Insurance IT Consulting Services


Helping Insurance Carriers deal with the distribution channel and its network

q    Choose and deploy distribution facing IT capabilities

q    Deploy systems built to connect to external partners

q    Open new distribution channels

q    Optimize existing channels

q    Take cost out of the distribution process
 

 


Insurance IT
Consulting

Swingtide's IT Consulting services provide assistance to financial services companies as they define, develop and deploy systems built to connect to external partners, open new distribution channels and optimize existing channels, as well as take cost out of the distribution process.

Swingtide places an emphasis on customer facing systems, as they are vital to any financial services company. 

Swingtide IT Expertise
Swingtide Consultants have years of experience and know where to focus when building distribution-facing systems capable of supporting revenue generation goals for both traditional and new distribution channels, while simultaneously containing costs.

The following table contains a sample list of Swingtide’s IT Expertise.

Swingtide Expertise

Defining, Deploying and Operating Insurance Systems, including

ü        Underwriting

ü        Rating

ü        Policy Administration

ü        Partner Accounting

ü        Illustrations

ü        CRM Systems

ü        Commissions Systems

ü        Agency Interfaces

ü        Submissions Management

Creating Single Customer Views

Selecting Front Office Suites

Performing Data Aggregation and Analysis

Defining Company/Distributor Interfaces

Creating Strategies for Portals, Exchanges and Direct Customer Interfaces

Identifying BPO Candidate Processes

Creating New Distribution Channels

Reference Diagrams
Since the IT Consulting services primarily focuses on making internal systems decisions that are impacted by events occurring outside the firewall, Swingtide focus its efforts on the upper portion of the Eco-System diagram as a reference. 


The following diagram highlights various internal systems that Swingtide Consultants might examine during an engagement.

 

IT Consulting Sample Services
Swingtide offers a variety of IT Consulting Services to help clients
attain maximum benefit from their application assets.  Through a unique combination of industry and technical experience, Swingtide can help financial services companies solve both strategic and tactical distribution related challenges.

IT Services Table
The following table includes a variety of sample IT Consulting services provided by Swingtide.

Sample Service

Description

Interface Assessment

Evaluating the strategy and status of the distributor facing applications, taking into account version, technology, processes and future plans.

Business Usage Analysis

Reviewing business activity, internally and beyond customer firewalls.

Workflow Streamlining

Streamlining workflow processes, such as uploading and downloading transactions, integrating computer and human exchanges, and optimizing external and internal processes.

Legacy Migration Strategies

Creating interface strategies and prioritizing business processes for technology upgrades.

Integration Strategies

Identifying infrastructure and application enhancement requirements to enable new levels of integration, enterprise transactions and decreased time-to-market for new products.

Company / Distributor Strategies

Creating technology strategies to better respond to external pressures from new and emerging distribution channel participants.

For more information on Swingtide's Insurance Consulting Services, please contact Swingtide at (603)431-7900 or email info@swingtide.com.

 

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