GCAN Grabs ISI's WebWriter Enterprise
Insurance Systems Inc. (ISI), a provider of Web-based enterprise solutions for property/casualty insurers, says GCAN Insurance has successfully implemented its WebWriter Enterprise product as part of a large-scale legacy modernization project.
Toronto-based GCAN Insurance went live with ISI's WebWriter Enterprise for the company's professional errors and omissions (E&O) line of business in May 2010. Professional E&O is the first line of the company's portfolio to go live with WebWriter Enterprise. Additional lines are planned to go live later this year as a part of the next phase of the company's complete legacy modernization.
"When GCAN went looking for a system, technology, flexibility and pre-integration were our main selection criteria," says Mark Cairns, VP and chief information technology officer for GCAN. "ISI exceeded our expectations in all of these areas, and ultimately delivered a solution which has increased our level of efficiency and made life much easier for our users."
Aon Integrates BWise Platform
Chicago-based Aon Corp. will use the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) platform, from New York-based BWise Inc. Aon involved both its Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) management and IT risk management departments in its search for a platform, and will begin the integration by implementing its SOX compliance and global information security policies and procedures.
"Distinct departments came together here at Aon and understood the value of choosing a GRC management solution that could benefit both departments," says Alfred Jongejan, director of corporate finance. "Aon has found with the BWise GRC platform a way to integrate and converge several of our corporate initiatives together efficiently and economically."
Aon says it will use the BWise program to perform control testing, and to review and assess test findings.
EGI Insurance Selects iPartners' Scorecard
EGI Insurance Services Inc. (EGI), a Cumming, Ga.-based subsidiary of EGI Financial Holdings, has chosen Alpharetta, Ga.-based iPartners' underwriting program Insurance Scorecard to help manage the claims process for its recently hatched U.S. operation.
"Today's competitive market conditions make business intelligence a critical component for a start-up business like ours," says Troy Druhot, SVP, EGI. "You have to be an agile organization, and be able to quickly identify what's working and what's not in order to make timely and necessary adjustments to the products and the operation. Add in the software as a service delivery of the iPartners system and we have the benefit of tremendous BI capabilities at a very attractive price point."
Insurance Scorecard, a Software-as-a-Service analytics program, features include performance maintenance dashboards and scorecards, ad-hoc detailed analysis, production reporting, and drill to detail.
Southern Pioneer Lassos ISCS Policy Admin Suite
Jonesboro, Ark.-based Southern Pioneer Property & Casualty Insurance Co. adopted the SurePower Innovation Policy Administration Suite from San Jose, Calif.-based ISCS.
Southern Pioneer wanted to simplify cross-company reporting and enforce consistency in policies across its lines of business, including homeowners', dwelling fire, vacant dwelling fire, garage liability, commercial property and liquor liability.
"SurePower Innovation allows us to provide our agents with additional tools and support to serve our policyholders," said Brian Hyneman, secretary and treasurer for Southern Pioneer. "It will also help us become more efficient in our operations."
