STATE is a key brand of IAG New Zealand which is New Zealand’s largest general insurer, with over 2,000 employees and a nationwide network of sales centres, branches and call centres.

As part of a program of work to drive continuous innovation into the business, XSOL worked closely with the STATE Business Improvement team - providing business process software and consulting services.

“XSOL enabled us to map our end to end insurance service processes from quote to claim in just 9 weeks” says Christine Beckett, Business Process Improvement Manager for STATE. “Because the software is easy to use; provides a great structure, but is immensely adaptable, it facilitated great collaboration within mapping workshops enabling us to capture, amend and agree our processes rapidly. With our processes now published and easily accessible to the whole organisation, we have a great foundation on which to develop process training and model innovative changes to our business operations”

“For our part,” says Pete Maung, XSOL COO, “we are delighted to be working with a market leader such as IAG. Their commitment to process-based transformation is a trend we see emerging across the marketplace, and we look forward to the productivity dividends that will follow for New Zealand.”

The STATE team are anticipating further gains from XSOL software by implementing XSOL Automation to further embed their innovation process and continuous improvement into the business.

The IAG Group was placed in the Davos Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable organisations.

This year Coventry University are offering future business leaders a new dimension to their education.

Under the direction of Dr Emanuel Gomes, Coventry's Masters in International Business course prepares students for international management, developing their ability to think strategically, communicate effectively and execute complex business projects within the global business environment.

To help students visualize and understand the dynamics of the issues that will confront them as business managers, the university has selected XSOL software to underpin the Strategic Business Transformation component of the course.

"We could immediately see the value that XSOL's structured approach to collaboration, discovery and communication of business processes would bring to the programme," said Dr Gomes. "In a global business environment, the ability to adapt quickly requires high levels of visibility and clarity in these areas. This is where XSOL can assist organisations trying to improve their business operations."

XSOL CEO John Blackham added, "The issues that Coventry University are addressing are critical for business in the 21st century. Managers must fully comprehend processes for which they are responsible so that they can respond to changes in market conditions effectively. XSOL is delighted to be involved with Coventry University in this challenge."

The new MSc programme will be running from the end of September, 2008. The course has two intakes each year, with the next one being February, 2009.

XSOL has been named one of NZ’s 25 most strategically important ICT firms in CIO Magazine’s annual survey - published November 2007.

This list, featuring “vendors that CIOs and their C-suite colleagues can not ignore”, was selected by an International panel of judges.

Appointment to APEC Business Advisory Council - 29 August 2007

Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced the appointment of John Blackham as one of New Zealand's three representatives on APEC's Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

"John Blackham is the Chief Executive of software company XSol Limited. He brings extensive experience of working in the high end information technology sector in New Zealand to ABAC," Helen Clark said.

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Former Microsoft researcher joins XSOL team - 29 June 2007.

New Zealand’s leading process software company, XSOL, has recently welcomed a new senior developer to their team.

Simon Corston-Oliver recently returned to New Zealand after nearly thirteen years living in the United States.

Corston-Oliver spent ten years working at Microsoft Research, Seattle, in the areas of computational linguistics, machine learning and web search.

With a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of California, he holds eight patents and has published more than 30 academic papers.

Corston-Oliver chose to work for XSOL as it would give him a chance to stretch his abilities.

He is excited to join the XSOL team, where he will be assisting with the development of the “next generation of XSOL’s flagship products”.

“The idea of going from a description of a business process to 90,000 lines of SQL code at the push of a button, that’s ambitious,” he says.

Since starting at XSOL, Corston-Oliver has been familiarising himself with the system. “It’s at a far more advanced stage than I thought it would be,” he says.

He looks forward to concentrating on building up an entire system rather than doing a number of smaller projects with no overall view.

Corston-Oliver says XSOL’s software is “incredibly innovative” and expects it will make a “profound impact in the IT industry”.

“What XSOL is doing is very cutting-edge,” he says. “I’ve been impressed by the coherence of it – everyone at XSOL has a very good idea of what they’re trying to achieve.”

XSOL Partner Success in the UK and Holland - 15 May, 2007.

In Holland, XSOL Channel Partner, KMO www.kmo-ict.nl, have made initial sales to several Consulting organisations.

“We began working with XSOL late in 2006, with a focus in the Benelux marketplace,” said Richard Kickert, Director of KMO.

“There’s been a huge amount of interest from organisations looking to manage change and optimise business processes. We’re delighted to see the first of these ‘powering up’ with XSOL software.”

In the UK, the team at Red Admiral Consulting www.redadmiralconsulting.com have been working with XSOL for some time, with a goal of delivering business transformation to their clients.

“From inception, we saw the XSOL proposition as core to delivering on that vision.” said Red Admiral’s founder, John Kopij. 

Recent clients have included companies in the IT sector. “In this area,” John adds, “managers can easily relate to the business benefits of visibility and adaptability that XSOL delivers.”