Microsoft Financial Services Global

Zurich Insurance Group

Risk Management

With customers describing their needs in images, emails, and reports using their local language, Zurich Insurance Group recognized the challenge to translate unstructured data into a rules-based environment.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Westermann says, “The new GenAI capabilities allow us to build bespoke, multimodal tools that benefit our underwriters and customers. But even going beyond helping underwriters, we are driving GenAI adoption throughout the insurance value chain, ultimately supporting our customers to become more resilient.”

  • Customer Experience
  • Risk Reduction

Solution

With customers describing their needs in images, emails, and reports using their local language, Zurich Insurance Group recognized the challenge to translate unstructured data into a rules-based environment. Zurich Insurance Group turned to tools such as Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service for its advanced language AI, text-to-speech models, and highly secure, enterprise-grade Azure features. Zurich Insurance Group is developing advanced AI applications that lead to more accurate and efficient risk management evaluations, accelerating the underwriting process, reducing turnaround times, and increasing customer satisfaction. Working to get information faster, Zurich wanted to transform how and how quickly the company serves its customers, making real-time access to data and analytics critical to its mission.

Data flow

Content from enterprise documents and knowledge sources is ingested into Azure OpenAI Service, where it is indexed, enriched, or reasoned over before grounded answers are returned to employees through business applications.

Solution architecture

1 components · 1 layer
  1. Compute
    • Azure OpenAI Service Provides large language model inference for natural language search, drafting, summarization, and recommendations.

Architecture clues

  • Azure OpenAI Service: Provides large language model inference for natural language search, drafting, summarization, and recommendations.

Evidence from the source

Westermann says, “The new GenAI capabilities allow us to build bespoke, multimodal tools that benefit our underwriters and customers. But even going beyond helping underwriters, we are driving GenAI adoption throughout the insurance value chain, ultimately supporting our customers to become more resilient.”
With customers describing their needs in images, emails, and reports using their local language, Zurich Insurance Group recognized the challenge to translate unstructured data into a rules-based environment.
Working to get information faster, Zurich wanted to transform how and how quickly the company serves its customers, making real-time access to data and analytics critical to its mission.
Zurich Insurance Group is developing advanced AI applications that lead to more accurate and efficient risk management evaluations, accelerating the underwriting process, reducing turnaround times, and increasing customer satisfaction.
Zurich Insurance Group turned to tools such as Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service for its advanced language AI, text-to-speech models, and highly secure, enterprise-grade Azure features.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 61/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value61/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity16/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact0/25
    0 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale5/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    Zurich Insurance Group customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/19760-zurich-insurance-azure-open-ai-service
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Nov 15, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Nov 15, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.