The Andover Companies Taps iPartners to Improve Decision Making through Business Intelligence

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

iPartners, a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) business analytics solutions to the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, announced that The Andover Companies has selected iPartners' (News - Alert) Insurance Scorecard.

The Insurance Scorecard enables The Andover Companies to improve their decision making through easy access to accurate information, advanced analysis and reporting.

The Andover Companies will leverage the iPartners' solution throughout the enterprise including three distinct companies such as Merrimack Mutual, Cambridge Mutual, and Bay State.

iPartners' Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery method is expected to assist The Andover Companies to be on schedule production environment in early 2012.

“With increased demands for easy access to our data, we needed a better way to give management accurate information needed to make decisions,” said Gary Beiswenger, assistant vice president of IT at The Andover Companies, in a statement. “We also wanted to enhance our reporting from just ad hoc query.”

The Andover Companies chose iPartners' Insurance Scorecard BI solution due to the company's extensive P&C insurance expertise. The other factors which influenced the decisions were their knowledge and experience with legacy policy and claims transactional system.

Moreover, iPartners' P&C Insurance business content will enable Andover to efficiently roll out a robust set of analytics based on business and reporting requirements.

“We appreciate The Andover Companies' selection of iPartners and we are excited to be adding another high quality organization to our client family,” said Robert Lasher, iPartners founder and CEO.

“Forward thinking insurers like The Andover Companies are leading the industry and demonstrating the value of quality data and business intelligence technologies, serving as an example for the others to learn from and follow,” Lasher added.

Recently, iPartners announced that Lititz Mutual Group selected iPartners' Insurance Scorecard business intelligence solution. It offers an attractive pricing model combined with a quick implementation via the SaaS delivery.