NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allstate Financial, a
business unit of The Allstate Corporation, announces the receipt of the 2002
Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award, presented by The Data Warehousing
Institute (TDWI). The award recognizes Allstate Financial for the deployment
of its data warehouse in the integrated data analysis category.
The Data Warehouse Institute Award recognizes the industry-leading
methodology used to develop the data warehouse, the complexity of the business
problem addressed, the hardware and software tools selected, as well as the
speed of development.
The Allstate Financial data warehouse project was begun in mid 2000 and
represents a significant effort to consolidate data from the existing legacy
administrative systems into a decision support environment. The Allstate
Financial data warehouse has used the data, computing system and software
tools to support a number of projects including retention and compliance
programs as well as a number of marketing and sales initiatives.
"We continue to actively seek opportunities to externally benchmark our
warehouse with other best-in-class warehouses," said John Hershberger,
assistant vice president, Allstate Financial database marketing. "The
information we extract from this warehouse coupled with advanced analytic
tools and skilled analysts will allow us to simplify business processes,
reduce expenses and better meet the needs of our customers."
Knightsbridge, the consulting and systems integration firm that nominated
Allstate for the award, was brought in by Hershberger because of its history
of implementing large and complex data warehouses.
The Data Warehouse Institute has fourteen other categories of data
warehousing awards. Hershberger will present the winning nomination at TDWI's
World Conference in Las Vegas in August where he will compete among other
category winners for the Leadership in Data Warehousing Award.
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) is the nation's largest publicly held
personal lines insurer. Widely known through the "You're In Good Hands With
Allstate(R)" slogan, Allstate provides insurance products to more than 14
million households and has approximately 13,000 exclusive agents in the U.S.
and Canada. Customers can access Allstate products and services through
Allstate agents, or in select states at allstate.com and 1-800-Allstate.
Encompass(SM) and Deerbrook(R) Insurance brand property and casualty products
are sold exclusively through independent agents. Allstate Financial Group
includes the businesses that provide life insurance, retirement and investment
products, through Allstate agents, workplace marketing, independent agents,
banks and securities firms.
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