Insurance Technologies, a provider of sales and regulatory automation solutions for the insurance and financial services industries, announced today the successful implementation of FireLight, an e-application business fulfillment solution, for Ohio National Financial Services (Ohio National).
The decision to integrate FireLight into their existing term life insurance new business processes allows Ohio National to provide their distribution channels a quick and easy way to submit new, complete, and "in good order" applications to the corporate headquarters.
After completing an evaluation of electronic application solutions, Ohio National chose FireLight for its ease of deployment, tablet support, speed to market, and line of business flexibility. In addition, FireLight provided the mobile accessibility that coincided with Ohio National's mobile business strategies. FireLight provides Ohio National producers a comprehensive electronic application management solution to effectively transact business and expedite the issuance process.
"With FireLight, we found a standards-based, mobile-ready electronic application capability to renovate an existing 10-year-old homegrown web-based process. Insurance Technologies worked very closely, quickly and effectively with us to update and move our existing processes to the new platform," said Paul Twilling, Ohio National Senior Vice President, Information Systems.
The administrative access within the FireLight platform allows Ohio National to utilize their internal resources to create, add or update any product at any given point giving them the flexibility to manage their own product offering. This also provides Ohio National the ability to expand the electronic application process for any line of business on a single platform across their diverse distribution channels for future growth.
"Insurance Technologies is excited to provide Ohio National a robust technology solution that not only seamlessly integrates with their existing back-end and front-end business processes, but also provides them the administrative tools to manage future lines of business within the same FireLight solution," said Jim Ferrell, Vice President, FireLight Product Management, Insurance Technologies. "We are also proud to have a prestigious life insurance company like Ohio National as part of the FireLight family. The implementation of FireLight at Ohio National was truly a collaborative effort culminating with an ACORD eLabel-based implementation, which allows Ohio National's producers to expand their sales opportunities and transact sales on mobile tablet devices."