-, mid- and back-office insurance processes.
“Our partnership with IBM gives customers confidence and trust in our solution. We greatly enhance our credibility by showing that the Quinity Insurance Solution is proven technology supported by one
of the biggest companies in the world.”
Björn Peijnenburg, project manager, Quinity
Challenge
Monuta Holding, the largest funeral insurance company in The Netherlands, wanted to automate its policy request processes and enable customers to examine and adapt their own records online. Monuta chose the Quinity Insurance Solution (QIS) from Quinity, an IBM Advanced Business Partner that participates in IBM Partnerworld® Industry Networks, because Quinity offered superior functionality out-of-the box with fast, low-cost implementation. Quinity is optimized in the insurance industry network.
Solution
Monuta deployed strategic QIS modules integrated with IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM DB2® Enterprise. The solution gives users access to key processes via the Internet, extranet and intranet and lets customer employees quickly handle policy requests and provide quotations. Business partners can now sell the insurance company’s products from within the company’s network as well.
QIS modules share a central database, which ensures that all insurance professionals and customers always have the same and most up to date information. “By using WebSphere and DB2, QIS becomes a high-availability and scalable solution that can handle high loads and large numbers of concurrent users without impact on performance,” said Björn Peijnenburg, Quinity project manager.
Benefits
Since deploying the Quinity Insurance Solution with IBM WebSphere and DB2, Monuta Holding:
• Accepts 40 percent of policy requests without human interference and creates policies within 10 seconds
• Experienced 50 percent growth without adding new employees
• Provides 24x7 system availability to all stakeholders
• Slashed time to market for new insurance products
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Software:
DB2 Enterprise 9, WebSphere Application Server Enterprise Edition
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