The development of insurance industry
Since the insurance industry sprout, flourish until today, it is always a stake in the industry and economic development.Economically developed countries or regions, the insurance market is growing rapidly, and vice versa counter.In recent years, with the rapid development of national economy, insurance companies, the main increase.According to China Insurance Regulatory Commission disclosed the data show that the insurance companies domestic business has reached 130.Countries through 2002, "Insurance Law" amendment to the scope of insurance companies to relax the use of funds.Subsequently, the domestic insurance giant would have opened the road of development group management.In 2008, China's insurance industry achieved a total income of 978.41 billion yuan of the original insurance premium, an increase of 39.1%.Domestic insurance market and the real beginning of a more vigorous vitality situation.
The level of the insurance industry information
The importance of information technology has gained broad consensus, in 2008 IT investment in China's insurance industry premium income accounting for the 5.6 ‰.Industry is in a stage of rapid development, the application of information is huge.
Trends and the changing needs of network
A data centralization, data center construction reached a climax
Data concentration, making the country a unified customer data, business version of a unified system, which has been the general trend.This means that the data will show the distribution of T H, that is, most data are concentrated in the upper body.Therefore, the need for a dedicated, professional place to store and protect data.Data center, disaster recovery center is therefore the construction of major insurance companies as one of the priorities of IT.These data not only about their own safety, will also affect the vital interests of many insurance clients, so the China Insurance Regulatory Commission has explicitly requested by the year 2010, domestic insurance company must build its own data center and disaster recovery center to prevent thekinds of disasters in the first place.
So, ask the network to meet the needs of more high reliability.
2 security framework and network level security
Security has always been an important business needs, and data concentration was to make this issue more prominent.Major insurance companies have gradually from the hardware infrastructure investment to the software and security investments, which is the development trend and the law.
Serious security problems, we know it has from a point, extended to the surface.In fact, not only in the technical or safety aspects of IT, but also includes systems, personnel, physical aspects of failure.There are many theoretical level security framework can help companies define or delineate the scope of security for enterprise information.
In the pure network level, the traditional understanding of network security for some of the development, more emphasis on linkage and association.The original is simply a single network device security concerns, at most, involves complex ACL, access to the password strength of higher exports.And security is a whole of any part is exist in isolation.Such as desktop anti-virus software, security is no longer just a matter, not just IDS intrusion detection thing.One of the points at issue, may lead to the collapse of the entire surface, while the issues and impact of these points, it is carried out through the network spread and amplification.Therefore, the entire security network which will be very important.Future levels of security based on network construction will be the focus, but its value is reflected in the more secure protection of the surface played an important role.
Specific to the network equipment, will be reflected in the demand for safety features.
3 flat trend in the network
Data set, making the original more than 30 branches scattered in the data, all the received data center.This branch of the computing tasks to smaller or no.The original network architecture, mainly from the administrative subordination of respect and the data transfer between the design.Now the data transfer between the central node has been weakened, such as cities in the network than just the physical play the role of connectivity and convergence.Again, not just insurance, banking, postal services, rural credit are flat in the implementation of the work.This original collaboration across business units, such as bank and insurance through its interconnection with both the export data can also be constantly on the ground level concentration of income.Can not only save costs, and management more convenient.
Therefore, flat network, will become the insurance industry or even the entire financial industry is very obvious trend.Flat network architecture and the end of the marketing services department or agency has not reduced the number of points, so the pool-side equipment performance and reliability will be more demanding.
4 standardized network management
Network standardization, standardization, the greatest value lies in the concept reflects the intensive, in line with business development needs.Especially for the traditional large insurance companies, the information from the data through a distributed, decentralized decision-making to the data centralized, centralized decision-making process.The standardization is a means to achieve this goal.Standardization of course, initiated and led by the Corporation to, which ensure that any optimization strategy to promote the program or there will be a full assessment process.This past practice has a very big difference.More than 30 branches across the country, the same needs, may make 30 kinds of programs, resulting in a waste of investment.Reasons are no uniform norms and standards, so losing its way.The normalization or standardization will help businesses better control IT implementation and construction strategies, programs.
Network construction and management standardization, not only will be reflected in the architecture, both hardware and software configuration will be reflected in the device, according to the grade of branch norms for classification.It also requires manufacturers need to be able to provide more close to the mainstream of the management interface, and a more stable product line.
Summary
Enterprise information networks are the most important platform for enterprises in a changing external environment, the organizational structure of the adjustment, the base platform inevitably need to be adjusted to meet the new requirements.Development of the network change is the phenomenon of change is the essence of their own.This is certainly not new ideas, any service in the business development needs of IT technology, to consider how to adapt to the needs of enterprise development, or how to promote the development of enterprises.So instead of this network in the analysis of insurance industry trends and changes in demand, it is more in the analysis of developments in the insurance industry itself.