New YouTube Channel
Hi,
The InsFocus YouTube channel is live at http://www.youtube.com/insfocus.
The first video is a demonstration of a profitability report:
Hanan Taiber
CTO
Agent Portal Released
Today we are happy to announce a new extension to our business intelligence solution – our new Agent Portal.
The agent portal is a tool that allows agents to access pre-defined insurance BI reports. The tool is a browser-based, zero-footprint tool, with no learning tool whatsoever. Agents just log in with their agent ID and password, choose a report from the given list and see the results. The portal is available from any Internet-connected device, including iPhones, iPads and Blackberries.
Insurance companies can use this tool to provide agents with information they need to serve existing clients and sell to prospects. Reports may include:
- Activity monitors
- Sales and growth analysis
- Renewal lists
- Cross selling lists
The full press release is available at http://www.insfocus.com/press/insurance-agent-portal.html.
For more information on the new agent portal, contact us at info@insfocus.com or visit InsFocus Systems website.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan@insfocus.com
New BI usage statistics tool for InsFocus
We are happy to announce today a great addition to our host of web-based administration tools, bundled together under InsFocus System Center. The new tool, named “Usage Statistics”, allows analyzing the logs of InsFocus BI reporting and analysis solution, creating a BI environment over InsFocus BI application.
The new tool provides the following views:
- Viewing a summary “users usage” report or a detailed daily “users usage” report.
- Customizing report dates (last 7 days, last 30 days, custom).
- Viewing a report for all users or for a single user.
- Requesting a report on query run operations, login operations or report opening operations.
- Viewing a “reports usage” report, showing how many times each report was accessed at the defined period.
- Viewing the “reports usage” even for non-accessed reports, to find reports that are not being used.
- Exporting results to CSV.
We believe that this tool will allow administrators to better control system usage at the company, enhance the company’s reports library and track usage patterns of InsFocus.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
Version 1.92 Announced with Banding Support
Hi,
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of InsFocus BI, version 1.92. The new version will be shipped by the end of the month, and will further enhance the analytics and reporting abilities of our business intelligence solution.
Version 1.92 has two major additions. The first one, Banding, is an exciting new feature allowing a whole different style of reports, such as showing figures by agent’s loss ratios, by policies’ sums insured, by client’s year of birth, and all with fast, simple to define, dynamic bands. The second addition, Query Builder tables editor, is an advanced Javascript editor for the query definitions, and should facilitate the work of implementing InsFocus BI.
Bands (profiling)
We call “banding” the process of taking data and splitting it by dynamically created bands. This can be simple data, such as an insured’s age, or complex data, such as loss-frequency. Banding is heavily used in insurance, where reports such as risk profiling, client segmentation and so are needed on a regular basis.
- Create bands on:
- Dimension attributes (e.g. client year of birth, policy #)
- Risk parameters (e.g. engine size, year of manufacturing, floor number)
- Any item (e.g. loss-frequency, sum insured, number of policies)
- Dynamically define band ranges
- Display multiple bands in a report on X, Y or Z axes
- Drill-down into any band to further explore underlying data.
System Center has Query Builder Table Editing
The transition from our previous tool, the Admin Util, to the new System Center, is complete with the introduction of the Query Builder table editor. The editor allows editing all Query Builder XML definition tables.
- Fully HTML-Javascript editor working in all browsers
- Has special editors for columns linked to other tables and other data types
- Displays meta-data to ease editing of tables
- Allows filtering and paging
Small changes
- Ability to add additional attributes of dimensions (e.g. client phone #) even when no items axis is there or in multi-dimension reports
- Snapshot with repeat functionality at end of month/quarter
- Comparison in operation time base works correctly in partial periods also when “show future data” is checked
- Snapshot time base can be shown with auxiliary time bases (e.g. policy inception)
- Valid dates are displayed in time period headers
- Drill-down from time period headers changes valid date according to header date
For further inquiries on the new version and its new features, visit our web-site or contact us at info@insfocus.com.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com
System Center gains Query Builder table editing
Today we are proud to announce that the transition from our previous tool, the Admin Util, to the new System Center, is complete with the introduction of the Query Builder table editor.
The table editor is a sophisticated tool allowing easy editing of Query Builder definitions. By using advanced methods such as row-by-row editing, zero-footprint Javascript code and asynchronous saving, we provide a fast, convenient and simple mechanism for editing the Query Builder tables. Together with the “wizards” for item, dimension and aggregation tables editing, the system center provides administrators a centralized and easy-to-use customization mechanism.
The new tool will be included in our next release, coming in a few weeks.
Hanan Taiber
CTO, InsFocus Systems
hanan_taiber@insfocus.com