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Eric S . Poe CEO , CURE Auto Insurance and Cade Cunningham , Detroit Pistons
ROI over a five-year period , Benalan illustrated the value of his proposed changes and convinced CURE ’ s various business units and key stakeholders . “ The application design is a microservice architecture pattern , also comprised of small reusable services running in AWS cloud . It has a disaster recovery zone and a highly scalable database for faster performance . The application connects to complex third-party integration services with REST API . The design also has database replication for live reporting , where tools like Looker are used to slice and dice the data for the customised dashboard . One example is our use of the DocOrigin tool for designing complex insurance forms , which has increased accuracy and efficiency .”
At the same time , Benalan is establishing best practices for quality agile development . Since some of the integrating modules are out-of-the-box solutions with little flexibility for customisation , Benalan and his team architected expandable interfaces that were quickly implemented and accepted throughout the business . The CURE CIO keenly recognises any technical transformation has to be accompanied by a culture change . “ The most important factors to this project ’ s success were user awareness and corresponding training
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