WOODRUFF SAWYER
WATCH NOW in how we ’ re implementing it all ,” he explains .
The IT department at Woodruff Sawyer has been lean from the beginning by design , with 45 employees including outsource contractors . Matt ’ s view was that in order to hire the best leaders that he could , all of them should come from an insurance background . In fact , not a single person in a management role that works for him doesn ’ t .
“ We wanted to have people that can talk with the business and understand what the business wants and be able to understand requirements without having to go through endless loops of requirements gathering ,” Kulangara says .
Woodruff Sawyer is a multicloud which uses AWS and Azure .
“ In AWS , we have an application that Quadrant built for us , which is a directory app , but everything else resides in Azure ,” he continues . “ Our view on technology is that we will build where it makes sense from an IP perspective and where it ’ s actually going to drive business value .”
Woodruff Sawyer uses Salesforce as a CRM , as well as Applied Epic , a standard product that close to 60 % of brokerages use for insurance processing . In the Microsoft Stack , the company uses OneDrive for document storage .
When Woodruff Sawyer built Connect , the idea was that everything in the company should be driven through it . But this was such a large project , it was difficult to get the executive team on board as it was simply something that the company had never done .
So , what Matt and his team did was split Connect into smaller parts .
114 May 2024