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Given your experience, what do you consider the golden rule in terms of successful system implementation?

Rule is the key word in the above question because getting a project done right means following the rules—in this case a project management structure. It's the only way to make sure everything is accounted for in the implementation and, as this carrier will tell you, it's worked like a charm.

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Duck Creek Technologies® is a leading provider of software and services providing next-generation rating, policy administration, commercial lines templates, product definition and configuration and billing for the insurance industry. Duck Creek serves the Property & Casualty and Healthcare markets.

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The Business Intelligence Imperative for Policy Administration Vendors

In the current economy, carriers must keep pace with many innovations in the market to stay competitive. Recent initiatives at insurance companies include the following imperatives related to Business Intelligence (BI): increasing profitable markets, driving dynamic distribution channels, managing losses, utilizing predictive analytics to improve underwriting and more. Across the industry today, one of the most important competitive paradigms is the embedding of a rock-solid business intelligence (BI) foundation into many facets of the insurance enterprise.

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