It’s time for insurers with Guidewire to leverage Cognitive AMS

As far as the IT landscape is concerned, managing key applications brings along an element of harmony within the organization. Organizations are committed to improving operational efficiencies and strive hard to reduce costs while meeting customer demands in terms of speed and offering 24/7 support. In our previous blog post, we took you through the ramifications of conventional application management services. Regardless of the industry our organization belongs to, traditional AMS shouldn’t be in your scheme of things if you want to enhance your application support big time. If you are a Life and P&C Insurer, application support becomes paramount when real time, accurate data accumulated around the clock can make all the difference in the world to a loyal customer.

Cognitive Application Management Services (AMS): What’s New?

As discussed in our previous blog, conventional AMS misses out on several key issues such as high-ticket velocity, lower helpdesk productivity, sub standard L1 and L2 support, and incurring high costs towards the end. Moreover, there are frequent recurring issues that demand the workforce to be available 24/7 to address and fix those tickets.

With the introduction of cognitive abilities, AI is perfectly suited for insurers to tackle high volumes of service requests and application support that storm into the insurers’ inboxes every day. With advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques, insurers can take a back seat and allow AI solutions to decipher the conversational styles of emails.

While insurers receive service requests in various formats, AI solutions can manage those requests and curb the time spent by operational teams on reviewing, processing, and responding to them. Cognitive AMS allows insurers to address the challenge that are scalable and cost-effective, while they focus on value-added operations to help customers.

So, this is how cognitive solution works: The NLP engine retrieves messages from the mailboxes and deploys OCR (optical character recognition) to read those messages. The NLP engine further identifies the intent of the service request and engages in an exception-handling mechanism in case the service request is too difficult to interpret.

What do insurers need?

In order to ensure your IT division is complementing your business, organizations such as yours must work in harmony to ensure:

Your business is aligned with IT KPIs to continually measure and manage them
An automation-led support model is installed to improve Guidewire performance
Leverage ITSM-led helpdesk methodology to enhance operational efficiency

Scope of Guidewire Application Support and Maintenance

Guidewire Application Maintenance comprises two sets of activities:

Business as usual (BAU) tasks such as incident management, service requests and other operational processes to make sure that your applications function seamlessly.
Proactive tasks such as predictive and preventive maintenance and support workflows to continuous monitor, measure, and improve your applications.

The fact is application teams spend almost 80% on BAU activities and only 20% on proactive tasks.

Enter Optimized Guidewire Support Services

The way ahead for insurers is to change the way Guidewire support team approaches their proactive tasks. The support team must ensure they dedicate more time for proactive tasks by:

Preventing incidents
Leveraging automation when prevention isn’t possible
Enabling self-service portals in case they fail to do the above

So, what constitutes an optimized Guidewire support service?

Continuous Monitoring and Reporting
Automation-led Operations
Optimized Operating Model
Zero-risk transition from conventional AMS
Innovation and Customer Satisfaction

Benefits of AI-AMS in Insurance:

Reduced Operational Costs: AI solutions help with application performance management, resulting in cost savings of up to 45%
Productivity Boost: While AI technologies such as NLP and OCR retrieve and automate prioritizing service requests, the productivity of front-office and back-office operations increases by 60%
Controlled ticket velocity: As the AI solution replaces human intervention in managing service requests, the ticket velocity is decreased by at least 35% and incidents are completely avoided
Meeting SLAs: AI-driven AMS warrants a well-defined SLA mechanism by categorizing service requests from low to high priority with minimal to no human intervention.

By partnering with Guidewire software and applying our deep insurance domain expertise, Aspire Systems provides AI-powered application management services. Our domain-rich experience with Guidewire application management services has helped our long-standing partners – some leading Life and P&C insurers – save at least 40% of total costs associated with implementing intelligent Guidewire solutions.

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