{"id":68281,"date":"2016-04-25T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=68281"},"modified":"2016-04-25T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:04:28","slug":"kanetix-clientdesk","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/kanetix-clientdesk","title":{"rendered":"Kanetix, ClientDesk Partner to Help Insurance Industry Engage Customers Digitally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1694\/26366978890_4673a9da1c_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"196\" \/>Toronto&#8217;s Kanetix has partnered with ClientDesk to offer a new insurance solution to insurance providers, intermediaries and their customers a mobile self-service technology for policyholders that allows insurance providers to connect with their clients via a mobile app.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>A startup incubated at the DMZ, ClientDesk is a cloud-based solution that helps brokerages, broker-based insurers and direct writers digitize their client experience and internal operations using web and mobile technologies. The platform is built on three core modules: policyholder engagement, mobile self-serve and claims management.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a business strategy advisor at the Ryerson&rsquo;s DMZ, I&rsquo;ve been able to see the evolution of this platform from the beginning,&rdquo; says Andrew Lo, Chief Operating Officer, Kanetix. &ldquo;ClientDesk is enabling the insurance industry to engage with their clients on their mobile devices, something that Kanetix is pleased to be apart of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Innovative business solutions are needed in insurance,&rdquo; says Randy Carroll, Chief Strategy Officer, ClientDesk. &ldquo;Policyholders want an experience that is consistent with how they interact with other services and industries.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1999, Kanetix was Canada&#8217;s first online insurance marketplace and today provides over a million quotes per year to consumers looking for insurance, as well as comparisons for mortgage rates and credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>The DMZ is the top-ranked university incubator in North America and third in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s Kanetix has partnered with ClientDesk to offer a new insurance solution to insurance providers, intermediaries and their customers a mobile self-service technology for policyholders that allows insurance providers to connect with their clients via a mobile app. A startup incubated at the DMZ, ClientDesk is a cloud-based solution that helps brokerages, broker-based insurers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":68283,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-68281","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=68281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}