2023/03/19
This report in the Health Policy Administration series focuses on the perceptions of the insurers in their vendors. In the lead report, Celent s…
Research related to SymbioSys (Health PAS)
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2023/03/08Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
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2022/12/21Health insurers are no longer simply paying medical bills and underwriting health. They are also supporting customers in various times of their…
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2022/09/28This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2022/08/05What is Takaful Insurance? Takaful, often referred to as 'Islamic insurance', is a way for businesses to mitigate the financial risk of unforese…
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2022/07/13Some loyal readers may be surprised by my authorship of a blog post. I suppose this my reintroduction to Celent. Prior to mid-2020, I led the Am…
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2021/06/30Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2021/06/07In June 2020, Celent published its second global health policy administration system vendor report. In the framework of this report, we asked he…
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2021/05/17Health insurance is undergoing big changes where technology has a significant impact. Health insurers are increasingly looking at ways to improv…
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2021/03/03Insurers are choosing other approaches to technology modernization than just going with the traditional industrial approach where you build a ne…
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2020/12/18The increasing importance of APIs in financial services has moved the middle layer to a customer facing role. Historically such layers were hidd…
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2020/12/02The usage of legacy data sources combined with new alternative data sources are transforming underwriting, policy application approval, and issu…
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2020/08/29Conversations in innovation strategy deployments has seen plug-and-play and APIs as the common solution for shipping and serving modular contain…
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2020/08/24As we come to grips with the events at the turn of a new decade, there is never a better opportunity to re-imagine current business processes an…
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2020/07/05Natural language processing (NLP) is the technique to provide semantics to information extracted from optical character recognition engines and…
Research related to SymbioSys New business and Underwriting
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2023/04/05After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
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2023/03/21Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
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2022/12/12Have you wondered what changes were implemented for underwriting during the pandemic and how life insurance underwriting changed over the past t…
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2022/11/30COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
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2022/11/29Since the onset of COVID-19, the life insurance industry had to make some dramatic changes. The pandemic forced life insurers to digitize rapidl…
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2022/09/13Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
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2022/08/18In this report, we look at how data solutions play a role to provide support for actuary and underwriting functions in the insurance value chain…
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2022/04/11As part of Celent's Innovation and Insight Week 2022, a roundtable was conducted for the data, analytics, and AI theme on the topic of 'Data Inn…
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2021/11/17
Not long ago insurers were resistant (or, at best hesitant) to move legacy data and applications to any place outside of the control of their ow…
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2021/10/21Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
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2021/05/25Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
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2021/04/21
Elon Musk once said “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough". When I reflect on our work here at Celent,…
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2021/04/06Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent executive research panel. Several members of the NA L&H panel queried about digital…
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2021/03/25Alternative data sources would provide insurers with additional data that complement internal organizational or policyholders’ information. It w…
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2021/03/11
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
Research related to MicroSys (MicroInsurance Solution)
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2021/06/30
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2021/03/20
As with most emerging technology, DLT’s initial hype has led to a clearer understanding of its real potential and shortcomings. For now, its pro…
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2020/08/24
As we come to grips with the events at the turn of a new decade, there is never a better opportunity to re-imagine current business processes an…
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2020/04/24Insurtechs and innovation are the disruptors of the insurance world, and in Singapore, there is a unique group of insurtech companies that seek…
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2020/03/24The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
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2019/10/31InsureTech Connect is the world’s largest insurtech event and this document was created for Celent customers interested in insurtech and innovat…
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2018/04/24Celent has named the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) as Model Insurer of the Year for 2018. The Microinsurance Catastrophe…
Research related to SymbioSys (Life PAS)
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2023/11/23What is a life policy administration system? What life insurers use them for? What do they think of their components, features and functions? Do…
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2023/09/12Without a doubt, the pandemic spurred digital investment and CIOs started spending money on updating old technologies. Celent’s ongoing conversa…
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2023/08/08Using data from Celent's biennial North American policy administration solution (PAS) review, Celent drills down on the customer feedback to giv…
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2023/07/06Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/07/05This report is the fourth in Celent’s biennial look at group and voluntary policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in Nor…
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2023/07/04In this ninth installment of Celent's biennial look at policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in North America, we profi…
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2023/07/02Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/07/02Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/06/04Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2023/03/08
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
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2022/09/28
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2022/08/05
What is Takaful Insurance? Takaful, often referred to as 'Islamic insurance', is a way for businesses to mitigate the financial risk of unforese…
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2022/03/18The global pandemic forced many insurers to accelerate the digitalization of their businesses. This came with a record number of policy administ…
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2022/03/09The last two years have seen life insurers move from complete uncertainty as to how to handle the change COVID thrust upon them to them making t…
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2022/02/27Celent profiles 19 PAS in use or being marketed for the administration of North America group and voluntary life protection products, annuities,…
Research related to SymbioSys Sales Tool (POS)
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2022/09/25A digital point-of-sale (“POS”) platform offers consumers the ability to buy life insurance online instantly. These cloud-based platforms are ma…
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2022/05/31COVID-19 created lasting changes in the distribution of life insurance. The evolution of direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales was slow until the pande…
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2022/03/04Embedded finance is reshaping the way customers engage with financial products and expanding the distribution of tools and services that banks,…
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2021/06/30
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2021/03/11
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
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2021/03/03
Insurers are choosing other approaches to technology modernization than just going with the traditional industrial approach where you build a ne…
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2020/04/27As we head forward into 2020, we are witnessing common acceptance for remote delivery and communication, whereby both client-relationships and i…
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2020/04/24
Insurtechs and innovation are the disruptors of the insurance world, and in Singapore, there is a unique group of insurtech companies that seek…
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2020/02/23In this report, we look at insurance claims and healthcare use cases for image recognition. Due to the synergy between insurance and healthcare,…
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2020/01/20At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
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2019/10/31
InsureTech Connect is the world’s largest insurtech event and this document was created for Celent customers interested in insurtech and innovat…
Research related to SymbioSys Sales & In-force Illustration
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2023/11/03.At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and…
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2023/11/02At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and w…
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2023/06/04
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2022/09/28
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2020/12/092020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/11/302020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/10/02Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
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2020/07/05
Natural language processing (NLP) is the technique to provide semantics to information extracted from optical character recognition engines and…
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2020/03/24
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
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2019/03/18System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
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2018/10/29A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
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2016/09/23
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
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2016/08/25
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
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2016/08/24
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
Research related to SymbioSys Distribution Management Solution (DMS)
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2022/10/24Celent conducted a survey of producers with a set of questions covering management issues related to the use of technology, digital transformati…
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2022/08/10Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
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2022/08/10Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
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2021/09/29Shifting customer expectations are creating a new need for new business models. As the current workforce ages, insurers are exploring new distri…
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2021/07/19Insurers that use independent agents know that high production is correlated with strong relationships. But the world of the independent agent i…
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2020/07/26Managing agent licensing is a business-critical function for insurers and agencies. But as insurers and agencies look to grow, they face increas…
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2020/01/20
At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
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2019/09/10Managing the variety and innovation in a global distribution environment increasingly requires 'digital tools' and capabilities that allow insur…
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2019/05/14Managing the variety and dynamism in a distribution environment that is increasingly digital requires tools that allow insurers to deal with a v…
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2018/10/18The new era of customer-centricity in insurance applies to agents just as much as it applies to policyholders. Many insurers are focusing their…
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2016/08/17
Celent has released a new report titled Onboarding in Corporate Transaction Banking: Prioritizing Investments for Reducing Friction. The report…
Research related to Agent POS Platforms
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2024/03/27Life insurers were forced to digitize the sales process during the pandemic. Their move to direct-to-consumer sales (D2C) saw its peak (7+% of t…
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2023/09/11For the first several years of the insurtech movement, the conventional wisdom from the tech-industry founders looking to disrupt insurance was…
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2021/09/29
Shifting customer expectations are creating a new need for new business models. As the current workforce ages, insurers are exploring new distri…
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2021/07/12In 2018 ING embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine application development and drive change within an agile, at-scale transformation frame…
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2021/06/30
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2020/09/17Providing the right cover in a timely manner to customers is an increasing challenge both for underwriters and brokers. Mphasis shared some of t…