Case Study: ICEA LION launches products 6x faster with Coherent

ICEA LION cuts deployment cycles from 1 year to 2 months with Coherent

ICEA LION, one of the largest insurance and financial services groups in East Africa, faced a significant challenge in bringing new products to market. Their actuarial team built sophisticated and trusted models in Excel, but deploying them into production systems was a major bottleneck. This process required recoding the logic, was constrained by limited IT bandwidth, and involved long validation cycles that stretched product launches to a year or more.

Using Coherent Spark, ICEA LION was able to deploy its existing Excel models as API-powered services without rebuilding them from scratch. The solution from Coherent eliminated the need for translation work, accelerated testing, and gave the actuarial team more control. This resulted in deployment cycles being reduced from approximately one year to just two months, freeing up capacity for higher-value work and allowing the business to commercialize products faster across all channels.

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