Integration – Interface

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.

10th December 2024

Using a Web Data Source with Mo.net 7.7

Back in January, I outlined an approach for sourcing model assumptions at run time using a web data source. This approach used some custom code and a third party DLL to connect to the data source endpoint and digest the response. Following the release of Mo.net 7.7 this has just become much more straightforward.

28th November 2024

Mo.net Quotations Service Enhanced Security Features

Mo.net Quotations Service can be integrated to work with Quotation portals, Policy Admin Systems, Underwriting systems and a variety of other systems in use across the insurance enterprise. Until recently, clients using Mo.net Quotations service have typically hosted it on premise for internal use and therefore required limited security features. However, with the increased mobilisation of activities to the cloud, security has come under much more scrutiny.

6th June 2024

Unlocking Efficiency: Benefits of the Origo Messaging Standard

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the insurance industry, efficient and secure communication between stakeholders is more critical than ever. The Origo Messaging Standard has emerged as a powerful solution to streamline these interactions, particularly for insurance contracts.

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.

1st February 2024

Is Everything Under Control Yet? A Renewed Focus on Assumption Management

Despite the importance of assumption management, many organisations still struggle to find a robust yet flexible solution to the problem and lack an effective assumption management framework.

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”.

8th August 2023

Overriding Task Inputs from Python

As part of Mo.net 7.6, we have extended the external interface to compiled Mo.net tasks so that it now accepts a Python list. This update allows a new array of inputs to be passed from Python to the compiled Mo.net task DLL without having to create an intermediate inputs file.