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At least in Western Europe, the big insurance companies are using mostly (Willis) Towers Watson's Moses (or are changing to Risk Agility FM) or Sungard's Prophe
by pvitz 11y ago
At least in Western Europe, the big insurance companies are using mostly (Willis) Towers Watson's Moses (or are changing to Risk Agility FM) or Sungard's Prophet. License fees are very high and everyone is basically locked in, because the models get developed over many years.
From my experience, the models aren't efficient. On one hand, the developers are very often actuaries without much understanding of efficient programming. On the other hand, the underlying software is old and doesn't take modern possibilities into account.
So, instead of taking a big risk and developing a new software themselves, almost everybody is buying more physical machines for their hpc clusters.
- wjnc 11y agoYeah, I am from the industry as well. We just keep piling on more machines for Prophet, with pretty nasty runtimes. But you know whats harder? Splitsing development between actuaries and programmers
- pvitz 11y agoIn my former job, we did the same. About splitting: It is at least in Moses/Rafm a big problem to have many people working on the same model. It seems like TW has never heard something about version control systems, and their newest team edition is a big joke...