P&C insurance technology's evolution has cycled through a handful of phases since the mid-1960s, each clearly defined with their own focus and outcomes.

The "north star" of system design in the first phase, the "transaction era," focused on capturing financial data with mainframe/client-server systems. While monolithic and inflexible, these systems enabled the standardization of insurance products.

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