Landscape

Policy administration

Landscape provides every aspect of functionality required for policy administration, including full policy history, support for all adjustment types (including the ability to roll adjustments back and forward while maintaining the integrity of the policy records), inbound and outbound bordereaux, billing and workflow, email integration and document production. The policy component is coupled to Landscape’s rating engine. Screen layout selection and all information, available from drop-down lists on the policy screens, are managed within the rating engine and are product- and scheme-dependent. The policy screens are designed so that key policy data is always visible, and it’s possible for policy administration to be performed securely by staff, brokers or directly by the customer via the web.

Rating engine

Landscape can connect to Equator but it also has its own comprehensive rating engine. The rating engine enables MGAs to build and launch new products, and modify existing products very quickly, delivering a speed to market that’s unachievable by most businesses

Key features:

• Ease of use – the rating engine is user friendly and does not require programming code in day-to-day use, putting the power of product development and management into the hands of the underwriters, ensuring the MGA can continue to differentiate its capabilities
• Common functionality across all lines of business, meaning that product components such as tables, rules and endorsements can be re-used
• Product components can be versioned, meaning that elements of schemes can be amended without any disruption. For example a new version of a rating area table can be created and implemented with no need to amend any of the schemes that it’s assigned to
• Great flexibility in the area of defining how premiums are split between all the parties involved to drive accounting, modelling and reporting functions

Claims management or Claims integration

Fast, efficient, end-to-end claims management.

Key features:

• Notification
• Fraud detection
• Payment management
• Document management
• Workflow
• Audit trail
• Automation rules (user-defined rules to automate the closure of a payment and allocation of claims to handlers)
• Integration with third party systems AudaBridge and Verify

The claims module integrates seamlessly with the policy module. Details of a loss submitted by a customer will automatically be checked against the policy during the validation process. The integration with Landscape’s graphical workflow component enables the business to control very precisely how, when and by whom a claim is handled.

MGAs differ widely and RDT recognises that some might want to use a third party claims management company for all or part of its operations, especially early in its life. With this in mind, Landscape can be securely accessed by third party staff, and has a full suite of claims APIs that allow for third party claims systems to be integrated efficiently and quickly.

Graphical workflow

Landscape’s powerful workflow tool enables extremely efficient process management. Tasks, events and escalation procedures can be generated from trigger points and assigned to individuals based on their roles and workloads.

Key features:

• Generation of tasks or events from external systems or applications
• Re-allocation of tasks
• Context-sensitive task records – the user can access the relevant Landscape page, such as a policy record or claim, directly from the task record
• Automatic deletion of tasks when action is no longer required
• Summary view of tasks and history for management information (MI) purposes

Landscape integrates with sophisticated rules-based workflows and process automation.

Accounts

Landscape’s accounting suite provides automated control of your business’s finances. Entries for any entity can instantly be accessed from any relevant area of Landscape.

Key features:

• Double-entry accounting
• Claims payments and recoveries
• Cash receipting, splitting and allocation with full audit trail
• Automated online credit/debit card authorisation
• BACS payments and recoveries
• Web-based account reconciliation for brokers
• Bordereaux production
• Extensive reporting capabilities including generation of ad-hoc reports

Channel management

Landscape’s channel module allows MGAs to handle any type of distribution relationship. Landscape’s key policy and claims business logic is exposed as web services, enabling MGAs to easily create websites to serve their customers or intermediaries, or to allow third parties to integrate securely with Landscape.

Key features:

• Accounting support for brokers and intermediaries
• Documentation support including both paper and online statements
• Graphical analysis of channel performance
• Modification of key rating factors for the channel
• Support for three levels of partner – broker group, broker and sub-broker

Management information

Landscape connects to Horizon, RDT’s data warehouse solution, which provides all MI capabilities.