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Data Analytics and Power BI for Insurance Insights

Data Analytics and Power BI for Insurance Insights

A practical business focused course for insurance professionals who want to turn operational and portfolio data into useful analysis and decision ready dashboards with Power BI. The agenda combines core analytics thinking with Power BI skills that are directly relevant to claims, lapse, retention, loss ratios, fraud indicators, and customer reporting. The course emphasizes clear metrics, trustworthy data, and visuals that support action rather than just reporting.

What will you learn?

You will learn how to structure insurance data for analysis and how to turn it into useful Power BI models, measures, and dashboards. You will work with practical business views across claims, retention, lapse behavior, profitability, fraud indicators, and customer monitoring. You will also learn how to present results in a way that supports management decisions, operational follow up, and ongoing performance tracking.

  • Build Power BI reports and dashboards tailored to core insurance use cases
  • Model and analyze claims, lapse, retention, loss ratios, fraud indicators, and customer metrics
  • Create reliable measures, filters, and visuals that support operational and management decisions
  • Apply practical data preparation, governance, and storytelling patterns for insurance reporting

Requirements:

  • Suitable for professionals in insurance operations, claims, underwriting support, customer teams, and management functions
  • Basic familiarity with Excel or similar data tools is helpful
  • No prior Power BI experience is required, but exposure to reporting or KPI tracking is useful

Course Outline*:

*We customize the course outline and content to your specific needs and relevant use cases.

Module 1: Data analytics in the insurance business

  • Role of analytics in insurance decision making and operational steering
  • Common data sources policy, claims, customer, distribution, and finance
  • Turning business questions into metrics, dimensions, and dashboard logic
  • Practical analytics use cases for claims, lapse, retention, and service monitoring

Module 2: Power BI foundations and data preparation

  • Power BI workspace, report structure, and data flow overview
  • Importing data from spreadsheets, files, and business systems
  • Cleaning and transforming data with Power Query
  • Structuring tables so downstream analysis stays consistent and readable

Module 3: Data modeling for insurance reporting

  • Fact and dimension thinking for insurance datasets
  • Building relationships between claims, customer, policy, and product data
  • Handling dates, hierarchies, and segment fields for useful filtering
  • Avoiding common modeling mistakes that distort business results

Module 4: Core insurance measures and KPIs

  • Building measures for claim counts, claim severity, and settlement trends
  • Defining lapse, retention, and renewal related indicators clearly
  • Calculating loss ratios and related profitability views
  • Creating measure logic that is understandable for business users and management

Module 5: Claims analytics with Power BI

  • Claims intake, processing, reserve, closure, and payment analysis
  • Segmenting claims by line, cause, region, channel, and handler
  • Tracking development patterns, aging, and operational bottlenecks
  • Presenting claim trends and case mix in a business friendly way

Module 6: Lapse and retention analysis

  • Identifying churn and retention patterns across products and customer groups
  • Comparing customer cohorts, renewal periods, and policy durations
  • Visualizing drop off points and renewal performance
  • Supporting action planning for retention improvement

Module 7: Loss ratios and portfolio performance

  • Structuring dashboards for premium, claims cost, and ratio analysis
  • Comparing performance across products, regions, intermediaries, and time periods
  • Distinguishing trend, volatility, and outlier behavior
  • Building views that support management conversations on portfolio quality

Module 8: Fraud indicators and early warning views

  • Designing dashboards around suspicious patterns and anomaly signals
  • Highlighting repeat behavior, unusual timing, payment patterns, or claim clusters
  • Combining business rules and indicator logic in a visual reporting context
  • Presenting fraud related views carefully to support investigation rather than overclaiming

Module 9: Customer and service dashboards

  • Building customer dashboards around service requests, complaints, and contact patterns
  • Linking customer metrics to retention and claims related outcomes
  • Segmenting dashboards by channel, product, and customer profile
  • Supporting service improvement with clear customer focused visuals

Module 10: Interactive reporting and dashboard design

  • Using slicers, drill through, bookmarks, and navigation for business usability
  • Designing dashboards for executives, team leads, and operational users
  • Avoiding clutter and choosing visuals that match the business question
  • Balancing detail and clarity in insurance reporting environments

Module 11: Insight communication and decision support

  • Turning dashboard outputs into business narratives and action points
  • Explaining trends, exceptions, and uncertainties in plain language
  • Comparing static reports with interactive decision support views
  • Creating dashboard structures that support meetings, reviews, and follow up actions

Module 12: Governance, refresh, and long term reporting practice

  • Data quality checks and refresh discipline for trusted reporting
  • Managing KPI definitions, ownership, and version consistency
  • Sharing dashboards responsibly across teams and management levels
  • Building a practical roadmap for stronger insurance analytics and reporting maturity

Hands-on learning with expert instructors at your location for organizations.

4.347€*
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Level:
intermediate
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Duration:
21
Hours (days:
3
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Training customized to your needs
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Immersive hands-on experience in a dedicated setting
*Price can range depending on number of participants, change of outline, location etc.

Master new skills guided by experienced instructors from anywhere.

3.012€*
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Level:
intermediate
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Duration:
21
Hours (days:
3
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Training customized to your needs
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Reduced training costs
*Price can range depending on number of participants, change of outline, location etc.

Upcoming Sessions

21-23 Jul 2026
Barcelona
13-15 Aug 2026
Brussels
24-26 Sep 2026
Lisbon
14-16 Oct 2026
Milan
29-31 Oct 2026
Barcelona
10-12 Nov 2026
Brussels
1-3 Dec 2026
Warsaw

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