Abstract
 GEO Services at Swiss Re: Maintaining a Company-Wide Centralized Geodatabase Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management Author(s): Christina Bayerl The Geodatabase is Swiss Re's groupwide standard repository for geographical data. It is fully integrated into the company's IT infrastructure and covers a vast range of worldwide administrative information, including data on countries, states, counties, ZIP Codes, and communities as well as global natural hazard information. Various demands need to be satisfied to supply corporate applications with up-to-date geographical information from a single centralized database. Accordingly, the daily business of Swiss Re's GEO Services team ranges from client and data migration support to developing solutions for tool-specific data requirements. While data updates and maintenance are the essential basis for ongoing quality improvement, they must not affect the normal course of business. To ensure smooth operation, Swiss Re has therefore implemented a set of clearly defined data update workflows and information and feedback processes. Christina Bayerl Swiss Reinsurance Company CUO Mythenquai 50/60 Zurich , Zurich 8022 CH Phone: 41 43 285 5912 E-mail: Christina_Bayerl@swissre.com |
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