Powering profitable growth for insurance retailers and modern digital journeys for consumers, CDL Strata is the retail platform of choice for high volume, personal lines insurance.

Much more than a policy administration solution, Strata provides a powerful core system that is easily scalable, supporting multiple channels, branches, brands, and affinities across personal and commercial lines. Used by many of the UK's leading insurance brands, it delivers:

• Automation of the full policy lifecycle, from quotation, through purchase/billing to the generation and management of insurance documentation
• Efficient integration with price comparison websites via the CDL aggregator hub
• Advanced levels of consumer self-service through online portals enabling policyholders to complete over 90% of administration tasks without contact centre intervention
• Connectivity and integration with an extensive range of other systems and sources for data enrichment and IoT capabilities, eg connected home or telematics insurance
• Ability to support intelligent product recommendations, proactive insurance propositions and new models of engagement with the consumer
• Multi-channel capability on a single database, with quotations produced from any channel immediately available to buy online or via the contact centre
• Intuitive, web-based user interface for contact centre agents, ensuring minimal training time and 'next best action' prompts to maximise conversion rates

CDL is committed to pursuing a progressive development road map for Strata to ensure it remains a world-class insurance software solution into the future. Its continuous delivery release strategy gives customers faster access to new functionality. Emphasis is placed on driving retailer efficiency and ensuring an outstanding user experience, both for consumers online and for agents in the contact centre.

Multi-region, global deployment: CDL solutions are built to take advantage of the AWS global infrastructure footprint, which is the largest of any provider and continuously growing. When deploying CDL products to the cloud, there is the flexibility of selecting a technology infrastructure that is closest to the customer's primary target of users. The resilience capabilities allow CDL to architect solutions to provide a greater degree of fault tolerance.

AWS Region Support: CDL is able to deploy Strata to any AWS region that has the required AWS services. This allows customers flexibility around meeting data governance and sovereignty requirements.

Amazon RDS Support: CDL uses Amazon RDS as the database service for Strata as it gives engineers more time to focus on the things that matter to customers: improving the data marts, adding better indexing and performance tuning SQL, rather than installing, patching and backing up a fleet of databases.

CDL has currently deployed the following Amazon RDS engines:

CDL also utilises RDS features such as database snapshots, enhanced monitoring, performance insights and tight integration with IAM.

For more on CDL use of Amazon RDS, please see Achieving simple, consistent data modelling with Amazon RDS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): CDL Strata consists of a number of services. Each service is built with scalability as one of our core pillars and AWS Global Infrastructure enables companies to be extremely flexible and take advantage of the conceptually infinite scalability of the cloud.

This means that CDL no longer needs to over-provision physical kit in order to ensure capacity to handle business operations at the peak level of activity. Instead, CDL solutions can instantly scale up with the needs of our customers.

• RAC Insurance Moving to a platform with the resilience, scalability, data and digital capabilities to support ambitious growth and innovation goals
• Cogent Insurance Bringing administration in-house to ensure full control of the end-to-end journey for telematics customers
• Carrot Insurance Supporting Carrot to drive growth in the fast-moving connected car insurance sector

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