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discussed and decisions were made on time plans and
major project steps, which were agreed by all. These
committee studies, which were carried out for the first
time since 2008, when SBM was established, showed
the importance and value of the process of sharing of
experiences by insurance business information technology
managers.
As known, SBM carries out critical duties of gathering data
needed by insurance business, and sharing such data with
insurance companies and all relevant parties. It is essential
that sector managers and SBM work together in harmony
to gather this data in a healty manner these data that are
crucial for insurance sector, perform, complete and activate
the studies for this purpose in an appropriate manner. IT
committees also have undertaken responsibility on this
matter.
The next step must be performing the studies that would
help the business improve more, and ensure our clients
receive the services that would make their lives better from
different channels in a fast and high-quality manner.
Our goal is to keep business integration at highest level at all
areas, and contribute to our sector through common sense
and action.
Aiming to produce common solutions with insurance
companies to lead the sector, Insurance Information Center
(SBM) accelerated its works with its newly established IT
Committee.
SBM strives to gather insurance related data at a single
center and to have insurance activities performed in a more
extensive and effective manner. As well as this mission,
SBM aims to successfully fulfill many difficult duties such
as achieving a unity of practice over the sector, preventing
fraud and increasing trust for the system. In this scope, to
contribute to the improvement of Turkish insurance, SBM
carries out reorganizations within itself.
After meeting with all insurance companies in January,
it was decided to establish two separate committees,
consisting of IT department representatives of life and
elementary insurance companies. The purposes of
creating these committees were to share the experiences
of information technology managers in insurance business,
create a common synergy and improve the insurance
business.
Non-Life IT committee made four meetings until today. In
these meetings, which were attended by SBM and insurance
company managers, projects that were desired in SBM were
Anadolu Sigorta Assistant
General Manager /Non-Life
IT Committee Chairman
Mehmet Abacı wrote for SBM
IT Committee
will Speed-Up
Information
Flow
Mehmet ABACI
,
Anadolu Sigorta
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