The Innovation Group, a provider of business process outsourcing(BPO) and software solutions to the insurance, fleet, automotiveand property industries, releases Insurer Configurator, a newcomponent of the Innovation Insurer suite.

Insurer Configurator is a suite of programs and services, alongwith a configuration toolset, that allows insurers to create,maintain, support, and control the deployment of configurationinformation for the Innovation Insurer suite of products. InsurerConfigurator is backward compatible, enabling the decoupling ofbusiness logic from insurance applications, thereby significantlyreducing deployment time through extensive use of inheritance.

“Insurer Configurator is a critical component of the InnovationInsurer suite, breaking legacy history with a robust, 'built forchange' set of tools that will enable agility and flexibilityacross a wide array of areas, shifting control and work from IT tothe business and providing configuration to eliminate the need forcustomization,” says Andy Roberts, CEO of Innovation Group.“Insurer Configurator is a key element in our 'Rule of One' design,providing a single data model, rules engine, process engine, andconfiguration toolset. More importantly, it will help facilitatetransition from older versions of Insurer while providing immediatebusiness value.”

Insurer Configurator has been used to support large scaleprojects with, complex product configurations, in multiplecompanies across a variety of distribution channels utilizing aSaaS deployment model. The configuration lifecycle and areas ofconfiguration are managed by Insurer Configurator, and controlledusing the work-package and release management capabilitiesproviding source control style functions with full audit-abilityacross the system.

Insurer Configurator features functionality and deliversbusiness value through:

• Compliance and Risk Management: Full audit-ability across thesystem for changes and data, different brands or companies tosupport Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and other regulations.
• Business Agility: Respond quicker to market changes, M&A,distribution options, new products, product changes, market growthopportunities and customer demands with the robust, flexibleconfiguration.
• Work-Package Management: All changes are made against awork-package that controls what is changed, by whom, withversioning automatically controlled and a full historymaintained.
• Release Management: When implementing configuration changes,the tool provides the mechanism to select individual changes forrelease and identifies any dependencies between work packages toensure consistency and accuracy.