The team needed speed without sacrificing governance.
Core Specialty's E&S Property division needed a secure sandbox for its proprietary risk models. Corporate IT was firmly on Azure and unfamiliar with Alteryx, which created governance friction that threatened to delay every quote and renewal.
The business problem was not simply, "Can we run analytics?"
It was: How do we give a lean underwriting team the freedom to move quickly while keeping the environment secure, governed, and compliant?
Core Specialty did not need a generic reporting environment. They needed a secure analytics hub that could support governed workflows, fast model execution, real-time visibility, and underwriting decisions at the pace of the market.
Specialty underwriting needed infrastructure that matched the speed of the business.
E&S Property underwriting depends on fast, informed decisions. The team needed to evaluate niche property risks, run complex models, and respond to brokers without waiting on slow manual processes or rigid infrastructure approvals.
For Core Specialty, the challenge was balancing speed and control. The environment needed to be secure and compliance-ready, but it also needed to let the data analytics team develop, publish, and run workflows quickly. KEYSYS helped create that operating layer.
"As a startup, the data analytics team needed a secure Data Estate that was well-governed, but remained nimble."
A governed AWS data estate with Alteryx-powered workflow automation
KEYSYS helped build and manage a secure AWS data estate for Core Specialty, including FSx file shares, RDS SQL, S3 backups, and Amazon WorkSpaces. On top of that infrastructure, KEYSYS deployed Alteryx Server and Worker for parallel processing.
The environment integrated Azure AD, SharePoint files, and Power BI dashboards, giving the team a centralized platform for secure analytics development, workflow publishing, and live business insight. KEYSYS also served as a fractional CTO to E&S Property, overseeing change control, job scheduling, and 24/7 health checks.
Instead of forcing the team to choose between speed and governance, KEYSYS helped create a system where both could exist together.
- → Secure AWS data estate for governed analytics
- → FSx file shares, RDS SQL, S3 backups, and Amazon WorkSpaces
- → Alteryx Server and Worker for parallel workflow execution
- → Azure AD integration for secure access control
- → SharePoint file integration for existing business data
- → Power BI dashboards for live operational insight
- → Fractional CTO support for change control, scheduling, and monitoring
From manual analytics to governed underwriting workflows
KEYSYS helped create a secure AWS environment where underwriting data, files, models, and analytics workflows could operate together.
Alteryx Server and Worker allow the team to process complex models faster through parallel workflow execution.
Dashboards provide visibility into underwriting data and help the team make faster, better-informed decisions.
KEYSYS supports change control, job scheduling, and 24/7 health checks so the environment remains reliable and compliance-ready.
What once depended on manual analytics, data silos, and lengthy approvals now runs through a centralized analytics hub built for speed, governance, and underwriting execution.
Underwriting workflows now run 5x faster
Core Specialty's underwriters can now ingest exposure data at scale, run complex models in minutes, and deliver same-day quotes inside a fully compliance-ready environment.
- Alteryx-driven workflows made underwriting processes 5x faster
- Complex models now run in minutes instead of creating delays
- Secure AWS data estate supports compliance-ready operations
- Change control, scheduling, and health checks keep workflows reliable
- Power BI dashboards stream live insights to the team
- Underwriters can quote faster with better visibility into exposure data
- Data analytics depended on siloed information and manual workflows
- Corporate governance slowed quote and renewal processes
- Proprietary risk models lacked a nimble, secure sandbox
- Power BI insights were harder to produce and publish quickly
- The lean underwriting team risked being slowed down by infrastructure constraints
- AWS data estate centralized infrastructure, files, data, and analytics workflows
- Alteryx Server and Worker accelerated complex model execution
- Power BI dashboards gave the team live business insight
- Azure AD and SharePoint integrations supported secure operations
- Underwriters can deliver same-day quotes in a compliance-ready environment
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