Check out how one of our leading South African Insurance Company Achieved 10X more customers by integrating CRM workflows by reducing onboarding time by 50% and eliminating tedious manual processes during their digitally transformation journey.

About Client 

The client is a leading service provider in the insurance domain since 25+ years, that engages with multiple insurance companies by offering white label solutions/products to their customers in South Africa with a 750,000+ client base 

Country South Africa
Industry Insurance

Business Requirement

  • Client was using Genesis CRM for a long which was built with a legacy technology & architecture which made managing 10 million databases of customers quite difficult 
  • There was multiple manual paper-based process, e.g., claiming the amount (covered under Insurance), due to which manual mistakes and delays were occurring 
  • Client was looking for a strategic IT service partner who could manage their end-to-end digital ecosystem  
  • Non-scalable systems needed to be resolved  
  • Restricted business growth needed expansion  
  • Dependency on people needed to be lowered 

Our Solution

  • During the discovery phase, we provided the consultancy to identify and implement the new CRM system 
  • Implemented microservices (migration from monolithic) based architecture to meet the desired numbers, not only from a scalability point of view but also for achieving higher availability. We hosted it over the cloud for security reasons, followed by DevOps to speed up the deployment process  
  • Used low code tool called Warewolf and developed more Microservices on top of it to maximize efforts  
  • Digitized the insurance sales by developing a mobile app for agents to capture the policy details. Adding to the same, customers were able to claim insurance amount with all necessary approvals & payments effectively 

Key Features 

BI & Data Analytics  

  • Management report  
  • Collection report for policies  
  • New sales report and more  

Applied ML to make the CRM system intelligent for future predictions: integration with expedia to customer data and predict policy plan  

  • ML initials – To predict the affordability of a customer on the initial sales  
  • ML ongoing – To predict the customer’s propensity to pay for next month and based on that, take them through various journeys  
  • Next best offer – To predict the next best product that we offer to have a higher success rate on the conversion 

Tools & Technology 

  • Platform: MS Azure, Docker & Kubernetes, MS Dynamics 
  • Technology: .NET Core, Angular, WAREWOLF (Low Code Tool), React Native, Redux form 
  • Database: MS Azure SQL, Elastic Search 
  • BI: Tableau, Power BI & SSRS 
  • AI: Python, Xgboost & Scikit Learn libraries, Pyodbc/PYsql and Matplotlib/Seaborn 
  • Tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket 

Business Outcome

  • Average Insurance Selling increased by 50% 
  • Onboarding Process Time Improved by 50% 
  • Capture policy data without an internet connection and Sync 
  • Business-ready system to accommodate exponential customer growth   
  • Digitally enabled people with the digital process, tools & technology 
  • Real-time easy access to structured and unstructured data through one platform 
  • Increased Customer base by 10 times with the implementation of new architecture and ML 
  • Document rejection due to wrong field capture decreased by 18% 
  • Saved development efforts by 20%