Insurance Data Porting & Migration

Certificate Exchange service facilitates the issuance of insurance certificates and offers a new and different approach to the time-consuming task of certificates issuing and tracking.Certificate Exchange is the leader in functionality and easy of use of certificate of insurance programs. The program encompasses features for of the vastly different requirements of all size firms and industries and employs governance features to prevent issuance of unauthorized certificates. The program is used by agents, brokers, direct writers and insureds and can be branded to look like the Producer's or Insured's Web site.

Scope

The major goal of the project was to free the system from the very rare and circumscriptive K/KSQL/KDB technology, causing both support problems (due to the fact that very few specialists in the world were familiar with it), and significant development and functionality growth difficulties.

Solution

Deep research of the issue brought both Azoft and the customer to the decision to port the system to a more recognized and conventional technology. Having performed a complex analysis of all factors, the Sun Java technology along with Postgres database was chosen. In favor of the technologies were the cost, performance, and their major distribution at the enterprise market.

Implementation of the project was a highly challenging task for the Azoft, basically due to scarce documentation available, and complex business logic which predetermined system’s architecture and performance specificities.

Outcome

Thanks to the intense research and highly effective development procedure, which included analysis of original legacy system, prototyping, development, data migration as well as several cycles of performance tuning and optimization, the new system built on proven Java 2 SE technologies approached and surpassed the Kx system’s performance. The new system inherited the previous version’s PDF-based document workflow, however, enhanced and simplified by third party components suggested by our engineers.

The new system was successfully launched in 2005, and patented in 2008. Complete users and data migration finished in 2006, when Azoft signed a new contract for maintenance and further development of the online insurance system, which has an immense potential of functionality to be extended.

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