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BizCover Accelerates Data Connectivity by 90% with Fivetran

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Electrical Grids Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Usage-Based Insurance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	BizCover, Australia’s largest online business insurance provider, was facing a significant challenge in connecting data from various sources. The company's team of engineers had to build unique connectors using their own code, each requiring 40 to 80 hours of engineering time. This approach initially worked when connecting and syncing data from their database and Google Analytics. However, as the number of data sources increased, the task became overwhelming. BizCover needed to pull data from over 20 data sources into its centralized Snowflake data warehouse, with each source requiring its own connector. The company’s data engineers were managing this largely manual process, and BizCover needed to disseminate the insights they were gaining from the data across the core business more efficiently. Read More
About Customer	BizCover is Australia’s largest online business insurance organization, with over 180,000 SMEs currently protecting their business through BizCover’s proprietary platform. Founded in 2008, BizCover disrupted the insurance market by creating an online service to simplify comparing and buying business insurance from some of Australia’s leading insurers. To date, over one million business insurance policies have been sold through the BizCover platform across Australia, New Zealand, and the US. BizCover also provides market-leading solutions to the General Insurance Broking Industry through their BizCover for Brokers and ExpressCover brands. Innovation is at the heart of BizCover, frequently incorporating digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and automation across its platform. Read More
Solution	In search of a solution to their data connectivity challenge, BizCover's Information Management team turned to Fivetran, a recommendation from Snowflake. After a successful proof-of-concept pilot run, the team found Fivetran's platform easy to use and the onboarding process straightforward. Fivetran also provided excellent support and documentation, answering all questions around data security. With Fivetran, the BizCover team was able to set up a connector in just 4-8 hours, a 90% decrease in time and cost. Fivetran’s turn-key automated alerts also minimized the risk of reporting or acting on inaccurate data. This allowed the team to focus on using the data instead of building their pipelines and connectors. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Electrical Grids

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Usage-Based Insurance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

BizCover, Australia’s largest online business insurance provider, was facing a significant challenge in connecting data from various sources. The company's team of engineers had to build unique connectors using their own code, each requiring 40 to 80 hours of engineering time. This approach initially worked when connecting and syncing data from their database and Google Analytics. However, as the number of data sources increased, the task became overwhelming. BizCover needed to pull data from over 20 data sources into its centralized Snowflake data warehouse, with each source requiring its own connector. The company’s data engineers were managing this largely manual process, and BizCover needed to disseminate the insights they were gaining from the data across the core business more efficiently.

About Customer

BizCover is Australia’s largest online business insurance organization, with over 180,000 SMEs currently protecting their business through BizCover’s proprietary platform. Founded in 2008, BizCover disrupted the insurance market by creating an online service to simplify comparing and buying business insurance from some of Australia’s leading insurers. To date, over one million business insurance policies have been sold through the BizCover platform across Australia, New Zealand, and the US. BizCover also provides market-leading solutions to the General Insurance Broking Industry through their BizCover for Brokers and ExpressCover brands. Innovation is at the heart of BizCover, frequently incorporating digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and automation across its platform.

Solution

In search of a solution to their data connectivity challenge, BizCover's Information Management team turned to Fivetran, a recommendation from Snowflake. After a successful proof-of-concept pilot run, the team found Fivetran's platform easy to use and the onboarding process straightforward. Fivetran also provided excellent support and documentation, answering all questions around data security. With Fivetran, the BizCover team was able to set up a connector in just 4-8 hours, a 90% decrease in time and cost. Fivetran’s turn-key automated alerts also minimized the risk of reporting or acting on inaccurate data. This allowed the team to focus on using the data instead of building their pipelines and connectors.

Impact #1	The implementation of Fivetran has brought significant operational benefits to BizCover. The process of connecting data sources is now streamlined in terms of time, people power, and cost. The analytics team can access the data they need within just a few hours. The benefits of Fivetran were established rapidly across the Information Management team and the whole organization. Previously, if something failed in the manual system, there were no alerts and inaccurate data would go undetected, ending up in the hands of decision makers. With Fivetran’s automated alerts, BizCover minimizes the risk of reporting or acting on inaccurate data. This has allowed the team to focus on using the data instead of building their pipelines and connectors. From Finance, Analytics, and IT to Product, Marketing, and Sales, any part of the business that needs reporting and business data has felt the benefits of Fivetran since its implementation.

Impact #1

The implementation of Fivetran has brought significant operational benefits to BizCover. The process of connecting data sources is now streamlined in terms of time, people power, and cost. The analytics team can access the data they need within just a few hours. The benefits of Fivetran were established rapidly across the Information Management team and the whole organization. Previously, if something failed in the manual system, there were no alerts and inaccurate data would go undetected, ending up in the hands of decision makers. With Fivetran’s automated alerts, BizCover minimizes the risk of reporting or acting on inaccurate data. This has allowed the team to focus on using the data instead of building their pipelines and connectors. From Finance, Analytics, and IT to Product, Marketing, and Sales, any part of the business that needs reporting and business data has felt the benefits of Fivetran since its implementation.

Benefit #1	Reduced time to create a connector by 90% - from 40-80 hours to 4-8 hours.
Benefit #2	Saved 36-72 engineering hours per connector.
Benefit #3	Quicker and more accurate insights into key business metrics such as Loss Ratio.

Benefit #1

Reduced time to create a connector by 90% - from 40-80 hours to 4-8 hours.

Benefit #2

Saved 36-72 engineering hours per connector.

Benefit #3

Quicker and more accurate insights into key business metrics such as Loss Ratio.

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BizCover Accelerates Data Connectivity by 90% with Fivetran

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