Client Details - Windsor Life

Client Details - Windsor Life

Background

Windsor Lifes success within the Life Assurance and Pensions industry has been based on a corporate strategy of growth by acquisition.

In the period of 1982 to 1988, Windsor Life reached a target of over 75M of funds under management through the acquisition of the following businesses:
Uk Life
Continental Life New Zealand Life
Grosvenor Life Over the next 10 years, Windsor Life acquired the following business: Combined Life
Lifetime (UK branch)
Aetna Life
Gresham Life
Aegon
Crown Financial Management
GAN Life These acquisitions have meant that at the end of December 2002 the funds under management have increased to 5,000M and Windsor Life now looks after the wellbeing of 623,000 policyholders.

An integral part of Windsor Lifes corporate strategy has been the consolidation of data from all acquired IT systems with an ultimate goal of migrating all in-force business to their core administration system, ALPHA.

Windsor Life have chosen to use resources from genus as part of the migration team for all their acquisition and data migration projects since 1995 beginning with the migration of Windsor Life legacy data. These key resources are seen as experts in all aspects of a migration.

Solution

genus resources have been involved in all stages of a data migration. Our involvement covers:
Initial analysis and validation of legacy data
Understanding of business requirements
Migration design and development
Implementation
genus resources worked closely with business experts from both Windsor Life and the acquired companies to assist with the production of a solution that ensured data integrity and reliability.

The Windsor Life core administration system, ALPHA, now houses over 1.3M migrated policies. genus resources are proud to have been involved in the migration of all these policies.

Technologies

The technology used is Visual Basic.Net, Unix scripting and Oracle PL/SQL. The database tecnology is ORACLE running under HP UNIX.

Client Statement

"The key requirements in data conversions are understanding, accuracy, efficiency of the process and control Genus resources have provided key skills to ensure these requirements are fully met, time and time again"
Paul Parsons
Administration Executive
Windsor Life