Business Needs: Willis Re, which is part of the Willis Group, is one of the world’s leading reinsurance advisors. It helps organisations understand the risks they face and advises them on the best way to manage extreme events. Willis Re supports and funds the WRN—a collaboration between universities and the insurance industry—to evaluate the frequency, severity, and impact of natural catastrophes, and help governments and businesses manage risks more effectively. At the heart of Willis catastrophe modelling activities is an integrated, global catastrophe modelling platform called eQUIP…
Solution: Willis turned to Microsoft, which had been its strategic partner for a number of years. Davis says: “We chose Microsoft because it really understood our business and our aims. In addition, Microsoft had the capabilities to deliver an end-to-end solution.” Davis was impressed with the response of the Microsoft U.K. team. “It dedicated a lot of time to understanding our business and what we wanted to achieve,” he says. After a series of technical discussions, Willis decided to migrate the eQUIP platform to a HPC architecture based on Windows HPC Server 2008, with software written in Microsoft.NET…
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