n-ZO in Insurance
Data management plays a critical role in insurance operations. From new policy applications processing to claims management to auditing and compliance, insurance systems rely on massive amounts of information related to insurance products, consumers, and actuarial data. Furthermore, information from multiple communication channels, internal and external data sources, and real-time transaction data must to be virtualized for different activities like claims processing and policy management.

The n-ZO Enterprise Information Fabric offers a solution strategy for IT professionals in the insurance industry to support burgeoning data management needs and provide users fast and consistent access to enterprise data. n-ZO's low-latency, high availability, and data distribution capabilities can be used to enable data grid deployments for risk computation and analysis of actuarial statistics. Successful grid deployments need a high-performance information fabric like n-ZO to better utilize the compute power provisioned through these grids.

The n-ZO suite of products can help accelerate and improve functions such as online policy issuance, claims processing, real-time marketing and sales support, auditing, and compliance within the insurance industry.

Benefits of n-ZO include:

  • Avoids Redundant Disk and Database Access.
    n-ZO virtualizes distributed data dynamically across the hardware and software boundaries of the enterprise.
  • Enables Cross-Application Collaboration.
    n-ZO increases performance by enabling distributed in-memory, cross application, data exchange via C, Java, or XML. Performance significantly increases when data is cached in-memory instead of staged in a database.
  • Positions Data Close to Point of Use
    n-ZO enhances the performance of portals, applications, application servers and systems by storing data that is accessed multiple times by programs, groups of users or by a single user who is massaging the data.
  • Reduce Network Load
    Caching data close to point of use prevents unnecessary re-transmission of data across the network for each user. This contributes to a reduction in network load.
  • Enhances Survivability of Distributed Applications
    The distributed n-ZO cache enables applications to continue to work with data that was retrieved before a network outage.
  • Turbo-charges Web Services-Based Applications
    n-ZO significantly enhances XML performance in a Web services environment. It stores XML documents in optimized cache, thus minimizing data access time and storage space in memory. This is one of the critical challenges in a Web Services implementation.
  • Boosts performance and scalability for Java Applications
    n-ZO enables Java applications to access additional memory outside of their process space and thus manipulates more data.
  • Enable Multiple Computers to Seamlessly Share Memory
    n-ZO can create a data-space that spans multiple computers memories. This capability can be used to allow n-ZO caches on 32 bit computers to share memory with 64 bit computers that are virtually unlimited in the amount of memory they can address. This capability can also be used to allow computers in a Grid of blade server environment to appear to have a single large memory space, instead of having a group of disjointed individual memory spaces.

n-ZO Industry Solutions
 Organizations across various industries are bracing for changes that will help them increase their operational efficiency, profitability, and customer service while minimizing risk. However, data management is a significant hurdle to success. n-ZO solutions offer the necessary ingredients to help companies align information strategies with critical business initiatives. 
Learn more about how n-ZO can help address the data management needs in the following industries: