Insurance

Overview

In order to stay competitive insurance companies must have visibility into every facet of their business. In order to maximize profitability and returns they need a comprehensive view across claims, customer service, the workforce, and performance management in order to make the right decisions fast.

To maintain profitability in the face of escalating risks, insurers also need to be able to manage conflicting priorities, tackle compliance issues quickly, maximize operational efficiency, growth, and product offerings, and serve customers more effectively than the competition. They need this kind of visibility, but in an environment of legacy systems, inter-related processes, and scale operations good decisions can be elusive. That's why leading insurers trust Cognos, an IBM company, to provide:

The Right Technology and Solutions

Cognos integrated performance management software and services deliver value to the world's largest insurance companies. By helping them bring together all of their data assets across the organization via reports, analysis, scorecards, plans, budgets and more Cognos enables them to:

Manage captive and independent agents to improve performance by aligning decisions with strategy and data by combining strategic planning, timely monitoring, and deep analytical capabilities. With Cognos, insurance companies can also communicate priorities enterprise-wide with cascading scorecards, engage front-line sales and service managers with the planning process, and get everyone operating from a single version of the truth.
Manage risk and compliance more effectively by efficiently managing multiple reporting and consolidation standards such as IAS and U.S.-based GAAP; inter-company elimination and reconciliation; multicurrency translation; complex ownership calculations, and financial consolidation rules.
Care for customers by allowing more transparency or visibility into the claims process insurers are able to provide better customer service and see where they are missing service targets.
Reduce costs and increase efficiency creating a self-service reporting platform that reduces the demand on IT while enabling insurers to make more timely decisions on claims, quickly analyze sales agent performance, and serve customers more efficiently.
Make Planning Easier by augmenting or replacing cumbersome spreadsheet-based systems with flexible, connected planning software that reduces consolidation, close, and reporting cycles by days or weeks.

The Fastest Methods

Insurance organizations have no time to waste in implementing software to achieve maximum value and ROI. That’s why only Cognos offers IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints to address planning and performance management process areas that directly impact an organization’s ability to create business value. Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process and policy models based on proven best-practices in insurance planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

New! Find out more about The IBM Cognos Insurance Product Performance Blueprint

The Requisite Experience:

Many of the leading players in insurance already choose Cognos, including

Six of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.
Seven of the top 10 insurance companies in the US.

In addition, Cognos was recently recognized by Insurance Networking News and IDC Financial Insights with awards in the category of "Keeping Insurers Informed Through Analytics". In this ranking, insurers were asked to name the technology firms that truly assist their varied operations across nine different application or business categories, and they put Cognos at the top of the list.

Find out more about:

The IBM Cognos Insurance Product Profitability Performance Blueprint Business Value Guide
Read how this Blueprint allows business analysts, product managers, and finance executives to report on and analyze profitability, and to plan initiatives to improve business segment results.
IBM Cognos Insurance Product Profitability Performance Blueprint Demo
See for yourself how this Blueprint can help your organization create business segment profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets by product line, product, and brand.
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Additional Resources:

Cognos and Risk Management: Managing Risk Through Business Intelligence

Online Demo

See how business intelligence can help you analyze and report on risk exposure in your company.

Performance Management for Insurance

Fact Sheet

Read how Cognos helps leaders in the insurance sector-including six of the top 10 insurance companies in the world-manage risk and improve profit.

Assessing Property/Casualty Insurers’ Use of Business Analytics

Analyst Report

Find out how insurers are using analytics to set goals, metric and measures for success and strengthen competitive advantage in pricing, marketing, customer service and more.

Better Planning for Insurance Companies

White Paper

Find out the technology and best practices for more effective planning in insurance.

Insurance Product Profitability

Business Value Guide

Read how the IBM Cognos Insurance Product Profitability Performance Blueprint helps insurers create business segment profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets by product line, product, and brand.

The Risk-Based Early Warning System

Analyst Report

What does the future hold for your business—stagnation and gradual decline, or constant, aggressive growth? In the second of a provocative series of articles, David Axson and Gregory Hackett explain how the finance organization can help businesses assess and address risk.

Insurance Product Performance Blueprint

Online Demo

See for yourself how this Blueprint can help your organization create business segment profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets by product line, product, and brand.

Rapid Scorecarding for financial services

White Paper

Find out the value of scorecarding and the five key steps to creating an effective one.