Exigen Insurance Solutions®, a leading provider of core systems and business transformation to insurers, today announced the introduction of Exigen Suite™ for Group Benefits. Via Exigen Suite for Group Benefits, insurers have a single system for customer enrollment and policy, billing and claims management that supports all group and worksite business lines and provides a single view of the customer to enable business growth, efficiency and improved customer service.

“As the group and voluntary insurance markets converge, changing distribution and service models will strain IT application architectures and legacy systems past the breaking point,” said Chuck Johnston, director, Americas Life/Annuity & Group Practice with Celent’s Insurance Group. “Insurers and brokers have underinvested in group and voluntary insurance solutions over the last 20-plus years, and will struggle to meet new market requirements. Celent believes that compelling new solution offerings in the group administration space will come from property & casualty (P&C) vendors leveraging their multi-coverage, multiple insurance object models to meet the unique needs of this market.”

Exigen Suite for Group Benefits provides insurers with a technology response to the business, regulatory and social drivers that are reshaping the Group Benefits market. The Exigen Suite offers plan management for group and worksite products – life, disability, accident and health, and medical – that accommodates all classes of participant and all billing options from non-contributory to voluntary. The solution provides insurers with unparalleled flexibility to manage product offerings and distribution across a wide spectrum of the market. Through the built-in customer relationship management (CRM) module insurers, worksite sponsor companies and brokers get a full on-line account view of customers. The solution also meets the growing demand by plan participants to view and manage their products online and on mobile devices.

“As a modern, configurable system based on open standards, Exigen brings a new option into an underserved market,” said Chad Hersh, managing director in the insurance practice at Novarica. “Few systems adequately address the unique needs of the group benefits space, including the robust flexibility and scale requirements. Market forces demand greater investment in technology as insurers seek to build more effective channels that market to employees directly, while dealing with the convergence of traditional group and voluntary insurance and customer desire for greater control over their benefits.”
Key features of Exigen Suite for Group Benefits include:

• A single multi-line platform for group and worksite insurance that reduces cost and provides greater control of distribution;
• A single view of the customer to improve service and increase cross-sell opportunities;
• Simplified eligibility and enrollment that saves time and increases accuracy;
• Flexible billing as a strategy to improve customer relationships; and
• Full real-time self-service for participants, brokers and sponsors.

“To date, Exigen has worked hard to provide P&C insurers of all sizes with a reliable and risk-managed path to achieve business transformation to future-readiness,” said Alec Miloslavsky, executive chairman and CEO of Exigen Insurance Solutions. “However, insurers in the group benefits market have been underserved by technology. Vendors have lagged in their ability to bring forth the newest and best technology. Exigen Suite for Group Benefits changes that by offering the first multi-line, end-to-end, core systems solution on a modern platform that is cloud and mobile enabled.”

“By consolidating disparate line of business systems into one and leveraging the ultra-configurability of Exigen Suite, we expect insurers to reduce operation and IT costs by more than 30 percent and to grow by controlling more of the value chain and being able to more quickly enter markets,” said Adam Denninger, SVP, Commercial Markets, Exigen Insurance Solutions.