DGAP-News: msg life ag / Key word(s): Incoming Orders msg life ag: msg life wins contract to introduce msg.Life Factory at UNIQA 22.12.2016 / 12:17 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- msg life wins contract to introduce msg.Life Factory at UNIQA UNIQA Insurance Group will soon be working with key components of the msg.Insurance Suite (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 22 December 2016) - UNIQA Insurance Group (Vienna) has decided to introduce the policy management system msg.Life Factory along with other key components of msg.Insurance Suite (msg.I- Suite) for its life insurance business. Besides the leading European policy management system msg.Life Factory, the components will include the standard software modules msg.Billing (collections/disbursements), msg.Commission (commission) and msg.Partner (business partners). The project is part of a wide-ranging investment and innovation programme at the UNIQA Group. In this context, UNIQA is renewing the IT system environments in health and non-life insurance, as well as in its life insurance business. The planned new health insurance component comes from innovas GmbH, also a subsidiary of the msg Group. As with msg.Life Factory, this component is also part of the cross-sector insurance platform msg.Insurance Suite. Contractual arrangements provide for IBM Österreich GmbH to assume the role of general contractor for UNIQA, with msg life supplying and implementing the product as a subcontractor of IBM. For many years, msg life has had a close and very successful technology and implementation partnership with IBM. Besides the introduction of the corresponding msg life components, the contract for msg life includes the migration of UNIQA's life policy portfolio in the Austrian market. Work on the project is due to start soon and will take four years in total. The UNIQA Group intends to use the project to develop its leading role in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe and to create a state-of-the-art strategic IT platform - above all in view of ever- increasing digitisation. With UNIQA, msg life has acquired another leading insurer in the Austrian and Central and Eastern European insurance market after Helvetia Österreich as a new customer for its European market-leading core product msg.Life Factory. About msg.Life Factory The upgradable standard software package msg.Life Factory supports the business processes of life insurance companies in their business with private customers and of pension fund institutions - from new business to benefit processing and accounting. Thanks to the consistently service- oriented architecture (SOA) based on Java JEE, the system is perfect for integration into the IT landscape of an insurance company. Additionally, the solution supports a myriad of Internet-capable end devices. All business processes can be carried out completely automatically, or also be relocated closer to the front end or the point of service. Integration into existing brokerage or end user portals has been predefined in the system and is therefore realisable within minimal integration costs. In combination with the newly developed actuarial components msg.LF Product as well as the contract components msg.LF Contract, the latest tools and methods enable the solution to offer a level of flexibility and efficiency which are unique on the life insurance market. msg.Life Factory JEE was successfully implemented in the IBM PureSystems platform (IBM PureApplication System) and was certified as 'Ready for IBM PureSystems' by IBM itself. About msg.Insurance Suite msg.I-Suite represents the first holistic industrial standard for all sectors of the insurance industry. The platform covers and integrates all necessary system components for an insurance company. Its underlying component architecture is characterised by a high degree of end-to-end prefabrication, makes it easy to integrate existing solutions and features a wide variety of potential applications with high releasability and low maintenance costs. Over the past few months, msg life had systematically developed the key life components of msg.I-Suite on the basis of Java JEE in service-oriented architecture (SOA). In light of the recent sales successes and the promising sales pipeline, the company feels confirmed in its strategic orientation within the msg Group and expects additional positive stimuli in this context in the future. About UNIQA The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Some 21,300 employees and exclusive distribution partners support roughly 10 million clients in 19 countries. UNIQA is the second-largest insurance company in Austria, with a market share of more than 22 per cent. In the CEE growth region, UNIQA is at home in 15 markets: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary. Insurance companies in Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein also form part of the UNIQA Group. About msg life As part of the independent, internationally active msg Group, msg life ag and its subsidiaries are among the leading software and consulting companies for the European insurance sector and concentrate primarily on life insurance companies and pension fund institutions. Their products and services range from standard software through consulting services to the assumption of responsibility for IT operations (cloud solutions). The msg life Group has its head office in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne, plus subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal and the USA. It currently employs a workforce of over 900. Contact msg life ag Corporate Communications Frank Fahrner Humboldtstrasse 35 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Tel.: +49 (0)711 949 580 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.msg-life.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.12.2016 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: msg life ag Humboldtstraße 35 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Germany Phone: +49 (0)711 94958-0 Fax: +49 (0)711 94958-49 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.msg-life.com ISIN: DE0005130108 WKN: 513010 Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 532611 22.12.2016