The nature of the service was to
target business users rather than consumers. To codify the product information (like
health insurance), various insurance details such as insurance coverage, indemnities,
payments, covered risks, damages, bonuses, and tariffs needed to be formally
speci?¬?ed for each product and made available for analysis and comparison. The
platform then provided the common parts, such as those dealing with money and
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payments. The speci?¬?cation of insurance products was not simple since insurance
products have a lot of detail and differences among similar kinds of products from
different insurance companies were of great interest. In addition, each product is
usually related to other insurance products from the same provider and thus combined
insurance packages needed to be speci?¬?ed too.
The speci?¬?cation work was seen as considerable since the portal would include
hundreds of products, and they all would need to be speci?¬?ed formally so they could
be compared and analyzed in the future. The domain of insurance products also
evolves, requiring modi?¬?cations to already de?¬?ned products and also new products
that are de?¬?ned based on market situation, legislation, and so on.
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