Webinars

Webinar: Geocoding - When Better Accuracy Means Saving Money

User Story: Willis Re uses PBBI’s international geocoding to respond to worldwide disasters and risk assessment

Learn how to use a single geocoding platform from PBBI to help manage U.S. and international business operations. PBBI’s geocoding solution offers broad international coverage in over 200 countries as well as parcel centroid geocoding within the U.S. – all within a single platform.

This webinar will feature Nigel Davis, executive director at Willis RE, one of the world's largest reinsurance advisors, who will discuss the company’s use of international geocoding and spatial assignment to model and manage risk.

The geocoding solution Willis chose, PBBI’s Spectrum enterprise location intelligence solution, provided business users with the confidence to make strategic decisions based on their data. Users throughout the organization needed answers to questions such as:

• How confident can someone be that the geocode really matches the input address?
• Is there a geocode that is attached to an address that is somehow similar to the input address, but is miles away, maybe even in another country?
• Are the geocodes really accurate enough to use to make business-critical decisions?
• How can a company work with more than one platform for its international geocoding needs?

By providing an accurate overview to an area’s risk status, Willis’s catastrophe models now produce more reliable results, and risk estimations for hazards such as flood, wind, subsidence, earthquake, crime and wildfire can be performed with greater precision.

Davis will be joined by PBBI’s Berk Charlton, director of product management at PBBI, who will discuss the details of PBBI’s global geocoding solution.