Feeding an insatiable appetite for data
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- Kingfisher
- Qlik Data Integration
- Strata insurance retail platform
Tech Stack
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Predictive Quality Analytics
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
CDL is a leading UK insurtech company that powers many of the UK’s most successful insurance retailers. The company invests significantly in innovation and has been featured in the Financial Times Future 100 listing of high growth UK companies making an impact on their industry. CDL has developed Kingfisher, a cloud-based business intelligence solution running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Kingfisher was built to provide users of CDL’s Strata insurance retail platform with the data-on-demand they need to support sound decision-making and to gain a competitive advantage.
The Challenge
The personal lines insurance industry is a highly competitive and price-sensitive marketplace. With more than two-thirds of UK insurance transacted online, the ability to compete on price comparison sites is key to success. As millions of quotes are generated each day, real-time analysis of vast volumes of data is fundamental for organizations targeting growth and needing insight into ‘live’ sales performance. Whether it’s pricing, a technical issue or variations in the market, alerts can prompt decisions that will avert substantial revenue losses. In this fast-moving industry, waiting 24 hours for access to data is not an option.
The Solution
CDL chose Qlik Data Integration to support its Kingfisher data platform. Qlik Data Integration is a high-performance data replication tool that offers optimized data ingestion from a broad array of data sources and platforms and seamless integration with all major big data analytics platforms. Qlik’s real-time data ingestion capabilities were an ideal match for the immediacy required by CDL customers. CDL has now deployed many instances of Qlik Data Integration and reports that it is working well. It also uses Qlik for its own data replication work, which has included the migration of several Oracle databases to PostgreSQL.
Operational Impact
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