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The Evolution of Coherent Spark & AI

Revolutionize your business with Coherent Spark's AI-powered insights, transforming spreadsheets into actionable intelligence for informed decision-making and continuous improvement.

Running on Excel and Prayers: Signs You've Built a Shadow IT System

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From Cells to Sales: Speed Up Insurance Product Development with Excel and AI

If you’ve ever been involved in bringing a new insurance product to market, you’ve likely seen this before: It starts with a great idea, and pricing ...

How Global Insurers Are Scaling Excel Models with Coherent Spark

Across the global insurance industry, the most important business logic still lives in Excel.
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AI, Automation, and the Future of Underwriting: Notes from the Field

What happens when your pricing data and workflows can’t keep up with the pace of change?

Handle High-Volume Models with Coherent Spark’s Batch APIs

You’ve likely heard—or even participated in—the ongoing debate: spreadsheets or Python? Spreadsheets offer flexibility and ease, while Python ...

The Silent Tax of Manual Rating & Pricing in Group Benefits

Some business costs are obvious: salaries, technology investments, operational expenses. Others remain hidden, buried inside inefficiencies that ...

The End of Fragmented Underwriting Processes: Unifying Rating & Rules

What happens when a customer applies for insurance, but the pricing model and underwriting rules don’t align?

How Actuaries Can Take Control of Illustration Logic Without Coding

Illustration systems are fundamental to life insurance – they connect actuarial pricing, sales teams, and policyholders. Yet for many insurers, ...

Why Group Benefits Pricing Feels Like Groundhog Day (And How to Fix It)

Every year, group benefits pricing can leave insurance professionals feeling a bit like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day – stuck in a loop of ...
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Breaking the Excel Barrier: Why Banks Need a Proactive NFR Strategy

The world of banking is a high-stakes game of risk management, and yet, some of the biggest risks don’t come from cyber criminals or market crashes. ...
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Introducing Coherent Assistant, Excel's New Best Friend

Remember Clippy? The little paperclip that popped up in Microsoft Office, always ready to help – whether you wanted it to or not? While Clippy had ...
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Transform Insurance Rating Models into Scalable APIs with Coherent Spark

If you work in insurance, chances are you’ve got mission-critical rating models sitting in Excel files. These models do the heavy lifting – ...