NelsonHall names DXC a leader in Life, Annuities & Pension: Operational Transformation

DXC Technology was recognized by analyst firm NelsonHall as a Leader, its highest designated ranking, in five insurance categories in its NEAT™ Life, Annuities & Pension: Operational Transformation 2021 report.

This custom report presents the findings of the NelsonHall NEAT vendor evaluation for Life, Annuities & Pension: Operational Transformation in the Overall, New Business Setup/Underwriting, and Benefit & Fund Management market segments. It contains the NEAT graphs of vendor performance, a summary vendor analysis of DXC for life, annuities & pensions, and the latest market analysis summary.

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DXC Technology provides insurance-specific services across the Enterprise Technology Stack, including business process as a service and insurance software.  DXC’s capabilities were positioned as a Leader in:

  • Overall
  • New Business Setup/Underwriting
  • Benefit & Fund Management
  • Operations Transformation
  • Life Claims Administration

NelsonHall, a leading global analyst firm dedicated to helping organizations understand the “art of the possible” in digital operations transformation, has identified DXC as a Leader in the Overall market segment, as shown in the NEAT graph. This market segment reflects DXC’s overall ability to meet future client requirements as well as delivering immediate benefits to life, annuities & pension clients.

Leaders are vendors that exhibit both a high ability relative to their peers to deliver immediate benefit and a high capability relative to their peers to meet client future requirements.

NelsonHall has identified DXC as a Leader in the New Business Setup/Underwriting market segment, as shown in the NEAT graph. This market segment reflects DXC’s ability to meet future client requirements as well as delivering immediate benefits to life, annuities & pension clients with specific capability in new business setup and underwriting.

"DXC’s comprehensive digital portfolio will see continued growth, with specific expansion of digital customer experience capabilities, biometric integration in medical underwriting, and best-in-class new business setup solutions. Further development of digital solutions and digital transformation offerings will support DXC’s aim to enhance touch-less processing, reduce administrative costs, and improve customer satisfaction for life, annuities and pension carriers."

–    Ashley Singleton, NelsonHall Market Research Analyst

NelsonHall has identified DXC as a Leader in the Benefit & Fund Management market segment, as shown in the NEAT graph. This market segment reflects DXC’s ability to meet future client requirements as well as delivering immediate benefits to life, annuities & pension clients with specific capability in benefit and fund management.

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Overview (excerpted from the NelsonHall NEAT evaluation for DXC Technology)

DXC has ~25 years of experience in providing third-party administration services to life, annuities, and pension carriers in the U.S. market, with a recent expansion into Canada. DXC also leverages its breadth of insurance software and IT business solutions and capabilities to support its BPS offerings for LA&P clients. DXC reports ~4k FTEs dedicated to LA&P client engagements, utilizing both IP platforms and partnered solutions to offer comprehensive capabilities to carriers.

DXC provides a full complement of traditional BPO, BPS, and BPaaS services to life, annuities, and pension carriers in new business setup, customer administration and policy servicing, distribution support in licensing and appointments, and distribution compensation and commissions. Additional services include BPO and BPS support in acquisitions, transition services for closed blocks, unit value pricing and trading, policy conversions and system consolidations.

“DXC is very proud to be named a Leader in five insurance categories assessed by NelsonHall, reflecting our commitment to optimize and transform our customers’ business operations and ensure they achieve lower costs, increase agility and open new channels for growth. DXC’s Leader positions with NelsonHall also demonstrate the strength and breadth of our team delivering these services, many of whom hold insurance-specific designations.” 

–    Tom Pettit, President of the Americas Region, DXC Technology

Strengths

  • Ensuring biometric partnerships and incorporating data into the carrier's underwriting process
  • Serving as a licensed third-party administrator (TPA) in the U.S. and licensed broker-dealer in Canada, and utilizing this expertise in compliance and regulation
  • Providing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in DXC Assure for Life and Wealth, as well as partnered solutions to enhance the customer experience
  • Continuing to curate a growing partnership ecosystem that provides comprehensive digital and service offerings, for instance, health and supplemental capabilities to Life, Annuity and Pension (LA&P) carriers
  • Securing cloud-enabled solutions for TPA, BPS, and BPaaS client engagements to reduce operating costs
  • Investing extensively in talent skilling and expertise, and comprehensive proprietary digital solutions

Strategic Direction

DXC continues to evolve its TPA business through enhanced digital capabilities and aims to grow its portfolio of integrated insurance solutions through IP, acquisitions, and partnerships within the market. Currently, DXC offers a curated list of ecosystem partners to facilitate comprehensive offerings to LA&P carriers.

DXC will continue to centralize product development and externalization of calculations to speed product introductions and transitions and provide cost efficiencies.

DXC will focus investments on expanding customer engagement capabilities within the solutions utilized in both TPA and BPS and in IT to create additional back- and front-office efficiencies, including those achieved by providing end-users with additional easy-to-use self-service functionalities. DXC will also invest in expanding digital products while enabling modular implementations and seeking additional ways to capture, leverage and display data for analytics and business insights. This is an internal focus as a TPA and for the BPS offering, combining this development with automation and AI to reduce manual touches.

Outlook

DXC investments in IP and technology partnerships will grow in the digital solution portfolio, with a specific expansion of customer service administration capabilities. Look for increased implementations of customer experience modules and "CX-as-a-service" engagements. With the recent implementation of the TPA engagement in Canada, expect to see further enhancements to this client's systems and additional client engagements in this region.

Forward-Looking Statement
All statements in this press release that do not directly and exclusively relate to historical facts constitute “forward-looking statements.” These statements represent current expectations and beliefs, and no assurance can be given that the results described in such statements will be achieved. Such statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements, many of which are outside of our control. Furthermore, many of these risks and uncertainties are currently amplified by and may continue to be amplified by or may, in the future, be amplified by, the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and the impact of varying private and governmental responses that affect our customers, employees, vendors and the economies and communities where they operate. For a written description of these factors, see the section titled “Risk Factors” in DXC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, and any updating information in subsequent SEC filings, including DXC’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021.
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