General Overview
1. What is the What-If platform?▸
The What-If product is a portfolio impact analysis solution that enables business users to simulate premium impacts by applying rate changes against a Book of Business (BoB) without affecting production systems.
It helps actuarial, product, and business teams analyse:
- Premium impact
- Rate adequacy
- State-level impact
- Coverage-level impact
- Segment-level impact
- Portfolio-wide financial changes
2. What is the primary purpose of the What-If product?▸
The primary purpose is to evaluate how proposed rate changes impact an existing portfolio of policies before implementing the changes in production.
3. Does the What-If product modify production data?▸
No. The What-If product performs simulation and analysis only. Production data and production rate plans are not modified.
4. Is What-If a rating engine?▸
No. The What-If product orchestrates portfolio re-rating and impact analysis by leveraging the configured Rating Engine.
5. What is a Scenario?▸
A Scenario is a simulation setup containing:
- Book of Business data
- Selected product / plan / version
- Proposed rate changes
- Execution details
- Reporting outputs
Each Scenario represents a unique impact analysis execution.