This📘 Guide walks you through the key topics involved in setting up and maintaining your Novulo insurance solution. From getting started to configuring and going live.
Tip: use the table of contents in the right sidebar to navigate quickly.
Getting stared
Understand the fundamentals of the Novulo platform and how to navigate it.
Watch: our Novulo video serie on the core principles of the platform.
Using your insurance solution
- Novulo terminology
- Navigation in Novulo application
- Advanced sorting
- Languages in Novulo
- Exercise: Novulo navigation
Watch (2 videos): how to work with your Novulo solution.
Build your insurance application
Compose and deploy your application.
Recommended: Use model 10768 and dataset ‘Volmacht inrichting’ to kickstart your insurance solution.
This model includes among other things master data, templates, workflow configurations and REST endpoints tailored to suit your insurance solution. The functionality depends on the composition you make and deploy.
Functional configuration
Set up the business processes that define how your insurance application operates in these 10 steps.
Watch (9 videos): how to configure for insurance.
1. Product Setup
Define and configure insurance products, including coverage options, premiums, and underwriting rules.
- SUIV product (Standard Underwriting Insurance Variation). View demo
- Custom Product – WIP
2. Policy Request for new & existing clients
Manage policy requests, including client verification, requests via external platforms or websites and data input in the
- Back office (application) - WIP. View demo – WIP
- front end (Website/External) - WIP. View demo – WIP
3. Policy Assessment and Issuance
Review, approve, and issue policies while generating invoices seamlessly.
- Back office (application) - WIP. View demo
- Front End (Website/External) - WIP. View Demo - WIP
4. Policy Amendments
Handle changes to policies, such as coverage updates or updating insured objects. WIP
5. Renewals
Automate and manage policy renewals to ensure continuity of coverage.
6. Claim Submission
Facilitate the submission of claims through intuitive channels.
7. Claim Settlement
Efficiently process and resolve claims, ensuring prompt settlements.
8. Financial Processes
Manage premium collections, debtor administration, and reconciliation processes to maintain financial accuracy.
Watch (3 videos): how to configure financials.
9. Chain Communication
Streamline communication with external parties, such as brokers and insurers, to ensure alignment across the value chain.
10. Compliance and Reporting
Ensure adherence to industry regulations and generate branch-specific reports for compliance.
Help: Find more information on frequently-used-functionality.
Technical configuration
Expressions
Novulo has its own expression language. It is used for the development of components and for the configuration of applications.
Watch: how to work with expressions in dutch with cc.
1. Output
Generate documents, forms, notes, tasks, and letters (doc, docx, PDF, e-mail) based on data from your Novulo application.
- How to export data
- Data definitions
- Create an activity
- Document generation
- Exercise: activities with content blocks
- Exercise: classic activity templates
- Exercise: export
Watch (2 videos): how to configure output management.
2. Workflow
Workflows are used to automate application specific business processes. They can be triggered by the scheduling service; manually; or by components.
- Workflow configuration
- Workflow configuration details
- Run a workflow
- Add scheduled task
- Scheduling service queue
- Exercise: workflow
Watch (3 videos): how to configure workflows.
3. Interfaces
Your application receives ongoing data (incoming interfacing) from external systems and sends outgoing or bi-directional data (outgoing or bi-directional interfaces).
- REST endpoints
- REST API calls and authorisation
- REST tips and tricks
- Send data with API calls
- Using call parameters
- Understanding Migration, Interfacing, and Hybrid Integration
- Exercise REST API calls
Watch (2 videos): how to configure interfaces.
Watch (3 videos): how to access and add data.
4. Authorisation
Rights profiles can be used to restrict access to part of the application for one or more groups of employees.
- Rights profiles
- Merge rights profiles
- Sub-application for multi-tenant
- User management
- Exercise: rights profile
5. Reports
The Novulo Export engine allows exporting in different formats and with advanced filtering and sorting.
6. Data migration
Data migration is the process of importing and staging data into your application using templates, temporary tables, and structured imports.
- Understanding Migration, Interfacing, and Hybrid Integration
- Choosing between direct import and staging with temporary tables
- Import templates and imports
- Sequential imports
- Data collections
- Installing datasets
- Import definitions
- Advanced import definitions
Development
1. Component development
If you want functionality in your application, and there is no component available for it yet in the Application Server, you can use the Novulo Architect to develop your own component.
- Page layout and naming conventions
- How to dermine row sequence in Novulo
- Data modeling (UML)
- Expressions in Novulo
- Processes
- Concepts and features
- Quality assurance - WIP
- Auto testing - WIP
Watch (3 videos): how to work in the Novulo architect.
2. Plugins
You can activate, deactivate, or manage plugins per component to tailor behavior to specific business needs.
3. Debugging
Trace data flows, monitor component behavior, and analyze logs to identify and resolve issues during development or deployment.
Deployment and go live
Ensure that new features or changes are properly bundled, tested, and made available for end users in a controlled, production-ready state.
- Deployment via in-app Novulo Store
- The Novulo Composer
- The Novulo Deployment
- DTAP Best practices
- Which components and revisions are in your application
- Novulo Application Server
- System Health in Novulo
- Quality assurance - WIP
- Auto testing - WIP
- UAT - WIP
Maintenance
Monitor, update, and troubleshoot your application to ensure smooth daily operation. This includes managing logs, tracking data changes, configuring default values, and keeping the system clean and reliable over time.
- Application logs or mutations?
- Application logs
- Creating mutation records
- Default values for My Organization
- See where fields come from in Novulo applications
- Exercise: analytics