The Insurance Journal

Inland Marine Rating With Insbridge

Learn how Second Phase helped a client port a legacy Inland Marine product into Insbridge!

Crime Rating With Insbridge

A crime insurance policy provides several types of very diverse coverages which need to be properly structured within a rating solution to provide for the most accurate quote.

Oracle Insbridge

Entertainment Commercial Package Policy in Insbridge

The Second Phase team explains the complexity of the Entertainment Commercial Package Policy and provides methods of implementations within a rating engine while avoiding potential issues.

Oracle Insbridge

Commercial Auto Rating With Insbridge

Learn the best practice for implementing Commercial Auto rating using Insbridge.

Oracle Insbridge

Commercial General Liability Rating With Insbridge

Learn how Second Phase can help with porting over a legacy rating system to Insbridge for one of the most common lines of business, Commercial General Liability.

Oracle Insbridge

How Insurance Carriers Can Reduce Costs & Time to Market using Insbridge

Benefits of utilizing a stand-alone rating solution such as Insbridge Enterprising Rating will make insurers more architecturally flexible, handling more advanced rating methodologies, ultimately allowing them to reduce their time to market!

Oracle Insbridge

Time to Replace Your Rating Engine

I remember the first time I stepped foot into an insurance carrier's office. I had never seen a green screen before, or monochrome monitor for the youngsters out there. "This can't be 2006," I said to myself. It was very much 2006 and fortunately we were helping a

Oracle Insbridge

Thinking Outside of Oracle Insbridge's Driver Assignment Box

Driver assignment; everyone's favorite topic! It's easily one of the most complex topics to discuss (and write about) related to Oracle Insbridge and the Personal Auto line of business in general. We've recently helped a customer who was dealing with a specific issue related to driver assignment and it opened

Oracle Insbridge

Relieve Pain Points with Oracle Insbridge

Insurance rating systems have long suffered from many different pain points. Some of the most common issues include: Maintenance that is costly and burdensome, for a variety of reasons. The effort it takes to introduce new rates or products is too high. Rating is inefficient and takes hours to complete.

Oracle Insbridge

Using Oracle Insbridge as a Rules Engine

When you think about Oracle Insbridge, the first word that should come to mind is rating. It's kind of hard to avoid considering the word is part of the full title of the product - Oracle Insurance Insbridge Enterprise Rating. Insbridge is very good at rating and it's certainly the

Second Phase

Second Phase Obtains Oracle Insbridge Resell Rights

Second Phase is excited to announce that we have become an authorized reseller of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Enterprise Rating. How can this benefit you? With over 18 years of Oracle Insbridge experience, Second Phase has provided customers with solutions to help them get the most out of their Oracle Insbridge

Oracle Insbridge

Public XML and Automating Oracle Insbridge Development

Here at Second Phase, we're constantly trying to find ways to make life easier for customers using the Oracle Insbridge product. One feature we're currently very interested in is Public XML. What is Public XML? The earliest reference I can find to Public XML is in version 4.6.1,

Oracle Insbridge

Create a Clean Program from Another Program

Several years ago, a customer approached us with an interesting scenario: We have a rating program that isn't what it once was and we've created a lot of versions and elements that are no longer used. Is there a way we can essentially start over and use the latest version

Oracle Insbridge

Universal vs. Global vs. Local

Understanding how Universal, Global, and Local elements work in Insbridge can make maintenance of your rating programs much easier.

Second Phase

Second Phase 2015 Year In Review

Overall, 2015 was a great year for Second Phase. We’ve been very fortunate to work with amazing customers and we’re looking forward to staying busy in 2016!

Oracle Insbridge

Oracle Insbridge 4.9 Release Review

Oracle Insurance Insbridge Enterprise Rating 4.9 was released in February 2015 and with it comes quite a few enhancements aimed at making areas within RateManager more user-friendly. There’s also several new system requirements and close to 40 defect fixes. We’ll only walk through some of the key

Oracle Insbridge

To BDD or Not To BDD

When you start a new Insbridge implementation or are working on a major change do you incorporate a design phase or do you just dive into RateManager and start building rating logic? If you are in a time crunch (usually the case) you may be tempted to skip design and

Oracle Insbridge

Anniversary Rating Using Oracle Insbridge

Lately, we’ve been approached by multiple carriers who are looking to implement workers compensation rating in Oracle Insurance Insbridge Enterprise Rating. If you’re familiar with workers compensation, one of the first questions you might ask yourself is – how does anniversary rating work in Oracle Insbridge? I’m going

Second Phase

Second Phase Becomes Gold Level Partner

We are excited about the additional capabilities this achievement enables for Second Phase and our clients.