From accelerated time to market to 40% faster quotes, Crum & Foster and Co-operators unlock business value while minimizing technical debt and TCO with Unqork and AidenAI
In this inspiring conversation, Bryan Brizzi, CDO at Crum & Forster, and Sheetal Vyas, AVP Engineering at Co-operators shared how their partnerships with Unqork and AidenAI have enabled both firms to quickly deliver innovative solutions for the business while minimizing technical debt and total cost of ownership. Vinay Kumar, Global Business Head at AidenAI, moderated the discussion.
Co-operators Scales Innovation Like a Startup
To enable emerging business models, Co-operators—a Canadian financial services cooperative offering multi-line insurance and investment products, services, and advice—formed a start-up within the larger enterprise.
To accelerate innovation while minimizing technical debt, Co-operators partnered with Unqork and Aiden to create a development platform that requires “zero lines of code,” Vyas said. “It’s all built on the Unqork platform, with integrations all around our ecosystem.”
As a result, Vyas and her team have unlocked:
- Faster time to market. The team is bringing MVPs to market quickly, then learning and quickly iterating to create better, more scalable products.
- Scalability. “We’ve built an entire application ecosystem. That means we’re not just delivering one-off solutions quickly but have also gained the scalability of a platform,” Vyas said.
- Lower TCO. By empowering less experienced developers to be more productive and perform more complex tasks, Vyas adds that the firm has been able to minimize operational costs.
Crum & Foster Fast-tracks Innovation, Eliminates Tech Debt
Crum & Foster—a market-leading property & casualty firm—also wanted to unlock digital acceleration without the burden of tech debt. To do so, the firm used the Unqork platform to create a single pane of glass that overlays APIs, workflows, and UIs — all without any changes or disruptions to underlying systems.
Benefits of the partnership with Unqork and AidenAI include:
- Innovation unlocked. While underlying legacy systems will change in the future, the firm can “deliver the value of a modern system right away,” Brizzi said.
- Accelerated underwriting. “With all the rich feature sets that we’ve been able to add with Unqork, we’re getting quotes out the door around 40% faster. And that’s a huge benefit for the business,” he added
- Eliminating technical debt. The flexibility and ease of integrations enabled by Unqork means Crum & Foster can eliminate underlying legacy systems that are costly to maintain, explained Brizzi.
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