Case Study - Underwriting Support Specialist Vehicle Insurance Quote and Buy

Situation

Graham Sykes of Underwriting Support was keen to exploit the power of the web to enhance his business. Graham’s company wanted an online insurance Quote & Buy system developed to initially handle specialist vehicles. He approached us with his ideas which were well thought out and on the ball. Graham had scoured the markets, but was unable to find anyone offering the service he needed to bring his ideas to the market. He then made immediate contact with us and we were able to listen to his ideas and put them into action.

Solution

Graham had already done the hard part when we'd started. He knew exactly what he wanted and how he wanted the site to work. We were able to take his ideas and from the basic outline and shape a solution that would integrate well with his existing business practises. He entrusted us to design, develop and deliver the first phase which was very well received and worked as expected. Documents were produced in PDF format on the fly and emailed to clients, back office staff and insurers as soon as the payment was taken streamlining the process considerable.

Further enhancements were made to provide multiple comparative quotes from different insurers giving the customer more choice in the buying process.

Further schemes were introduced covering breakdown cover, car boot and exhibitions.

Technical Design

The main website and database were all based on Microsoft technologies. The database was based on SQL Server 2000 and the web development was .Net with Visual Studio. The site was hosted on a pair of Dell servers and the database and admin facilities were hosted on separate servers all with Windows Server 2003.

Future Developments

Currently there are no plans to further enhance the site.

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