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Feeding an insatiable appetite for data

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Predictive Quality Analytics Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	The personal lines insurance industry is a highly competitive and price-sensitive marketplace. With more than two-thirds of UK insurance transacted online, the ability to compete on price comparison sites is key to success. As millions of quotes are generated each day, real-time analysis of vast volumes of data is fundamental for organizations targeting growth and needing insight into ‘live’ sales performance. Whether it’s pricing, a technical issue or variations in the market, alerts can prompt decisions that will avert substantial revenue losses. In this fast-moving industry, waiting 24 hours for access to data is not an option. Read More
About Customer	CDL is a leading UK insurtech company that powers many of the UK’s most successful insurance retailers. The company invests significantly in innovation and has been featured in the Financial Times Future 100 listing of high growth UK companies making an impact on their industry. CDL has developed Kingfisher, a cloud-based business intelligence solution running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Kingfisher was built to provide users of CDL’s Strata insurance retail platform with the data-on-demand they need to support sound decision-making and to gain a competitive advantage. Read More
Solution	CDL chose Qlik Data Integration to support its Kingfisher data platform. Qlik Data Integration is a high-performance data replication tool that offers optimized data ingestion from a broad array of data sources and platforms and seamless integration with all major big data analytics platforms. Qlik’s real-time data ingestion capabilities were an ideal match for the immediacy required by CDL customers. CDL has now deployed many instances of Qlik Data Integration and reports that it is working well. It also uses Qlik for its own data replication work, which has included the migration of several Oracle databases to PostgreSQL. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Predictive Quality Analytics

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The personal lines insurance industry is a highly competitive and price-sensitive marketplace. With more than two-thirds of UK insurance transacted online, the ability to compete on price comparison sites is key to success. As millions of quotes are generated each day, real-time analysis of vast volumes of data is fundamental for organizations targeting growth and needing insight into ‘live’ sales performance. Whether it’s pricing, a technical issue or variations in the market, alerts can prompt decisions that will avert substantial revenue losses. In this fast-moving industry, waiting 24 hours for access to data is not an option.

About Customer

CDL is a leading UK insurtech company that powers many of the UK’s most successful insurance retailers. The company invests significantly in innovation and has been featured in the Financial Times Future 100 listing of high growth UK companies making an impact on their industry. CDL has developed Kingfisher, a cloud-based business intelligence solution running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Kingfisher was built to provide users of CDL’s Strata insurance retail platform with the data-on-demand they need to support sound decision-making and to gain a competitive advantage.

Solution

CDL chose Qlik Data Integration to support its Kingfisher data platform. Qlik Data Integration is a high-performance data replication tool that offers optimized data ingestion from a broad array of data sources and platforms and seamless integration with all major big data analytics platforms. Qlik’s real-time data ingestion capabilities were an ideal match for the immediacy required by CDL customers. CDL has now deployed many instances of Qlik Data Integration and reports that it is working well. It also uses Qlik for its own data replication work, which has included the migration of several Oracle databases to PostgreSQL.

Impact #1	Data that could take as much as 24 hours to refresh is now available within minutes.
Impact #2	The cloud solution brings considerable cost savings in comparison to previous enterprise offerings, supporting customer value and return on investment.
Impact #3	Kingfisher removes the guesswork, gives CDL's customers the ability to understand what is really happening and enables proactive fine tuning of processes, products and pricing.

Impact #1

Data that could take as much as 24 hours to refresh is now available within minutes.

Impact #2

The cloud solution brings considerable cost savings in comparison to previous enterprise offerings, supporting customer value and return on investment.

Impact #3

Kingfisher removes the guesswork, gives CDL's customers the ability to understand what is really happening and enables proactive fine tuning of processes, products and pricing.

Benefit #1	There are now over 50 instances of Kingfisher running 24x7.
Benefit #2	Data volumes are nearing 100Tb.

Benefit #1

There are now over 50 instances of Kingfisher running 24x7.

Benefit #2

Data volumes are nearing 100Tb.

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Feeding an insatiable appetite for data

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