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Digital transformation in the insurance industry

12 Sep 2017

Digital developments are moving at lightning speed, and that applies to the insurance industry as well. We left the days of retyping forms by hand behind us long ago; with today's technology we have apps that consumers can use to report a claim. More and more information from outside has to be processed. This means that organisations have different needs when it comes to digitisation. What does modern data exchange look like at our insurers?

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Development of the new EC-Design starts in 2017

16 Jun 2017

Our message modelling tool, EC-Design, is being renewed. That creates opportunities for new functionality. We are continuously developing EC-Design, because new standards and user requirements keep coming in. But we think the time has come to give EC-Design a significant upgrade. With it we bring renewal and change, and the most important added value is that EC-Design can be used even more widely!

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XBRL is a complex standard, what does practice show?

05 May 2017

In February I attended an international conference that was entirely devoted to XBRL. With a diverse audience from several countries, we enthusiastically discussed XBRL as the standard for data exchange with the government. It was striking that most talks and discussions dwelt on the process around XBRL, and not on the technology and implementation of the standard. When XBRL is discussed, I often notice that in-depth knowledge is missing and that the conversation is not based on practice. Yet that conversation about practice and implementation is badly needed…

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Exchanging data according to the All Finance Data Catalogue (AFD)

12 Sep 2016

There is more and more electronic communication between insurance companies and third parties. To do this in an unambiguous way, the All Finance Data Catalogue (AFD) is the most important standard. It is a good thing that this standard exists! That is why Digitect, together with Comparity, is organising an AFD masterclass on 12 October.

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The digital highway of the insurance industry

14 Apr 2016

The digital highway of the insurance industry has developed at lightning speed in recent years. Where forms used to be retyped by hand, there are now apps that consumers can use to report a claim. Where digitisation used to be mainly about processes within the organisation, information from outside now has to be processed as well.

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