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25.01.2022 By Steffen Spliethoff
Gaia-X: a boost for data sharing in the insurance industry
There is still very little data sharing going on in today’s insurance industry. Obstacles to this include strict and often unclear regulations, reluctance to share data or the difficulty involved in calculating the value of data in advance. Gaia-X offers insurance providers enormous potential. I will explain what that potential is in my blog post.
Read more20.01.2022 By Allan Linke and Ferhat Yildiz
RPA as an AI enabler – software robots transport you to a harmonised system landscape
At the beginning of the global pandemic, the switch to mobile working was another wake-up call for many companies to invest more in digitalisation. A complete integration of all company processes into a few central systems often requires very high investments and can rarely be realised in a short amount of time. One possible solution to this situation is robotic process automation (or RPA). We explain what this is all about in our blog post.
Read more19.01.2022 By Andrea Giuliani
What is the Online Access Act?
You’ve probably heard a lot about the Online Access Act, but what is it exactly? Why is the Online Access Act important for Germany? What are the specific challenges and how implementation is progressing? I will answer these questions in my blog post.
Read more18.01.2022 By Nehir Safak-Turhan
Legacy modernisation: how the core banking systems are brought up to the latest digital standards
An efficient and flexible design of the IT systems is the basic prerequisite for high-performance banking operations. Even though the modernisation of IT is a great challenge, a benefit- and customer-oriented modernisation of the IT landscape is a mandatory prerequisite for more efficiency, customer orientation and sustainability of banks. In my blog post, I explain how core banking systems are brought up to the latest digital standards. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Read more13.01.2022 By Lars Zimmermann , Georg Benhöfer and Stephen Lorenzen
The coalition agreement of the new German government – an outlook on the energy industry issues of the coming years
On 24 November 2021, Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats concluded on a coalition agreement that sets the course for the next legislative period. A central component is formed by energy industry specifications, measures and guidelines to enable a transition of the German energy sector and to accelerate the energy transition. We summarise the key points in our blog post.
Read more16.12.2021 By Stephen Lorenzen, Georg Benhöfer and Lars Zimmermann
MsbG Novelle 2021 (2021 amendment to the German Metering Point Operation Act) – clarity for the smart meter rollout?
2021 was a turbulent year. This year’s almost over, yet there’s still much to be discussed alongside the omnipresent topic of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the topic of smart meter rollouts. So before we enter into the new year, we’re taking a look at what lies behind us and outlining which positive resolutions are worth making for metering point operators in 2022.
Read more13.12.2021 By Tim Strohschneider
Optimising financial transactions
Regulatory requirements, changing customer expectations and increasing complexity pose new challenges for existing financial transaction systems. Using approaches based on artificial intelligence (AI) can optimise this significantly.
Read more09.12.2021 By Stephen Lorenzen, Georg Benhöfer and Lars Zimmermann
Changes to electronic messages as part of the MaKo 2022 – key information moving forward
The German Federal Network Agency published adjustments to the MaKo 2022 on 1 October 2021 (part 1) and 15 October 2021 (part two). These changes cover three areas in particular: EDIFACT data formats, XML data exchange and decision tree diagrams. We explain what this means in detail in our blog post.
Read more07.12.2021 By Sebastian Ritzkat and Sabine Fischer
Expanding our comfort zone through prevention
There are enormous differences in the procedures for processing claims related to property and liability and those for granting health insurance benefits. What both areas have in common, however, is that prevention is always better than payouts. In this blog post, we show what prevention looks like in the context of both health insurance and composite insurance.
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