Integration

In the life insurance industry, financial models—often built in complex spreadsheets—play a critical role in pricing, reserving, capital management, and strategic decision-making. These models are sophisticated, calculation-heavy, and require rigorous assumptions and projections over long time horizons. However, the very complexity that makes these spreadsheets powerful also makes them difficult to maintain, understand, audit, or transfer between teams—especially in the absence of proper documentation.

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It is not uncommon for multiple model developers to want to work on the same project. Changes made by each developer need to be added in to a central codebase to ensure there is always one source of the truth. Another common requirement is to be able to carry out code reviews, to check how one version of a model differs from the previous version, or to peer review an individual’s model developments.

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Abdi Ahmed

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.

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Security

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.

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