"One-stop" financial help insurance companies speed data major focus

With the accelerated development of an integrated operation, providing customers with "one-stop" financial services is becoming the insurance industry competition in the new trend. The establishment of a centralized group of information technology platform, has become the realization of "one-stop" an important basis for the structure.

China Insurance Regulatory Commission Chairman Wu Dingfu recently in the China People's Insurance Research, pointed out that in order to information technology as a breakthrough point, the insurance industry infrastructure, to make full use of modern technology to integrate the management of resources. China Life Insurance (601,628, it shares) (601628.SH, 02628.HK) and Ping An of China (601,318, it shares) (601318.SH, 02318.HK), as a large concentration of data to the military, in the information technology system changes on , To play different music.

China Life chief information technology officer Liu Lin in the "Business News" interview that the new company with more than a "top-down" mode to focus, China Life adopted a "bottom-up" mode. It is reported that last year, China Life achieved the main core business data for the headquarters, built from the headquarters, provinces, cities and counties of the multi-tree network, covering the entire group of IT system has taken shape.

"Greater focus, the headquarters at any time for any country to see a certificate of insurance policies and financial information may be full control of all branches of the latest operation, so that centralized management possible, but also conducive to risk prevention, and the ability to monitor post To do ahead of time and without prior. "Lin Liu said. The data also increased the focus on the management of the emergency response capabilities, "in Wenchuan earthquake has been verified."

Last year, China Life officially launched the national data center construction, preparation, "the main one (that is, the production centers) a prepared (that is, Zaibei Center)," the two centers. "The future of the business model is based on data center for the platform, as a production center in Shanghai, Beijing, as R %26amp; D center in Shanghai at the same time also as a center Zaibei Center." Liu Lin case to introduce.

It is understood that, with China Life Center, the two different models, the China Pacific Insurance (601,601, and shares it) is to build the data center model will be used between Shanghai and Chengdu, two major production centers mode switch each other on a regular basis, to play down "one prepare a master ". The Chinese People's Insurance Information Center of the South, covering data, the three of e-commerce marketing and call center.

Insurance Group to build their data centers, data and the completion of the first large concentration of Chinese peace in the Zhangjiang Hi-running back-up center found that after 3 years, in terms of cost or management, the large integrated model is not the best model. China Ping Shen Min, deputy general manager told the media that five years later, his backup will be re-distributed to form a geographically dispersed, the internal operation of a unified operating system.

"Back-up mode is concentrated or dispersed, the business-to-market conditions and operating their own to make a choice." Liu Lin that.

However, Liu Lin also acknowledged that the data has also brought a large concentration of IT operations focus on risk, "after the concentration of risk in the event, it will be disastrous, so the effective control of a single point of IT operations risk, the data is large concentration of special Concern. "