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The core transformation investments of many insurance companies stand unrealized to their maximum value, and are eventually leading their operational capabilities into the 21st century. It seems eminent to shift focus on digital strategies to fuel growth in such scenario. The digital strategies envelop everything from communicating with clients to managing social media to search engine optimization.It is vital for insurance companies to have a good intranet and extranet platform to address their pressing business need. The linchpin of insurance company’s digital strategy is the portal that allows to a achieve all the objectives at one go
Benefits of Portal
Portals make it easier for employees, captive agents, independent agents to access their policyholders’ details from central server with like products, billing history, claims, etc. A good portal also equips its users with easy-to-use interface and dashboard personalization. For example: a user can update their personal details, information about their owned policies, billing transactions, claims, etc. They act as a single-window for simple & quick online policy purchase, easy filing of claims, policy renewals, E-proofs etc.
For Policyholders
Account Opening: Supports simple and integrated account opening. For instance, to open an account, users need only an ID and password, to simply signup without purchasing a policy
Online Policy Purchase: Simple & quick online purchase, easy claim settlement, policy renewal, e-proofs.
Personalized User Data: Policyholder can access following information
Policy details
Fund price information(including push notifications)
Account information(investment linked accounts)
Personal information
Advisor information
For Captive Agents
Helps captive agents measure their performance and maintain their relationships with policyholders.
Captures policyholders’ interactions and information, leading to improved communication and relationship management
Enables cross-selling based on the profile and need of policyholder
For Independent Agents
Supports agents’ business transactions with carriers and maintaining relationships with policyholders
Provides the ability to view and manage personalized incentives and compensation reports.
For Service Center Personnel
Enables better client service
Supports account services such as billing plan updates and payment reconciliations
Supports agent licensing with state insurance departments and facilitates appointment between agents and potential/existing policyholders.
For Sales
Product Information including new products
Target based marketing with personalized offers
Auto notification of portal activity to the advisor (potential sales events)
Promotion of annual checkup
Communication
Secure email channel to enable most service transactions and provide an easy route for non-urgent communication
Outbound email campaign to drive users to the portal (see related articles)
Integrate with SMS
Customer surveys
The portal allow role-based access to employees. While it provides secure channel for internal communication, it also allows community based discussion platform for organization and its stakeholders. The tag based search functionality helps in quick search through content making it a centralized knowledge base.
Various technologies can be leveraged to build portals for Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Automobile Insurance, Electronic Gadgets Insurance, property & Casualty Insurance, etc. Leading technologies are listed below:
Liferay
IBM WebSphere Portal.
Oracle WebCenter Portal.
SAP NetWeaver
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