Sapiens Launches Closed Books Solution for the Greater European Insurance Market

HOLON, Israel, April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Closed Books is an end-to-end system specifically designed for cost- and process-efficient legacy portfolio administration 

Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with an emerging focus on the broader financial services sector, today announced the official launch and general availability of its Sapiens Closed Books solution for the European life and pension (L&P) insurance market.

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Already successfully in production at Wesleyan Assurance Society in the UK, the Closed Books offering from Sapiens is now generally available across Europe. Sapiens Closed Books is a unique solution for L&P insurers that is designed to provide a modern and cost-efficient platform for the administration of insurers' legacy portfolios. Whether the platform is chosen as part of an "Old-Co/New-Co" strategy or as an Old-Co consolidation platform, Sapiens Closed Books is ideal for addressing the administration of legacy portfolio challenges shared by most insurers.

Insurer benefits following the implementation of Sapiens Closed Books include significant cost reductions through legacy decommissioning and increased in-force policy to FTE ratios; improved operational and reporting consistency across all products; a single view of the customer, along with a consistent and quality customer experience; and significantly reduced reliance on a rapidly retiring legacy system skill-set. A variety of deployment and pricing options are available, offering flexibility to meet each insurer's specific needs, budgets and preferences.

"When looking to make processing our legacy portfolio much more efficient, we turned to Sapiens and the Closed Books solution," commented Liz McKenzie, Wesleyan's Group Corporate Services director. "Not only is the system a complete and modern solution to manage our closed books of business, but the expertise of the Sapiens team and the commitment to work with us through our closed books implementation demonstrated a true partnership between our organizations."

Highlights of the Sapiens Closed Book solution's capabilities include:

• Full support for post-new business functionality
• A product-agnostic approach supporting over 400 products across the insurance business
• Support for multi-jurisdiction and legislation
• Company layers, enabling multiple books of business to be logically split, or simply branded individually
• A unique, sophisticated and proven migration capability that deals with dirty data, minimizing the need for an expensive and time-consuming data clean-up effort

"Our Closed Book offering comes at a time when legacy portfolio management is becoming more and more expensive for insurers," said Henry Ainouze, vice president of sales and operations, Sapiens Europe.  "The impact of portfolio attrition and the ongoing need to support legislative requirements continue to drive up the unit costs per policy. Consolidation of legacy platforms on our Closed Books solutions enables insurers to reduce these costs and realize significant reserve release through de-commissioning of out-of-date, inefficient and increasingly expensive legacy environments."

About Sapiens 

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with an emerging focus on the broader financial services sector. Sapiens offers core, end-to-end solutions to the global general insurance, property and casualty, life, pension and annuities, reinsurance and retirement markets, as well as business decision management software. The company has a track record of over 30 years in delivering superior software solutions to more than 130 financial services organizations. The Sapiens team of over 1,000 professionals operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information: http://www.sapiens.com.

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