United India Insurance Company : Data Centre

With the aim of making data available from a centralized location, United

India Insurance set up a 2000 square feet server room in its Chennai head office

to house the data centre in addition to a separate room for VPN WAN

connectivity. The data centre which went on stream on June 28, 2007, addressed

few of the many challenges that are synonymous with insurance and banking

companies-consolidating information scattered across 1000 or more servers

located at various branch and operating offices, different versions of same apps

running across these servers, and a need for higher reliability, security.

As part of the project, the insuring customers and the public can have access

to the product information, status of their policy, claims, and can interact

online for all queries. Online issuance of policies can also be processed and

instant responses can be provided to the customer. The company also plans to

have a disaster recovery site at Hyderabad in the months to come. In short,

United Insurance has attempted to re-create a CORE banking model for the

insurance industry.

Data Center