Business Excellence

20th February 2025

Automation Testing at SAL

As the SAL platform continues to mature and grow and exciting new features are brought to market, ensuring that current functionality continues to work as intended becomes more important with every release. Manual testing continues to serve us very well here at SAL but a good testing practice requires a blend of automation and hands-on checks. We’ve been using an in-house bespoke automation tool to regression test our core product Mo.net Model Development Studio but have been in the market for a more comprehensive solution that offers reporting and ease of use for test development across the entire SAL suite of products.

6th September 2024

Model Validation with Mo.net

As the complexity of models used by insurance enterprises continues to escalate, and the reliance placed on such models continues to grow, the importance of ensuring that models operate as intended comes under increased scrutiny.

11th June 2024

5 Minutes With… Pamela Hellig

Today, I’m excited to sit down with Pamela, Head of Insight Life Solutions to discuss her insights into the actuarial profession and her team’s experience with Mo.net.

18th March 2024

Delivering Pensions Dashboards with Mo.net

This blog article introduces our latest paper, which presents a Mo.net powered solution that offers a streamlined approach for pension providers to align with the dashboard’s requirements.

23rd January 2024

Consuming a Web Service with Mo.net

Responding to a request from an existing client who wanted to connect their current Mo.net-based front office illustration platform with a new underwriting system, this blog article demonstrates how external API data sources can easily be used in a Mo.net model.

11th January 2024

The Potential of GPU-Based Financial Modelling

For years, there has been discussion about the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to enhance the performance of financial models. Can GPUs represent a significant leap forward in the performance of financial models, or do the challenges and overheads outweigh the benefits?

14th December 2023

How to Start Planning for Pensions Dashboards

Drawing from our recent experiences in assisting clients with the design and implementation of pension dashboard solutions, this post outlines how we’ve supported them and provides valuable tips on becoming “dashboard ready”.

23rd October 2023

Best Practice Techniques for Scaling Your Models

The demanding regulatory environment increasingly places challenging stipulations around the number of model runs required and the timeframe in which results are to be produced. Combined with the ever-increasing volume of data that most insurers wish to process this can drive the need for a scalable model solution.

28th September 2023

5 Minutes With… Cornelius Franken

Software Alliance’s Su Berry spends 5 minutes with Cornelius Franken of CJF Consulting to discuss his experience with Mo.net and the benefits it has brought to his actuarial modelling processes.

19th September 2023

Why Do Actuarial Modernisation Projects Fail to Deliver Their Expected Benefits?

Despite the insurance industry’s historically slow adaptation to change, recent years have witnessed numerous efforts to modernise the actuarial function. Several of these initiatives have gained significant traction. However, many still fail to deliver on their anticipated benefits…