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How the Insurance Industry Is Embracing Digital Transformation

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Manohar Parakh
How the Insurance Industry Is Embracing Digital Transformation

The insurance industry is gaining benefits of digital transformation in several ways to mitigate the complex challenges that the industry faces from consumers, regulatory and digital landscapes. The leaders in this industry are looking to develop digital enterprise portals that can be built to meet future needs.

Benefits of DX to Insurance Companies

i. Easy Comparison

A key benefit of digitization for customers present in the insurance industry includes the availability of a self-service model. The customers today are defined as being present on “omnichannel”. The customers research the products online and then discuss with their closed ones using social media to gain some recommendations rather than going for buying through retail locations. 

ii. Self-serviced Dashboards

The self-serviced dashboards have made it easier for the customers to decrypt the complicated insurance policies, calculate monthly premiums. These options are going to have a significant impact on the customer’s longer-term financial future and plans. The complicated coverage costs of the policies can now be virtually seen, thereby, helping the customers to understand the change rates and determining the best plans. Digitization also helps in making it easier for tracking the growing speed of their policies.

iii. Advanced Analytics

The insurance companies are using advanced analytics to gain insights on the needs and preferences of their customers. Advanced analytics also offer the insurance providers and customers to tackle fraudulent claims by building a superior system to detect the frauds by using big data analytics.

Phases of DX in Insurance

Insurance companies have begun their seamless transformation to the digital insurance providers with the help of a phased roadmap. They’re assessing their current situations, systems, and infrastructure for planning out which processes and part of businesses need to be moved to the digital landscape. This has proved to be of great help, as it helps the insurance firms in prioritizing the investments and thereby building digital workplaces built for future needs.

The phases in which digital transformation takes place in the insurance industry can be classified as-

1. Evolving: 

Insurance firms have just begun to recognize the potential of digital transformation. They work on several initiatives for automating their processes and calibrating the business model to meet their business requirements.

2. Matured: 

Insurance firms use advanced technologies and enterprise portal solutions for integrating emerging trends for rapid product development and launch.

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