Omni-Insurance Integration Overview

Using Omni-Insurance, you can create and maintain cleansed and mastered data for a business domain. A data model, reflecting the business requirements of a customer, is deployed into Omni-Insurance. This data model is made up of subjects, each of which is represented as a hierarchical structure consisting of a root instance logically linked to any number of descendants (for example, children, grandchildren, and so on).

The data model is packaged as a .zip file and formatted as an Omni-Gen bundle. For Omni-Gen products targeted for specific industry verticals, such as Omni-Insurance, the data model is prepackaged as a bundle with the product. Otherwise, the data model is designed, and the bundle is generated, on site. Deploying an Omni-Gen bundle associates the Omni-Insurance system with a particular data model and initializes the Omni-Insurance database.

Each subject in the Omni data model is described by an Interface Document Specification (IDS) which reflects its hierarchical structure as a hierarchy of documents: the top-level subject document and child collection documents. For each document, parent or child, there is a corresponding set of tables in the Omni database named og_nameOfSubjectOrCollection categorized as follows:

Identified by the _r suffix, the ramp table is the primary entry point for data coming into Omni-Insurance.

Identified by the _s suffix, the source table holds the pre-cleansed version of a record in the source system. The source table is not used for subjects that are not cleansed or mastered, also known as transactional subjects.

The instance table holds the latest, cleansed (if applicable) version of a record in the source system. The instance table is not marked with a suffix. The master table, identified by the _m suffix, holds the master record (only applicable if the subject is mastered).

For example, the Facility subject is composed of a Facility parent and an Address child, which are represented by the og_facility_r and og_facility_address_r ramp tables, respectively.

There are two facilities available for loading data into Omni-Insurance:

Typically, the data being loaded into an Omni-Insurance system originates from source systems, which are formatted differently from the target model. As a result, a conversion step is required to bring this data to an Omni-Insurance system.