Insurance

Cincom Smalltalk has also been used extensively in several leading Insurance applications. Below are a few examples:

Desjardins General Insurance Group

Desjardins General Insurance Group (DGIG) is one of the largest and most successful insurance companies in Canada.

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MMA

Founded in 1828, MMA is a French mutual insurance group with a client base of more than 3 million individuals, professionals, businesses, communities and associations.

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Goals:

To develop two business-critical systems that would:

Cover pre-sales, sales and invoicing processes
Handle insurance claims
Include both client/server workstations for back-office as well as a web client for sales and agencies
Run both on employee PCs (client/server) and as batch applications on the server
Integrate smoothly with other technologies (COBOL, Java, .Net, GraphTalk, etc.)

Challenge:

To introduce system parameterisation and easy-to-use GUI into MMA’s contract handling and claims systems.

Solution:

Cincom® VisualWorks®

Key Results:

The accessible development environment in VisualWorks was easy for programmers to comprehend, enabling them to quickly become productive while enjoying the system.
Object-oriented architecture allowed the reuse of program elements, making development go faster and more efficiently.
Impressive performance satisfies 11,300 simultaneous users globally, covering 690 products and serving over 3 million customers.
Heavy workloads of processing new contracts, invoices, etc. at the end of the year are handled without problems.