Specialisations

Transformation and Modernisation

We are an experienced and successful system modernisation practice.

The Preview team has a depth of knowledge covering design, development and implementation of software solutions that work (and don’t cost the earth).

Insurance

Insurance is certainly our thing! Preview understands the fundamentals of insurance businesses. Preview nurtures long-term relationships with each company it serves. Our people have an in depth understanding of the insurance lifecycle and the business functions that serve them - sales (distribution) and marketing, underwriting, business rules, policy issuance and management, billing and claims.

The experience of our people and their diversity of expertise cannot be found elsewhere. Our excellence in standards of performance is maintained and sustained via continued learning and application.

Complex situations and problems are a Preview specialty. We pride ourselves on finding solutions where others could not. The Preview team have expertise to assist in situational analysis, problem definition and guidance through the options.

Business Rules and Business Process drives insurance. Insurers must underwrite, price and adjust consistently to ensure they remain competitive. Success depends on making smarter decisions than the competition.

So, can business process management (BPM) and business rules engines (BRE) solutions give insurers a competitive advantage?

Insurance rules evolve slowly while technology changes rapidly. A complete business rules engine solution can enable the design, integration, automated execution, and optimisation of decisions within processes, and allow the business to react with speed to market forces and lead product innovation.

Insurance companies face continual challenge in a very competitive environment. Issues include attracting new customers, rapid deployment of products and product changes, delivering quotes, selling additional services to customers, managing underwriting risk and meeting regulatory requirements. As business process management (BPM) improves efficiency and effectiveness of organisations through automating and optimising the business processes, it is a key component of any Preview Business and IT initiative that will produce a more responsive insurance company.

Specialist areas of focus

• Business Rules / Decisioning solutions
• Business Process Management
• Database migration to DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
• Re-engineering within existing language & SOA
• Documenting legacy applications
• Language migration e.g. Cobol to Java or C#
• Tuning & re-architecting for performance
• Web enablement & smart GUI
• Product distribution
• Hollowing & APIs to workflow, rating engine etc.

Our technology specialisation covers COBOL through to .net and Java EE and everything in between!

Our insurance system software expertise includes

• Polisy, LIFE, Polisy 400, Life 400
• CLOAS and COGEN
• HUON / Protect
• Insure 90 and Koukia
• Various other software solution and component vendors

We focus on liberating business rules & deploying them in a new technology "body"... We audit the operation, offer solutions to enhance & improve.

MARK MIDWINTER
Director