DGAP-Media / 25.02.2016 / 10:11 msg life awarded contract by UNIQA Asigurari de viata, Romania - Romanian life insurance company contracts Austrian msg life subsidiary - Introduction of msg.Symass and msg.Sales & Service as an integrated complete solution for sales and portfolio management (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 25 February 2016) - The msg life Group has acquired the Romanian life insurance company UNIQA Asigurari de viata (Bucharest, Romania) as a new customer for an integrated end-to-end solution. The portfolio of UNIQA Asigurari de viata is to henceforth be managed using msg.Symass, msg life's all-sector administration system for small insurance companies in eastern Europe. The Web-based multichannel platform msg.Sales & Service will additionally be used at UNIQA Asigurari de viata to bring together the bank and broker sales channels. Furthermore, in view of its growing contract volume, UNIQA Asigurari de viata has arranged to have the option to upgrade to msg.Insurance Suite, the msg Group's main solution for medium-sized and larger insurance companies. The contractor is the msg life Group company msg life Austria Ges.m.b.H., based in Vienna. The life insurance company UNIQA Asigurari de viata is a subsidiary of the Austrian UNIQA Group, one of the leading insurance groups in Austria and also central and eastern Europe. Ahead of this decision, msg life came out on top in a lengthy selection process, beating a number of local and international service providers. The project work is already under way and is scheduled for completion in summer 2016. 'msg.Symass in combination with msg.Sales & Service meets all the requirements of a modern IT solution for an insurance company of our size. One of the main reasons for choosing msg life was the software's user friendliness, which allows our business divisions to make changes and modifications without the need for additional IT development,' says the local Chief Operating Officer of UNIQA, Wolf-Christoph Gerlach. msg.Symass is aimed at insurance companies in eastern Europe with small portfolios and at start-ups. msg.Symass is a lean and inexpensive administration system that covers all the core functions of an insurance company and which can be implemented very quickly and flexibly. It also offers the option of a straightforward and standardised upgrade to msg.Insurance Suite in the event of growth. msg.Symass makes it possible to develop and launch new products within a short time to market and boasts multi-tenancy, multilingual and multi-currency capabilities. msg.Sales & Service is a multichannel/multi-device sales and service platform for the fully digital handling of offers and applications, and can be used by sales staff, brokers and end customers. The system architecture makes all the relevant business processes available at the point of sale using any channel or device. Based on quick and convenient customer research, the solution offers customer-specific information, processes, and acquisition and product data. The system can be implemented quickly and inexpensively on the basis of a standardised customising process. About the UNIQA Group and UNIQA Asigurari de viata The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. UNIQA is represented in 19 countries by approximately 40 companies and has more than 10 million customers. Two Romanian companies belong to the UNIQA Group: UNIQA Asigurari (non-life insurance) and UNIQA Asigurari de viata (life insurance), with a workforce of approximately 900 in total. UNIQA Asigurari de viata is currently ranked eighth among Romanian life insurance companies and has three-digit growth rates in the areas of life and health insurance. The dense sales network of the Raiffeisen Banking Group is a key sales channel also in Romania. About msg life As part of the independent international msg group of companies, msg life ag and its subsidiaries are among the leading software and consultancy firms for the European insurance sector, focusing in particular on life insurance companies and pension scheme providers. Its portfolio of services includes standard software, consulting services and the handling of IT operations (cloud solutions). Based in Leinfelden-Echterdingen and with offices in Munich, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne and subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal and the USA, the msg life Group has an employee headcount of approximately 850. Contact msg life ag Corporate Communications Frank Fahrner Humboldtstrasse 35 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Germany Tel. +49 (0)711 949 580 Email: [email protected] Website: www.msg-life.com End of Media Release --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: msg life ag Key word(s): Information technology 25.02.2016 Dissemination of a Press Release, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: msg life ag Humboldtstraße 35 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Germany Phone: +49 (0)711 94958-0 Fax: +49 (0)711 94958-49 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.msg-life.com ISIN: DE0005130108 WKN: 513010 Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart End of News DGAP Media --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 440083 25.02.2016