IT Awards

Financial Insights Innovation Award 2007

Great Eastern has won the award for "Innovation in Operational Process" in the Financial Insights Innovation Award (FIIA) 2007. The award was given for our Electronic Mobile Advisory Solutions (E-MAS), our electronic point-of-sale system.

Great Eastern is one of only 10 financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region to receive this prestigious award. Held in conjunction with the 2007 FinTech Asia Congress, an annual strategic gathering of practitioners from financial institutions across Asia Pacific, the FIIA recognises these companies for effectively using technology to transform, enhance and grow their business. We were chosen from a strong field of over 60 financial institutions, both banks and non banks.

Since its implementation, E-MAS has greatly enhanced the competitiveness and professionalism of our sales force by improving operational efficiency and customer service standards. The system is also key to growing our brand name and strengthening our market leader position, thereby delivering long-term value and growth both locally and regionally.

CIO Honours List 2006

Great Eastern has earned a place in the elite CIO 100 Honours List 2006 with its Lifeisgreat 3G portal. This marks the fourth time that we have been recognised as one of the top 100 companies across Asia, including ASEAN, North Asia, India and Australasia, which have used IT effectively to enhance their organisation's worth and to deliver strategic change.

Our Lifeisgreat 3G portal is a full-fledged mobile Internet portal which provides important services, such as access to policy information for life planners and policyholder. Users can now use their Internet-enabled mobile phones to access Great Eastern's corporate portal and e-Services.

This prestigious award is a further testament of Great Eastern's commitment to bring about a unique customer experience and deliver greater value to our stakeholders with the use of proven cutting-edge technologies to enhance and support our business

ZDNet Asia Smart50 2006 Awards

Great Eastern is one of the top 50 companies out of more than 150 companies across Asia (Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam) to win the ZDNet Asia Smart50 2006 Award. This award, given in May 2006, recognises these companies for implementing IT to drive business efficiency, innovation, and create greater customer value.

ZDNet Asia also handed out special awards in seven special categories, including the Financial Services category. Only one technology project is awarded under each special category. Great Eastern's Electronic Mobile Advisory Solutions (E-MAS), our electronic point-of-sale system, garnered the Financial Services Technology Project of the Year Award. E-MAS is a key strategic project that aims to create a complete customer experience. It creates operational efficiencies and increases the competitiveness of our sales force.

A team of distinguished judges from the region, comprising senior consultants and practitioners from internationally-renowned organisations, was assembled to judge the awards.

Great Eastern will continue to bring about unique customer experience and deliver greater value to our stakeholders by leveraging on IT to enhance and support our business.

Intelligent Enterprise Asia Award

Great Eastern has won the Intelligent Enterprise Asia (IEA) Award for the fourth year running from 2001! We are a winner in the last of the IEA Award series in 2004. The IEA Award 2004/2005 assesses the region's 20 best IT projects across 10 performance indicators covering aspects on management support and involvement, clearly drawn business objectives, and the right tech solutions and execution plans. We won this year's award for our Distribution Channel Management System (DCMS) project, which was commissioned in Jan 2004.

DCMS provides a flexible and adaptable open architecture that allows us to undertake multi-currency and multi-channel operations in different markets, giving us a competitive edge as we prepare for expansion and growth in the region. The award attracted close to 50 entries from the Asia Pacific region and judging was conducted by a panel of four from international consulting firms, KPMG, Frost & Sullivan, Meta Group and Atos Origin.

This award was previously known as the Intelligent20 Award. Great Eastern won this award in the past three years for its lifeisgreat portal, which boasts facilities that allow policyholders to get in touch with life planners via SMS and for life planners to perform critical sales functions via a suite of wireless services through their mobile phones.