BANGALORE, India, Nov. 2, 2004--The Insurance practice of Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), announced the launch of its underwriting transformation solution for Property & Casualty insurance companies. The solution would help these organizations bring down their combined ratios below the 100-mark by improving the efficacy of the underwriting process -- both in terms of its 'risk assessment' and 'producing' capabilities.

Explaining the rationale behind the solution, Madhava M, Head of Insurance Domain Consulting Group, Wipro Technologies commented, "For long enough insurance companies could sustain a combined ratio of more than 100% backed up by good returns on investment portfolios. However, in today's tough economic environment and dwindling investment incomes insurance companies are forced to revisit their core operations like underwriting. And this should happen proactively."

The underwriting transformation solution developed by Wipro uses data warehousing and business intelligence tools and techniques to analyze underwriting, claims, sales and external data to measure and improve the quality and effectiveness of underwriting decisions while touching upon various factors like risk profiling, product pricing etc.

"Insurance companies need to continuously improvise their underwriting process, focusing on profitability through scientific analysis of historical data," said John Flynn, Senior Vice President, META Group, a leading provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting. "With increasing competition and the changing market scenario, carriers need to maintain underwriting discipline and focus on underwriting profitability."

Wipro has developed solution frameworks that would help insurers bring down the combined ratio by addressing its two components -- the loss ratio and expense ratio through underwriting transformation and activity based costing respectively. These solutions are developed leveraging the existing IT infrastructure without demanding aggressive IT investments on part of the companies.

The underwriting transformation framework is a part of Wipro's point services offering for the insurance industry. Talking about point services Soumitro Ghosh, Vice President Insurance Solutions, Wipro Technologies said, "Using our incisive technology and an understanding of the insurance domain we offer specific point services to address key pain areas of insurance companies. Insurers while realizing the need to adopt new technologies for business growth are often constrained by restrictive budgets and sunk investments in existing IT inventory. The point services aim to address the pain areas using technology while working around the existing IT infrastructure."

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