CSC Insurance Software Clients Land Celent Model Carrier Designation for Third Consecutive Year
21 April 2009 - 8:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
Conseco and GEICO Win 2009 Recognition FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 21
/PRNewswire/ -- CSC announced today that two of its insurance
clients, Conseco and GEICO, were recognized by Celent, a financial
services technology research and advisory firm, as "Model Carriers"
for their effective use of technology. This is the third
consecutive report in which CSC software has supported Model
Carriers. The Celent 2009 Model Carrier report recognizes Conseco
for simplifying its life insurance and annuity agent compensation
environment, and acknowledges GEICO for its advanced property and
casualty (P&C) insurance customer billing options. Conseco
consolidated eight agent compensation management platforms serving
17 regions onto one system, CSC's PerformancePlus incentive
compensation management software for insurers. By integrating
PerformancePlus with its other CSC software, Conseco was able to
reduce the number of compensation regions by six, the number of
platforms by three and the number of internal resources supporting
the compensation systems by 50 percent. GEICO uses CSC's Exceed
Billing software for tier one carriers to offer multiple billing
options to its insurance customers. Exceed also allows GEICO to
rate, quote and process all possible billing scenarios in under one
second, while displaying the correct premium to the penny. "In an
uncertain market, when competition is growing in intensity, having
the right technology and business practices in place is more
important than ever," said Craig Weber, senior vice president of
Celent's Insurance practice. "Conseco and GEICO were selected as
Model Carriers, in part, because their projects demonstrate
carriers using core goals to drive a new IT project and then
working with a vendor to set direction, define and test changes to
a production system." "We congratulate Conseco and GEICO on their
recognition as Model Carriers," said Jim Cook, president of CSC's
Business Solutions & Services Sector. "We take pride in our
ability to help clients transform their businesses - bringing
products to market faster, increasing productivity, reducing costs
and improving customer service." About Celent Celent is a research
and advisory firm dedicated to helping financial institutions
formulate comprehensive business and technology strategies. Celent
publishes reports identifying trends and best practices in
financial services technology and conducts consulting engagements
for financial institutions looking to use technology to enhance
existing business processes or launch new business strategies. With
a team of internationally experienced analysts, Celent is uniquely
positioned to offer strategic advice and market insights on a
global basis. Celent is a member of the Oliver Wyman Group, which
is part of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE:MMC). About CSC CSC
is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and
services through three primary lines of business. These include
Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and
the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities
include systems design and integration, information technology and
business process outsourcing, applications software development,
Web and application hosting, mission support and management
consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has
approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1
billion for the 12 months ended Jan. 2, 2009. For more information,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com/. DATASOURCE:
CSC CONTACT: Marian Kelley, Director, Media and Analyst Relations,
Financial Services Group, +1-512-275-5722, , or Janet Herin, Sr.
Manager, Media Relations, Corporate, +1-310-615-1693, , both of CSC
Web Site: http://www.csc.com/
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