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TUV Rheinland:
Wireless
Offensive
until 2020
German health insurance
provider optimises data
management with SAS
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s part of its global wireless strategy for
2020, the global testing service provider
plans to invest more than €40 million in its
wireless area in the next three years. These
funds will be used to develop the testing
facilities for future technologies, such as eCall
and NB-IoT and increase wireless laboratory
capacities as a whole. TUV Rheinland
experts already operate laboratories for
wireless communication technology and
IoT products in Europe and various other
countries around the world. With this
investment programme, TUV Rheinland
is strengthening its position in the rapidly
growing global IoT market and continuing
its successful course in this area.
“We already reached several milestones
of our wireless strategy in 2017 with the
acquisition of our wireless laboratory in
Lund, Sweden and the opening of our
new laboratory in Silicon Valley which, as
the ‘TUV Rheinland Center of Excellence
Wireless/IoT’, is now responsible for wireless
testing in North America, among others. The
same applies for the integration of 4ffCom,
with which we have been able to offer
our customers their own fully-automated
testing solutions (comprehensive testing
environment, CTE) since last year and is
an excellent addition to our services. Our
next objective is to become the global
one-stop-shop service provider for wireless
communication technologies,” explained
Stefan Kischka, Vice President of Wireless/
Internet of Things at TUV Rheinland.
The laboratory network in Europe is currently
being strengthened with further investments
in Cologne, Nuremberg, Leek, Milan and
Lund with intentions to become a strong
partner in the European IoT ecosystem.
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RAG Krankenversicherungs-AG, a
German health insurance provider,
has established a central data warehouse
with SAS, the leader in analytics, to supply
all the company’s organisational units
with the data they require. Using a portal
developed with SAS Enterprise BI Server,
departments at the insurer can access
comprehensive analyses.
“Using SAS, we’ve built a central platform
that allows us to distribute information
according to our needs. That gives us a
solid foundation for our medium-term
and long-term business planning,” said
Wolfgang Neuber, Project Leader at ARAG
IT GmbH.
ARAG Krankenversicherungs-AG has
relied on SAS solutions for 20 years.
Past projects include a joint effort
resulting in the successful migration
of the company’s enterprise wide
reporting system to a web-based
solution in addition to other innovative
IT projects focusing on business process
optimisation, automated processing
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and product profitability. Consequently,
ARAG Krankenversicherungs-AG had
already established a foundation for
fact-based controlling.
With SAS, the company now has a
consistent, centralised data warehouse,
making it even more effective in
reaching business decisions in the
areas of planning, analysis and
controlling. The SAS portal distributes
automatically generated information
to the corresponding departments. Ad
hoc queries receive fast answers and no
programming is required. In addition, the
company has created a single version of
truth by standardising terms, pre-defining
reporting standards and establishing
comparable and structured metrics.
“Especially in the insurance industry,
being able to access all the data in a
consistent way is so important – data
quality is a huge topic,” explained Kai
Fahlenbock, Director for Sales Insurance
in Germany, Australia and Switzerland
at SAS.
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