Insurance partners

Solutions tailored to your needs

We develop commercial and non-commercial relationships with innovative, entrepreneurial and customer-focused companies and individuals, putting the end customer in touch with a whole bank of support and expertise.

Our intelligent and flexible data can underpin a wide range of tailor-made solutions and can be integrated with third party data to fulfil virtually every geographic intelligence need.

In essence, our partners add value to our data, and the quality of our data benefits our partners' solutions – all to the advantage of the end customer.

The Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System product suite allows Insurers to view and analyse global holdings of data quickly and centrally. Its ability to link with any corporate database and read over 100 data formats (including all Ordnance Survey datasets) without the need for translation makes it an ideal data warehousing solution for mission critical data.

Whether an inexpensive geographical viewer for visualising a portfolio is required or a full spatial querying Intranet solution, Cadcorp has products and expertise to suit these requirements.

Dotted Eyes staff are specialists in digital mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). We provide solutions for a wide range of markets – applying geography to business relationships.

Our products are the market leaders in processing OS MasterMap and other digital data sets, and we maintain national cover of virtually all Ordnance Survey data sets in our own databases. Our value-added digital maps, which are derived from those source data sets, are supplied with a setup programme containing the licence agreement which just requires a click to accept.

Location is vital in the insurance industry, whether it’s the location of an accident, the possibility of a flood or the assessment of a claim: the location of each of these needs to be taken into account. With its combination of tools and services ESRI^® (UK) Business Solutions offers solutions to meet the demands of the insurance industry.

• High-risk areas – identify those areas that are at high risk, such as flooding, by combining the tools in ArcGIS with Ordnance Survey topographic data.
• Risk assessment – using ProADDRESS^® combined with your high-risk data means that you can identify those properties that are truly most at risk.
• Claim assessment – calculate the shortest route for your assessors by combining street data with ProTERRITORY^®.
  

Insurers who are in control of their portfolios demand accurate and responsive tools from their IT infrastructure. GDC has developed technology to accurately locate risks and, using Ordnance Survey data, assess them against peril and lifestyle information. In short, GDC delivers geographic intelligence for the insurance industry.

ISL is a specialist supplier to the UK general insurance market that has been developing market-leading risk models and pricing tools over a number of years. These analysis tools gauge the risk of losses being incurred in relation to the main insured perils. Ordnance Survey is an important partner of ISL supplying complementary products that accurately georeference risks and maximise the benefit of geohazard analysis.

Mapflow helps insurers to utilise perils risk data (such as flood and subsidence mapping) provided by the government and other third parties, in conjunction with an insurer's own claims data, to improve the profitability of their Personal Lines and Commercial Underwriting. Mapflow's particular skill-set is in providing the tools and skills to implement accurate geographic risk assessment across all points of sale within an insurance organisation.

MapInfo's global location intelligence insurance services allow carriers, reinsurers, Lloyds syndicates, agent, brokers and reinsurance brokers to make informed business transactional decisions; assess, monitor, control and report the portfolio exposure; enhance market segmentation and penetration analyses; along with providing more effective efficient claims services. Predictive analytics and business data modelling along with web-service delivery options help insurance companies meet today's industry challenges.

MapInfo's UK services integrateOS Street View^®  and ADDRESS-POINT^®, your data including portfolio, policy, risk and other data to power location based decision making. Envinsa, MapInfo's web services platform allows clients to seamlessly integrate powerful functionality into business processes.

Flood risk analysis/pay-as-you-go vehicle tracking/ risk assessment and modelling/demographics/web services.

Through the company’s ethos of value adding to data collection, Overview has the ability to use information such as Land-Form PANORAMA^® and 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster to generate an accurate fluvial and tidal flood plain model. Recent developments include the development of our mobile phone tracking system (see www.verilocation.co.uk), allowing field staff to record details on the move with GPS accuracy or to track vehicle movement. Historical work includes offering Web services through our local information engine and risk assessment using demographic and household modelling aggregated to Code-Point^® level (individual postcodes).

QuickAddress^® software from QAS^® works with Ordnance Survey data to help insurance companies assess risk and manage fraud. By generating accurate addresses, QuickAddress enables insurance companies to map out areas of high-risk customers. It can help insurers to assess the risk associated with new customers and the validity of claims.

Sitescope Ltd is a leading UK provider of property and environmental risk information to lawyers, banks, surveyors, insurance companies, civil engineers and other property professionals. Our risk assessment data covers all major environmental risks and includes unique datasets essential to a full risk assessment.

Are you partner material?

We take pride in our partnership agreements with organisations representing a broad range of industry sectors. Together with our partners, whether individual entrepreneurs or multinational companies, we conceptualise and shape new products and create fresh revenue, markets and mutual opportunities. By becoming an Ordnance Survey Partner, you have the opportunity to grow your existing customer base and industry market as well as identify expansion opportunities, road-testing new business ideas while enjoying the rich benefits of being associated with a world-leading brand.

Our licensed partners work with us to create tailored solutions for their own businesses, which in turn add value to Ordnance Survey datasets such as the digital data OS MasterMap. By becoming a licensed partner, you work with us to create new markets and exploit mutual opportunities, accessing resources including marketing and technical help, a product insight programme, business development assistance and market intelligence to ensure you have the information, assistance and technology to boost your business and shape its future success.

Ordnance Survey's developer partners receive Web-based assistance in developing new business ideas and concepts, accessing our technical expertise and over £40,000 worth of mapping to transform raw vision into a marketable success. With access to our complete range of products as well as a series of data samples, you can use your developer status as a step towards becoming a full partner of Britain's national mapping agency, with a developed and defined business plan.

Find out more about becoming an Ordnance Survey partner