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Xchanging to Partner with Microsoft: £7.5 Million Investment in GENIUS Insurance Solution
24 Feb 2006
LONDON, 24 February 2006 – Xchanging, the global business processing services company, has announced a 3-year, £7.5 million investment programme and a partnership with Microsoft, in the continuing development of Genius, the pre-eminent general insurance business processing solution.
The pressure on insurers is more intense than ever, with highly competitive markets and an increasingly demanding regulatory regime, driven by Sarbanes-Oxley and the FSA. Insurance companies are striving to improve customer focus and meet the heightened reporting requirements. Xchanging's service-oriented technology architecture is a method of building business processes through the linking together of a number of related services into a comprehensive business solution. This approach allows Genius to be rapidly adapted to the new regulatory environment and readily tailored to facilitate new business opportunities.
John Sullivan, Chief Information Officer for XL Insurance operations, said: "Insurance companies cannot prosper without having adaptable technology systems underpinning their service delivery. These systems need to be flexible while delivering a robust solution that can satisfy the regulators. Xchanging understands this and with this investment in new technology, Genius will be able to provide the required flexibility while delivering proven business functionality that I need for the XL Insurance IT infrastructure."
Xchanging will improve upon this class-leading business functionality by deploying Genius on a Microsoft .NET platform, making it relevant to a wider community of insurance users.
Gordon Ejsmond-Frey, EMEA insurance industry manager at Microsoft, said, “This is a fantastic commitment by Xchanging to Microsoft’s technologies. By combining Xchanging’s deep expertise in the insurance industry with Microsoft’s proven technologies, we can offer insurers flexible, open solutions for all of their processing needs, allowing them to grow their business and meet regulatory requirements.”
Modern insurance companies now demand increased levels of service and flexibility and Genius is being enhanced to exceed these requirements. Xchanging will future-proof existing customers' investment and give them a choice of web services architectures in the future.