Case study for policy administration solution in the short-term insurance industry
More and more insurers are investing in modernising their policy administration capabilities, but joint research by SMA and Insurance & Technology has found that projects remain challenged because of poor understanding of needed business capabilities, deficient project management and over-reliance on outside expertise.
Industry
Short-term insurance
Client
A well renowned South African short-term insurance company
Service
Software development
Business Challenge
Our client is a large financial services group that is headquartered in South Africa and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Our client needed to design, develop and release a replacement policy administration system to replace the current old technology. A multi-year project, of which lines are already live and being progressively rolled out to brokers and agents.
DVT Solution
DVT assisted our client through a skills augmentation service. DVT provided software development professional services that ensured our client had a high performing software development team that can deliver business value faster in Scrum Agile Sprints. DVT utilised Scrum Masters and Java developer consultants on the assignment.
Technologies
- Java/JDK-based dev language (GOSU)
- Scrum
- Useful tools in Java (JDK 7, Vaadin, Hibernate, etc)
- Tomcat
- Bamboo
- Jira
- Confluence
- Fisheye
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