Coretech Insight Report: Insurers Can See Up to $25M Revenue Gain

A Coretech Insight Study Commissioned by Socotra

Insurers know that speed and agility are key to growth. But they struggle to quantify the value of investing in new technologies in terms of speed-to-market and revenue. To address this challenge, Coretech Insight, an independent advisory firm focused on core technology for the insurance industry, conducted a breakthrough study modeling three real-world scenarios to assess the economic value of speed-to-market, using publicly available industry and government data and validation by senior industry participants.

The analysis compared product launches for incumbent systems against new cloud-native agile platforms and found that insurers that launch products faster by deploying cloud agile technology are able to generate a revenue gain of as much as $25 million over five years.

What will you learn from this report? You’ll get the detailed information supporting these results and learn how findings like these were determined in this analysis:

  • The benefits of shorter time-to-market exceeded the costs of implementing and operating new cloud technology by a wide margin—as much as 40 times the cost of implementation.
  • Cloud agile technology can trim product launch times to a matter of months versus typical timeframes of a year to 18 months for outdated systems.
  • Cloud agile platform product launches enable insurers to capture revenue that would otherwise be lost to extended launch timeframes.
  • Insurers are forfeiting millions of dollars in new premiums due to delays common with incumbent systems.

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How Socotra Offers Modern UI and Portals for Insurance

Socotra is known as the most powerful billing and policy technology in the industry. Our platform has the industry’s most flexible, complete, coherent, open, and accessible data model, so that it can fully and accurately represent your business. It has the industry’s most robust cloud infrastructure with the highest published availability. It deploys in the least time, has the lowest maintenance costs, and connects most easily with AI and third-party software.

We match these industry-leading capabilities with an industry-leading set of user interfaces (UIs).

Insurers need very different things from core technology vs. UI technology, so Socotra has modularized and independently optimized both. In contrast, monolithic vendors sell core and UI technology that are difficult to separate and therefore not optimized for insurers’ needs.

Looking closer at some of the ways in which needs and optimal solutions for core and UI technology differ, examples include:

Socotra is the most ecosystem-friendly platform in policy administration, delivering open APIs and an app marketplace that makes installing a pre-built integration as easy as adding an app to a smartphone. Our partners include providers of modern user interfaces, which our customers have easily integrated with Socotra. We also partner with low-code and no-code UI providers, which offer intuitive platforms for building fresh user interfaces.

Socotra Offers a Full Spectrum of User Interfaces

Socotra’s Productized Interfaces

You need UIs to build, test, and run your business from day one. Socotra offers key productized interfaces out of the box and ready to use for proof of concepts, implementation, and go live. These receive weekly, zero-downtime upgrades like Socotra policy and billing cores, so that you can take advantage of new features and enhancements both in the UI and headless via API.

Socotra System Manager
Manage your Socotra business account, tenants, and users, including roles and permissions. Easily create, configure, and manage tenants based on geography or business needs.

Socotra Configuration Studio
Configure and manage any insurance product using flexible building blocks that can handle the most complex structure, business logic, and scenarios. Seamlessly manage product variations for different locations, risk appetites, and partners using a central definition.

Socotra Operations Workbench
Policy administrators, underwriters, and customer service representatives can easily conduct sales and servicing of policyholder accounts, quotes, and policies. This includes underwriting workflows to manage new business, renewals, and endorsements. Insurers prioritizing speed-to-market and cost savings can avoid custom UI development with this out-of-the-box interface.

Socotra Reporting Workbench
Understand the state of your business with out-of-the-box dashboards and visualizations. With dashboards and high-performance queries, Socotra lets you leverage your data from day one. Our in-product visualizations and reports put key business metrics at your fingertips. See key operational metrics as pre-built dashboards, or pull them via API. Get executive-level data points without data engineering.

Portal Partners
Socotra has a robust ecosystem of technology partners delivering solutions for everything from payments to data sources. Among these partners are providers of pre-built portals, such as Federato which delivers a high-quality underwriting workbench to Socotra’s customers.

Custom Interfaces with Socotra

Your unique needs might defy any off-the-shelf UI. Because Socotra is built to operate headless, insurers have unlimited power to craft any interface you wish. Socotra’s open APIs and documentation make it easy for you and your system integrator partners to connect your existing portals to Socotra or build net new.

Socotra Producer Portal
Create a differentiated portal for producers to easily sell and service policies, using Socotra’s reference implementation as a starting point. This reference implementation is built on Socotra’s UI SDK, which accelerates development timelines by providing commonly used components like forms out of the box.

Low-Code / No-Code Portal Partners
Build any UI you want using the power, ease, and flexibility of low-code and no-code UI tools. Among Socotra’s customers, many have custom interfaces built using Socotra partners ManageMy, Mendix or Unqork.

Legacy Interface
If you already have a UI, you can connect to Socotra using Socotra’s APIs. You can also use the Socotra UI SDK to embed pre-made Socotra components that dynamically update to reflect product definitions.

New Custom Interface
In addition to offering pre-built UIs, Socotra provides the ultimate flexibility for customers who want the ability to create an entirely custom interface. Build entirely from scratch, or use the UI SDK to accelerate your development using pre-made Socotra components.

“Headless” Operation With No Interface
Because all Socotra’s APIs are open, some insurers use it with no user interface at all! Socotra connects easily to aggregators, affinity/distribution partners, automations, and AI.

AI-Generated UI for Rapid Prototyping
Insurers can use generative AI to build a prototype UI and integrate it with Socotra—all in a matter of days.