Telesis Converts Data on BlueWave Technology's PipelineClaims

By Sujata Garud
TMCnet Contributor

Telesis, LLC, a software automation testing company to the insurance industry, announced that Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) successfully converted all its production claims data from its legacy system to its new BlueWave Technology PipelineClaims application using Telesis’s data conversion automation. The data conversion project was part of NBIC’s Project APEX technology modernization initiative, spearheaded by CIO Michael Anselmo.

In a press release, industry expert, Deb Smallwood of SMA (News - Alert), said, “To remain competitive, an insurer’s data must be clean, available, usable, and meaningful – meaning, it must be integrated and shared so users can take the right actions and make the right decisions.”

NBIC chose Telesis to build the required production data conversion process because Telesis was already NBIC’s software testing partner. Telesis was able to leverage the automated testing scripts that it developed using its TARS methodology (Telesis Automated Regression Solution) to create an automated conversion process that was built and tested within 4 weeks. Telesis worked with NBIC and BlueWave to modify data extract and script input formats, allowing NBIC to greatly expand its claim information structure in the new system.

According to Dennis Steckler, a consultant from STA Group that advised NBIC on the APEX project, “Data conversion efforts are typically very complex, costly and fraught with data normalization and transformation issues. Many organizations will postpone software application replacement projects because the data conversion efforts are perceived to be worse than keeping an older legacy system. However, as we started working with Telesis in claims testing, we noticed that the way they configured their automation testing tool, that active and closed claim data conversion could be a real possibility. The long story, short, is that they configured a claims data conversion tool that eliminated NBIC’s need to hire temps to manually convert claims, and Telesis converted the claims over a weekend with minimal human intervention!”

Sujata Garud is a TMCnet freelancer with three years of writing/editing experience and two years of market research experience. As an editor she has covered the IT, electronics, banking, pharma, construction, mining and healthcare industries. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard