Training

Broker Direct Plc has been working with many insurers successfully delivering personal lines Polaris products to the broker market since it was established in 1997. During this time, we have worked with all major software house platforms and insurer hosted systems.

With our team of ProductWriters, Project Managers, Business Analysts and ISTQB accredited Test Analysts, we can provide you with support throughout or at any point in your journey in a consultancy or contractual capacity.

Our ProductWriters have an insurance background, combined with extensive Polaris programming experience. With a proven history in testing (including EDI, XML, UAT and Polaris batch testing) we can help ensure you deliver a quality product to market.

Broker Direct Plc is your one-stop shop for all insurance product delivery services.

Primarily Personal Lines experience (Motor and Home) using standard data dictionaries. Our team’s expertise includes:

• ProductWriter scheme design, programming, maintenance and/or support
• Experience with differing rating methods (including tiered and peril rating)
• XML and EDI messaging
• Test pack build (including dynamic rating tools via excel)
• Testing services (both Polaris scheme batch and user acceptance testing)

Whilst predominantly experience in personal lines, our team also has commercial product build experience using bespoke software including:

• Retailer
• Tradesman
• Liability
• Commercial Combined
• Excess of Loss

With this in mind, we would also be happy to discuss any Polaris commercial developments.

ProductWriter experts with over 12 years of scheme writing experience. Experience of writing products for major Insurers in various lines of business. Experience in testing with various software houses and integrators.

Worked with Productwriter and RTE for both Personal and Commercial lines whilst at CGI, two market leading Insurers and Software House; OpenGi. Covered all aspects of Polaris products.

Expert in imarket including rating systems, product development, testing and driving effective Customer journey’s. Expert in other imarket services such as Live chat and Accounts Reconciliation centre. Past member of the imarket steering group. Managed Software house integrations for both traditional products and specific broker schemes and arrangements.

Knowledge of various lines of business including Private Motor, Home, Pet, SME and large Commercial schemes using the standard Commercial dictionary and also commercial products using Schema based Dictionaries.

Have been involved with ProductWriter and the RTE since 2007, initially as a FTE of Nnable Ltd (now part of Aon) and latterly as a freelance subcontractor. Have worked across multiple integrations.

Recent clients include Tesco Underwriting, Inspire Underwriting, Modus Underwriting and Pen Underwriting.

DTR-Ltd was formed in 2007 by its founding directors Phil Sankey Dip CII and Lee Dimmock Dip CII.

We have extensive experience of creating and maintaining ProductWriter Polaris products across the market.

Our products are successfully integrated on a number of Insurance Software Houses, Insurer Hosted systems and Broker systems.

We offer extensive Development and Testing resource and can provide a bespoke package tailored to meet your individual requirements.

DTR-Ltd specialises in all aspects of ProductWriter Polaris Product Creation, maintenance and testing across all product lines and Data Dictionaries. So whether you are thinking about using Polaris for the first time, require a new product build or simply find yourself without Polaris resource then DTR-Ltd are able to help.

Our mission is to offer all of our customers an exceptional level of service, flexibility and peace of mind. Please contact us to discuss your requirements further.

Client list includes: Applied Systems, Chaucer, KGM, Markerstudy, Premier Underwriting, Prestige Underwriting Services Ltd, XS Direct, Zenith and many more. Full details of other clients and / or references are available on request.

20yrs industry experience with exposure to both Direct and Intermediated insurers.

ProductWriter, who has built and deployed multiple products within the following disciplines, Motor/Household and Packaged SME products. Familiar with EDI messaging, IS2000/ insurer mainframes, all major SWH data configuration and test engines, Insurer Hosted and Real Time Pricing. Building them, testing them, being the business analyst and more recently the project management activities – including the delivery of a new policy administration system.

Have used standard, extended and XML data dictionaries. Am familiar with the DB2 configuration. Am familiar with mapping APIs to the dictionaries and vice versa.

Asides ProductWriter have broad understanding of the General Insurance arena from Pricing through Underwriting and have worked for the largest insurers as well as MGAs and start-ups. Including a stint in the Lloyds market as a manager of a developer team.

Have built more Motor products than anything else – but aim not to specialise in only one area.

My main selling point is making it easy for not necessarily Tech people to engage and then pitching the content at the appropriate level of understanding.

e-Zee was founded in 2008.

We provide consultancy and contracting services to the General Insurance Industry on all aspects of electronic and digital trading ranging from system selection, project management, business analysis, product building, testing and training.

We provide consultancy, assistance and support to Insurers, MGA’s, Brokers, Finance Companies, Data Enrichment Providers and Investors. Further details can be found on our website.

The e-Zee board members have over 150 years industry experience between them and our team members have all worked for the major insurers, brokers or Software Houses. The team are located throughout the UK and we have the flexibility to provide assistance to meet our client’s requirements working on site or remotely.

Our Productwriter team all of whom have over 10 years experience using Productwriter have worked for Aviva, RSA, Zurich, Commercial Union, Allianz.

Our staff have expertise across all Commercial and Personal Lines products.

The following details just some of the products we have built:

• Commercial Combined
• Mini Fleet
• Combined Liability
• All SME Products ( Shop, Office, Tradesman, Property Owners etc)
• Professional Indemnity
• Private Car
• Household (inc multi peril)
• Commercial Vehicle
• Motorcycle

We have provided support to Carriers who use IHP solutions and we can build products using the private as well as public dictionaries.

We can provide support for forms and EDI development, we can also assist clients with Polaris product and environment testing.

If required, we happy to provide CV’s and client testimonials for all team members.

With over 20 years’ experience of working with Polaris technologies F1 has built an enviable reputation for creating and maintaining quality products using the Polaris ProductWriter toolset. During this time we have worked with over 25 insurance companies, building Private Motor, Commercial Vehicle and Household products, ranging from the most basic schemes to the very latest complex peril-rated schemes. We have a vast experience of creating products for all the main broker systems including AA, Acturis, Applied, Budget, CDL, Guidewire, Saga, SSP & TGSL and we have a thorough understanding of all the data enrichment techniques used by each system.

In addition to using the ProductWriter toolset, F1 has a high degree of expertise in integrating the Polaris Run Time Environment (RTE, XRTE & WSRTE) into bespoke software solutions, such as our highly acclaimed product testing software, PremierTest.

All our staff are highly skilled software developers who have worked within the insurance industry for the last 30 years providing an unparalleled level of experience within this sector.

Our main area of expertise with ProductWriter is with the Personal Lines data dictionaries with which we are very familiar, although we have also worked with the Commercial and iMarket dictionaries to a lesser extent. We have a thorough knowledge and understanding of all the main broker systems and have undertaken the development of over 80 individual schemes, split roughly equally between the motor and household dictionaries, on behalf of a great many of the Polaris members.

IQUO have been working with POLARIS UK and with ProductWriter for over 20 years. We have considerable experience in writing schemes for a range of insurers. In addition, we develop and host insurance applications that integrate ProductWriter schemes supplied to us by insurers. Recently we have integrated our applications into iMarket to provide both a broker front end and also an insurer backend system.

We have a team of 3 experienced ProductWriter developers, each with over 15 years’ experience. In this time, we have advised our customers on their use of ProductWriter and have provided bespoke training on the product to aid definition and testing of the insurance product. As we use ProductWriter schemes in our applications we are well versed in the deployment of the POLARIS RTE and the processes that have to be followed as part of the regular upgrade routines.

I am a ProductWriter developer and ISEB accredited test analyst, with over 10 years of experience within the insurance industry. My background in product development and testing, together with my keen understanding of the product launch process, allows me to integrate quickly into the client’s development teams and deliver results. I offer development and testing expertise on a contract basis.

Polaris ProductWriter Development and Testing for all Class of Business’, on all Dictionaries types, across both Personal and Commercial lines.

Since 1998 Line Contracts has been serving the insurance industry with IT solutions. Providing both IT and insurance business Knowledge and experience Line Contracts has been able to offer a wholistic and rounded service from specification testing through to software house integration, supporting our clients either long term or through periods of high demand. Having strong software house relationships and a comprehensive working understanding of the Polaris ProductWriter tool set Line Contracts has a history of delivering new products to market on budget and within proscribed time scales, as well as supporting our clients with monthly maintenance contracts.

Specialising in personal lines products, we work predominantly with Private Car, Household and Small Commercial Vehicle lines. Creating bespoke products for our Blue-Chip insurer partners and large brokers, delivering software house Implementations including IHP integrations.

We have worked in the Polaris arena since its inception more than 20+ years ago. We have worked with most Insurers over this period and have written more than 200+ Schemes in that time. Design, Development & Batch Testing are all functions we are totally familiar with.

We have also been involved with the implementation of the Polaris RTE into Broker\Insurer Systems.

• Commercial, Household & Motor Dictionaries
• UK & Ireland
• Schema Based (XML) Dictionaries
• Dictionary Extensions
• XML
• Polaris RTE
• Excel & VBA Tool Development
• Bulk\Batch Testing
• BAU
• Excel Rating Algorithm Development

Sablistech has nearly a decade of experience in building and integrating products for insurers and brokers. It has worked with all major Software Houses and imarket as well as third party suppliers. Between them the directors of Sablistech have worked for more than 35 years in Electronic Trading for the Insurance Industry working on both traditional waterfall and agile projects.

• Commercial and Personal Lines Product Build and Test on traditional and XML dictionaries
• Setting up and integrating RTEs to software platforms