Polaris mapping for EDI formats
Polaris U.K. Ltd is owned and managed by the UK general insurance industry and exists to improve efficiency and reduce the costs of transacting business involving insurers and intermediaries. It achieves this primarily through the development and maintenance of insurance processing standards for business traded in the intermediated marketplace.
Polaris develops and maintains business process models for UK personal and commercial lines insurance, and supporting data standards covering policy related business processes (e.g. new business quotations, amendments etc.), claim notification/update and general business processes specific to the UK general insurance market to enable companies to transact business more effectively and efficiently.
These standards are used by insurers and broker software providers to build systems capable of sending and receiving data electronically with the aims of:
- Reducing the need for human intervention
- Cutting costs to the benefit of all parties
Mapping expertise
Through our partnership with GXS, Orbit UK has access to a vast body of mapping expertise. We have delivered a number of projects to our clients where we map between Polaris standard EDI formats and customer defined formats, such as:
- .CSV
- XML
- Flat-file
In addition we offer consultancy services to develop solutions to meet our customers’ needs and can draw on the resources of GXS to deliver these quickly and efficiently.
