Insurance on Internet

ABSTRACT



The Insurance on Internet is a web-based enterprise application that automates all possible business functionalities of the insurance sector such as providing information catalog of various policy types to customers, applying for a new policy, providing information of the companyâ„¢s authorized agents, and providing alerts to the policy holders for the policy renewals. As this is a web application, it supports the company in increasing the profits by reaching more number of customers round the clock (i.e. 24X7).



The Insurance on Internet application proposed to be implemented for an insurance company should implement the services for four types of users like Administrators, Agents, Policy Holders and normal users. The services that this system should support for these users are summarized below:



This system should provide the administrator with the convenience such as adding a new agent, view and manage the information about the agents, view the following reports by day-wise, weekly, or monthly: Number of polices filed by a particular agent. Number of polices filed by a particular region. Number of polices approved from a particular region. Overall the agents performance



This system should help the agents by providing the details online and provides a facility to search the policy holder records based on various options like based on the type of policy, location of the customer. It should allow the agents to set alert messages to the policy holders for the renewals/ changes in the policy rules etc. The agents should be able to post news on to the notice board.


3.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Processor : Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz.
RAM : 256 MB
Hard Disk : 40 GB and above

3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Operating System : Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server
Technologies : Java/J2EE (JDBC, Servlets, JSP)
Web Technologies : Html, JavaScript, CSS
Web Server : Tomcat 5.0
Database : Oracle 9i