-- Visual effects where drop-down lists in information requests better reflect the insurers' business relationships and hierarchies -- Preferred defaults, so users see the best context for that information -- Enhanced search capabilities to provide easier filtering of large drop- down lists like agent, provider, or county -- Ability to recall previous requests and evolve in real time -- Off-line analytics capabilities, enabling brokers, and traveling staff to perform property and casualty analytics without connecting to the serverHeightened competition brought on by the challenging economy is driving insurers to save money now, while improving strategic use of information to reduce loss ratios over time. To accommodate this market trend, IPF is offered as four components that can be acquired one at a time or all together. As a modular solution IPF can complement existing insurance data warehouse efforts or deliver a complete data warehouse and BI solution. This flexibility differs from traditional insurance frameworks, because it means IPF can be implemented in months, not years. The four components of IPF include:
-- Executive performance-oriented key performance indicators -- Management reporting frameworks -- Insurance data model (detail to summary full dimensional model) -- Prebuilt insurance data movement services (ETL) to load data model"It's our goal to help users be more self-sufficient to not only take the burden off IT and keep costs low, but also give each user the ability to be a more active and valuable contributor to the organization," said Information Builders founder and CEO Gerald Cohen. "Our deep property and casualty expertise continues to provide insurers with rapid options and powerful segmentation to lower expense ratios." IPF now supports workers compensation and surety insurers in addition to personal, commercial, and excess and surplus lines. The solution is available immediately with flexible pricing options, which range from as low as $250K for just the data model to $500K for the full package solution. About Information Builders Information Builders' award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world's most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders' iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. Information Builders' customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at http://www.informationbuilders.com.
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