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Sollers Consulting welcomed 200 representatives of the Polish financial industry at the Belvedere in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park.
The international presence of the Polish consultancy Sollers Consulting was one of the main talking points at yesterday’s wine tasting at the Belvedere in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park. 200 high-ranking representatives of the Polish financial industry joined Sollers Consulting’s traditional wine tasting.
The event was a chance for Sollers Consulting to share with its customers and partners the latest news about the company’s activities, especially the expansion of its operations into Germany, the UK and Scandinavia. Sollers Consulting has become an international company also in terms of its 450 employees, who now hail from 15 nations. “Our focus is on three strategic regions: Poland, German-speaking countries and the UK. We are also strengthening our presence in the Nordics,” said Michał Trochimczuk, Managing Partner of Sollers Consulting.
The home market continues to be the focus of the company, stressed Marcin Pluta, Managing Partner of Sollers Consulting. “Poland is and will always remain our strategic market,” said Pluta. When Sollers Consulting went abroad on its first projects, it was exporting knowledge from the Polish market. “Now we are increasing our knowledge on international projects and are completing the circle by bringing that knowledge back to Poland,” said Pluta.
Sollers Consulting has supported, among others, AXA, Aviva and ING Bank Śląski this year. The consultancy has implemented the Responsive Insurance Front-End (RIFE), which gives insurers easy access to all forms of digital product offerings. At Nationale-Nederlanden, it took only six months to make RIFE work. “Today, building customer portals requires a lot of development and takes time,” Pluta said. “RIFE is addressing that complexity, enabling insurers to configure products in a few days.”
Sollers Consulting has also been developing the rating engine Jetriff. Jetriff focuses on high-performance requirements. It enables insurers to provide a quote in an extremely short time. “Jetriff can compute over 1,000 complex premium calculations in less than a second, which is 100 times faster than what we have seen,” said Pluta. “It is like decreasing the travel time from Warsaw to Cologne from 2 hours to 1.5 minutes.”
The annual event was also an opportunity to introduce Grzegorz Podleśny, Sollers Consulting Senior Manager for the Polish and British insurance markets, in his new role as company Partner. “Grzegorz joined Sollers Consulting almost 15 years ago and most of you know him well from our most important projects in the Polish market,” Michał Trochimczuk reminded the guests. “He has also been the main driving force in our recent expansion into the UK market.”
The main focus of Sollers Consulting in all countries is the implementation of core systems. Sollers Consulting has the biggest Guidewire team in Europe. “Every third Guidewire-certified professional in Europe is working at Sollers,” Pluta said. Additionally, Sollers Consulting has the second-biggest implementation teams for the system providers Fadata and TIA. Sollers Consulting is among the few companies that can advise on choosing insurance core systems. On December 4 at the Innovation in Insurance conference in Warsaw, the company will discuss what should be considered when choosing a new core system. Several customers will join to present their own experiences, while top executives from Fadata, Guidewire and TIA will debate which system brings the most business value to their insurance customers.