News Room
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Torus Implements Leading-Edge Claims Technology
Global Platform Increases Processing Efficiency; Meets London Market Electronic Endorsement Standards
Torus, the global specialty insurer, has announced the implementation of its new, state-of-the art claims management system, Guidewire ClaimCenter®, delivered by the UK’s number one Guidewire system integrator, Business Agility.
To replace multiple, legacy platforms, Torus has implemented ClaimCenter as its one global claims management system to support its entire product suite, standardising claims handling processes to deliver enhanced claims efficiency and improved speed and accuracy of claims payments for Torus customers worldwide.
“Our aim is to be a world class claims team,” said Rob Powell, Chief Claims Officer. “This initiative evidences our progress and allows us to demonstrate our success. The investment clearly shows Torus’ commitment to embed claims into the Torus brand. It underlines our willingness to pay philosophy.”
Torus selected Guidewire largely on the strength of ClaimCenter’s flexibility to manage claims globally across a diverse product portfolio. Importantly, this has allowed the system to be adapted to work directly with London Market Messages. This is especially timely given the recent pressure from Lloyd’s on London’s insurer and brokers to engage more fully with the electronic endorsements process.
“Torus is meeting and exceeding industry demands with regards to ECF2,” said Mr Powell.
“Working closely with Business Agility Group Ltd, ClaimCenter has been fully implemented and integrated with all Torus’ technology platforms in under twelve months,” said Michael Kim, Chief Administrative Officer.
Torus chose Business Agility as the technical implementers of the platform due to their experience, resources and reputation.
Roy Murphy, Managing Director of Business Agility said, “Unlike typical Systems Integrators, Business Agility is a niche consultancy with highly skilled and experienced Guidewire experts. Our focus is to make our clients successful and self-sufficient in as short a time as possible using optimum resources. We rely exclusively on the excellence of our services to fuel our future growth; this is reflected in our 100% track-record of successful engagements and our position as the number one Guidewire systems integrator in the UK.”
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011
Business Agility delivered their fifth event of 2011, entitled "Your one-way ticket out of Spreadsheet hell".
The event illustrated how to relieve the pain of multiple, manually compiled reports and how to produce a 'single version of the truth'.
The main point of interest was a 60 minute demonstration of SharePoint 2010 and its rich-rich capabilities when it comes to automating processes and enabling controls over your data. The demo and an overview of a recent case study sparked off a multitude of questions, which were ably handled by the Business Agility team.
The event was such a success that it will be run again as an online webinar - scheduled for 30 November 2011.
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Frontline, the UK’s biggest magazine distributor revolutionise their reporting
Frontline is the UK’s largest magazine sales, marketing and distribution company. The organisation sells and distributes over 160 magazine titles, including 58 of the top 200 best-selling titles in the UK*.
Their distribution model is focused on getting the right magazines, in the right numbers, into the right shops, at the right time.
With an enormous amount of data from many sources, including sales of titles, total sales of competitor titles and forecasting information, Frontline has to ensure they had a complete and consistent picture of performance at all times.
After a Business Performance Management project, Frontline began to work towards a vision where they drew together all the data describing performance and the market in which they operate into a single up to date, reliable, robust single version of the truth.
With an existing investment in SharePoint and Office 2010, Frontline were able to maximise their use of this technology and evaluate the Microsoft BI stack to see if it met their selection criteria.
Following attendance at a Business Agility BI education seminar, Paul Smirk, Commercial Analyst Controller for Frontline, invited Business Agility to visit the Frontline Head office to explore their specific requirements in more detail.
Following a successful Proof of Concept which proved SharePoint was fit for purpose, Business Agility installed and configured Frontline’s production SharePoint 2010 environment.
The new solution removes manual intervention, eliminates the risk of human error and improves the timeliness and robustness of the reported data. Frontline’s reports are no longer limited in terms of drill-through, and have the potential for processing millions of rows of data behind a familiar excel front-end; users are able to get a rapid response to their interrogations of the data.
Most reports are making use of the functionality in SharePoint 2010, such as slicers and Power Pivot. Future developments will look at developing reporting cubes, using Analysis Services and building interactive dashboards with performance point.
*(source: ABC)
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Business Agility paddles for Cancer Research
Every year Business Agility tackles a new challenge and tries to raise some money for a good cause along the way. And this year was no different.
On October 1st, deep in the wilderness of Herefordshire, a team of 12 people from Business Agility took to two-man canadian kayak canoes and paddled 24 miles - all for Cancer Research. It was a full day of (almost) non-stop paddling along the River Wye, and although it was a balmy 24 degrees and the scenery was beautiful the going was tough!
Even with a capsize, some running a-grounds and some water damaged iPhones, happily, at the end of 7 and half hours the entire team had crossed the finish line.
The total raised (and still rising) is £1,500. Thanks to all that supported us!
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Webinar - The 9 most important considerations when upgrading to SP 2010
On Friday 3rd June, Business Agility ran a webinar designed to illustrate the most important considerations an organisation should take into account when evaluating SharePoint 2010. This free webinar is now available as a recorded session and can be accessed in the Demo Room.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Enhanced SharePoint Support as a stand alone service
SharePoint support and maintenance can now be utilised as a stand alone service from Business Agility. Business Agility has been delivering end-to-end solutions since 1997. After the successful delivery of a project Business Agility usually remains in partnership with the client to provide continuing support.
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Business Intelligence in the Cloud – EXCLUSIVE SEMINAR
As the premier provider of Business Intelligence solutions through the Microsoft BI technology stack, Business Agility is delighted to announce it is hosting a new seminar – “Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Hosted SharePoint 2010”. The Seminar will actually take the format of 50% seminar and 50% workshop.
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Thursday, Jan 19, 2011
New from Business Agility - Trial SharePoint in the Cloud for 30 days
As a Microsoft Online Services Partner, Business Agility is pleased to offer your organisation the opportunity to trial Microsoft Online SharePoint for 30-days. SharePoint Online brings together the familiar SharePoint collaboration platform delivered as an online service making the power of the cloud work for your business.
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Friday, Dec 11, 2010
Business Agility delivers "exceptionally engaging" seminar on the Microsoft BI stack
On 8th December, the Business Agility team gave an in-depth presentation on Microsoft’s BI stack and how it compares to other BI solutions. Once again the event was oversubscribed and the room was filled to capacity with delegates and organisations from a wide spectrum of industries, such as retail, publics sector, pharmaceuticals, insurance and banking. It’s this mix of industries that illustrates the common ground most businesses find themselves on these days – namely to maximise the use of their existing business data.