FBN Insurance, Nigeria Deploys 3i Infotech’s Insurance Suite

3i Infotech , a global technology solutions and services enabler today announced the successful implementation of their marquee product Premia™  Insurance Suite at FBN Insurance, Nigeria(West Africa). FBN Insurance (jointly owned by FBN Holdings Plc and Sanlam Emerging Markets, South Africa) is one of the leading Life and General Insurance companies in Nigeria.

3i Infotech and FBN Insurance commenced a lucrative journey in 2011 with the successful deployment of Premia™ Life solutions. The Life module streamlined day-to-day operations enabling FBN Insurance to exceed policyholder service expectations. FBN Insurance expanded their product offering and entrusted 3i Infotech with the deployment of Premia™ Group Life in 2013. 

Early in 2014, FBN Insurance entered the competitive General Insurance market through the acquisition of a General Insurance company. Once again, 3i Infotech was called on to deploy Premia™ General Insurance along with Document Management & Workflow solutions. These deployments were successfully concluded as per project timelines in January 2016.

Building on the strength of the relationship, FBN Insurance recently awarded 3i Infotech with a mandate to streamline Annuity operations through the deployment of Premia™ Pensions, and roll out an e-portal solution spanning both the Life and General Insurance businesses. This deployment is on track for conclusion mid-2016.
Through these solutions FBN Insurance has a competitive edge in achieving its business strategies through technology. 3i Infotech is proud to be a part of this growth journey with FBN Insurance.  


Looking ahead to 2016, 3i Infotech is poised to sustain its current successes & leverage opportunities in the Nigeria & other African Insurance market with its Premia™ Insurance Suite. 3i Infotech has extended its Insurance footprints with newer digital offerings enabling mobile Insurance, Tab Insurance, Web channel and other innovative tech led solutions. The company enjoys a major market share in the East and West Africa Insurance space and continues to be bullish on the insurance business as well as maintaining its leadership position in the sector.

BLK Super Specialty Hospital joins hand with Uzbekistan National Cancer Center

Known for its excellence in healthcare Industry, India’s leading BLK Super Specialty Hospital recently signed a MoU with National Cancer Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Association of Oncologists of Uzbekistan, which is country’s biggest oncology facility. Among others, the pact focuses on developing educational, scientific and medical cooperation to achieve excellence in cancer care. The MoU also focuses on the provision of medical diagnostics and consultation to the people of Uzbekistan with assistance from BLK Super Specialty for next three years.

The pact with Cancer Center is expected to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of cancer treatment as well as creating more opportunities for medical, diagnostic and counseling for population of Republic of Uzbekistan. Experts from BLK Super Specialty Hospital would also participate in development of joint international projects and conducting research on mutually agreed topics for benefit of both countries.

The MoU will also pave way for education and training of health professionals from Uzbekistan in India to exchange experiences and techniques.  It will also mend ways for organizing conferences, seminars, round table discussions and symposium on mutually agreed topics. Scientific articles, thesis and reports by professors and teaching staff shall be promoted at these occasions.


The pact is believed to be a breakthrough in the health care sector of Uzbekistan by many as the initiative by the New Delhi based hospital will lead to an increased number of medical professionals in country in the field of surgery, urology, cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology and therapeutic studies with the cooperation and initiatives. It is also believed to be beneficial in long term to promote better relationship between the two countries along with improving health standards worldwide.  

Winjit Cements its Accomplishment at Mobile World Congress 2016

To cement the exploratory conversations around their advance IOT delivery model at the prestigious Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Winjit Technologies unveiled their Winjit IoT GDM Developer & Business Partners Program.

The overwhelming exchange of ideas were centred around some of the unique features of the IOT GDM like its capabilities to provide visualisation, monitoring and control through tools that are easy to handle and can be easily integrated into the exiting systems, the ease with which it smoothens the interaction between smart application and services & its ability to incorporate security and privacy on every level with an unexposed OS.

The state of the art IOT Gateway facilitates deployment and management of smart and secure IoT Solutions connected through the cloud & offers the flexibility to innovate and transform business at an economical cost across multiple operating systems and protocols.

The IOT GDM Developer & Business Partners Program was one of the key highlights of Winjit’s third day engagements at the Mobile World Congress. For the starters, the Registration Kit includes:-

- Raspberry Pi-2
- Necessary cables
- Pre-configured Gateway
- User Manual
- Developer Manual

The Training schedule for Business Partners & Developers would be available on Winjit's website. The developers can register at http://winjit.com/winjit-iot-gdm-2/registration1/.

Some of the Program highlights for the Business Partners are:-

- Expert integrator for existing systems and application with Winjit IoT GDM
- Access to sandbox for compatibility check & open Source API’s
- Complete access to technical repository
- Quick Hands on Webinars, case studies & e-mail Support
- Pre configured starter kit & industry verticals templates for pilot projects

- Complimentary pilot consultancy

Accelya continues to manage IATA’s SIS e-invoicing initiative

Accelya, the leading provider of financial and business intelligence solutions to airlines, today announced that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has renewed the contract with Accelya Kale Solutions Ltd. (an Accelya group company) for managing its Simplified Invoicing and Settlement (SIS e-invoicing) platform.

IATA’s SIS e-invoicing is the industry platform that facilitates the electronic invoicing and settlement process by streamlining key processes, unifying invoicing standards, and reducing paper wastes, ultimately fostering a simpler and more efficient environment for airlines and aviation business partners to engage in business. The SIS platform is used by over 1800 participants (airlines, airports, vendors and suppliers to the airline industry) in 180 countries. In 2015, invoices worth $70 billion were settled through this platform.

Accelya’s engagement with IATA on the SIS project started in 2009 as the primary technology partner and since it’s go-live in 2011, Accelya has successfully managed the platform. Under the renewed contract, Accelya will not only continue to manage the SIS e-invoicing platform but also maintain its Disaster Recovery (DR) site.

Apart from SIS, Accelya has been involved with IATA's BSP (Billing and Settlement Plan) operations for over 36 years and is one of the largest BSP processing center to IATA. Accelya also supports BSPlink, IATA's comprehensive distribution platform for the BSP community. Accelya’s APEX^®- the Neutral Fare Proration engine (jointly offered with ATPCO), is the backbone of the First & Final^TM billing service offered by IATA.

3i-Infotech Executes One Of Its Fastest Insurance Projects At Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (MSI)- Dubai, part of the largest conglomerates in the world has selected 3i-Infotech flagship PREMIA General Insurance product.

Premia 11 is the most recent version, specially designed to bring operational efficiency through faster turnaround times. It is scalable enough to cater to ever growing business volumes, tightly integrated with the finance module and state of at art reporting. MSI recognized the team’s strength in the core insurance segment, comprising of all aspects of the insurance value chain along with their proven success in empowering reputed groups in the region in the past.

MSI decided to opt for Premia in line with the trust 3i-Infotech’s team had instilled in the expected business outcomes.  Right from the initiation stage, timelines were a major challenge, which was a daunting task for Premia’s implementation team. With a strategic plan in place, internal collaboration of our technical team and sales, a lot of research on deliverables expectedas well as close communication with MSI’s team, Premia’s team accomplished the project within the targeted timeframe.

MSI’s management has already started to witness the expected benefits in terms of readily available automated reports, which were required by their group on timely basis. They are quite happy the way Premia handles the entire operational flow, reducing their workload heavily and consistently maximizing overall productivity. 3i-Infotech’s team is confident that with Premia’s tightly coupled modules, MSI will be able to earn a quick ROI and empower employee performance levels across the organization.

Elitecore Showcasing 2 New Wins for Cable TV and Broadband

Elitecore, a global IT product and service provider offering Next-generation BSS, Packet Core and Carrier Wi-Fi solution, announces two major wins with leading Wireline Broadband Operators with its Elitecore Multiplay Service Management Platform (SMP) in India. The platform is an end-to-end convergent, real time and pre-integrated B/OSS solution which has over 10 successful case studies. The solution has enabled operators as well as their channel partners (Distributors, Retailers) to easily drive their business on a single stack supported by launch of innovative services.

The first win comes with a leading Pay TV operator who aims to provide innovative broadband services along with Pay TV solution on a single stack keeping their future road map and growth in mind. The solution has enabled the operator with Innovative use cases like Bandwidth on Demand, Volume on Demand, FUP based plans, Add-on Plan Subscription, Quota Management (Volume and Time Based), Real Time Notifications, Quota Roll Over plans etc for faster monetization.

The second success comes with a multi-billion dollar conglomerate present in more than 11 states and 50 cities in India. The operator was looking for a Robust, scalable and high-performance end-to-end B/OSS stack for smooth and quality operations for launch of Wireline Broadband Services. Elitecore enabled the operator with Multiple Mobile Apps for customers, partners, field force, agents & sales team apart from providing innovative use cases such as Volume On Demand, Bandwidth On Demand, Multi-Tier FUP, Application Based Plans, Event Based Plans etc.

Elitecore's Multiplay SMP supports Broadband, PayTV & VoIP on its convergent platform. It enables ISPs to easily drive their business on a single stack which includes modules such as Billing, Rating and Charging, Policy Management, CRM, Mobile and Web Portals, Product Catalogue, Voucher & Recharge Server, Payments & Collection, Provisioning, Alerts & Notification, Core Session Components (AAA, PCRF, IPLMS & DPI), Reporting tool and Captive Portals.

Elitecore Showcasing Monetizing capabilities for all IP Networks at MWC 2016

Elitecore Technologies, a global  provider of  Next-generation BSS, Packet Core and Carrier Wi-Fi solution, announces to showcase its Monetization capabilities for all IP Networks - 4G/LTE, Wi–Fi and Fixed Broadband at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.

Elitecore will showcase its pre-integrated and modular Telecom solution with successful case studies on: Integrated Revenue & Customer Management, Wi-Fi Monetization & Mobile Data Offload, Network Control & Monetization. The end to end platform can be deployed in-premise or on-cloud which comprises of Convergent Billing, Real-Time Policy & Charging, Product Catalog, CRM, 3GPPAAA, DSC, Captive Portal, Convergent Mediation, Real-time Analytics, Wi-Fi Service Management Platform, Advertisement Server, Mobile App and Web Self Care.


Elitecore Monetization Platform will help telecom operators with seamless connectivity between networks which in turn will empower create new revenue opportunities by delivering superior customer experience. A centralized product catalogue across all networks enables faster rollout of converged services and deliver out-of-the-box business modes such as Shared Wallet, Sponsored Data, Tiered FUP, Location based advertisement and services, Real-time contextual offers, Pay-Per-Use, Wi-Fi offload, Wi-Fi network discovery, Push notifications, Bundled LTE+Wi-Fi, VoLTE, VoWi-Fi, OTT based charging, Venue Wi-Fi, Bill-Shock Prevention, Turbo-boost, Time/Device based plans etc.