Applied Systems’ Broker Partner, OTIP, Recognized with 2018 Insurance-Canada.ca Technology Awards
March 07, 2018
Award highlights and celebrates the use of technologies that impact the insurance industry
Mississauga, ON – March 7, 2018 – Applied Systems congratulates its brokerage partner OTIP on its 2018 Insurance-Canada.ca Technology Award for “Capturing the Digital Age Customer.” OTIP built their digital customer experience on Applied Epic, the world’s most widely used brokerage management system, as its foundation to increase digital marketing and customer engagement.
In the last two years, OTIP embraced a journey of digital transformation to redefine the customer experience. This came with a significant organizational commitment to challenge the status quo and commit a 40-year-old brokerage to work differently. The brokerage formed an Innovation Hub to establish core agile practices with an innovative mindset to succeed or fail fast. With Applied Epic as its foundation, OTIP formed a new Digital channel allowing its customers the flexibility to interact with the brokerage in their preferred way.
Applied Epic delivers the most technologically advanced software to brokerages to enable faster growth and profitability in a changing insurance marketplace. Applied Epic provides a single, integrated application for brokerages to manage all of their customer relationships, policy and benefits administration, and financial accounting more efficiently. The system seamlessly integrates other applications and provides scalability for brokerages with multiple locations to manage expansion and business growth. Applied Epic delivers a comprehensive view of client information and internal operations through an intuitive user interface, enabling users to make more informed decisions about their business and capitalize quickly on new opportunities.
“More leading brokerages are taking advantage of industry developments and embracing technology to satisfy changing consumer demands,” said Jeff Purdy, senior vice president of International Operations, Applied Systems. “In adopting new technologies and changing the company’s mindset around innovation, OTIP is leading the way in engaging and retaining digitally-savvy consumers to drive business growth. We congratulate them on their well-deserved industry recognition.”
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Applied Systems is a leading provider of software that powers the business of insurance. Recognized as a pioneer in insurance automation and data exchange between brokerages, insurers and their clients, Applied is the world’s largest provider of agency and brokerage management systems. Automating the insurance lifecycle for more than 12,000 agencies and brokerages and 450 insurers worldwide, Applied enables millions of people around the world to safeguard and protect what matters most.