Insurance
Building a modern data platform for a global specialty insurer
Building a modern data platform for a global specialty insurer
Technology, innovation and continuous improvement have always been key to the insurer’s success. To help them in their latest innovation initiative, the insurer has partnered with Marionete to re-invent the way data is managed.
A leading global insurer recognised the opportunity to modernise its legacy estate, unlock greater value from its data and strengthen decision-making across the business.
With more than 15+ years of platform evolution, the organisation had built an extensive data landscape. The next step was to make that data more consistent, accessible and better aligned to core business processes, enabling faster and more reliable decision-making across underwriting, claims and regulatory reporting, while positioning the business to scale more effectively and respond more quickly to market opportunities.
To address this, the organisation partnered with Marionete to design and deliver a modern, cloud-based data platform, aligned to a federated data product operating model. This approach embedded data ownership directly within business domains, ensuring data is created, managed and consumed where decisions happen.
The transformation focused on enabling real-time, domain-driven data access, unifying operational and analytical workloads and shifting from fragmented reporting to trusted, reusable data products. This allowed the business to accelerate time-to-insight, improve consistency and unlock advanced analytics capabilities.
The platform has since been industrialised across multiple domains including cyber underwriting, policy administration and finance, delivering measurable value early and enabling scalable adoption across the organisation.
Business impact
- Enabled underwriting of complex and higher-value risks through improved data availability and insight
- Supported £5B+ in premium quotes growth within cyber insurance through enhanced data-driven decision-making
- Accelerated time-to-insight by introducing real-time data processing capabilities
- Delivered production-grade integration of core policy administration systems into Guidewire.
- Increased data accessibility across the organisation, with hundreds of users accessing thousands of data assets.
- Reduced reliance on legacy systems, contributing to simplification and cost efficiency.
Main features
- Federated data product platform – Domain-aligned teams own and deliver data products embedded within underwriting, claims and risk processes, enabling direct alignment between data and business outcomes
- Real-time and streaming data capabilities – Continuous ingestion and processing of structured and unstructured data, enabling faster decision-making and reducing time-to-insight across the insurance lifecycle
- Unified operational and analytical workloads – Consistent data pipelines powering both business operations and advanced analytics use cases
- Data governance and quality framework – Strong guardrails across ownership, lineage, quality and policy ensuring trusted and compliant data at scale
- High-value business use cases – Delivery across cyber underwriting, policy administration integration and regulatory reporting, supporting both growth and compliance
- AI and machine learning enablement – Extraction and enrichment of unstructured data (e.g. broker submissions), enabling improved underwriting speed, risk modelling and claims processing