1987 Started trading April 1st
1987 Irish Dunlop Company – MDC Awarded Mileage Recording System development project
1987 Insurance Corporation of Ireland – MDC manage Branch Computerisation Project
1988 Insurance Corporation of Ireland – MDC win contract for London Non-Marine project to install the leading reinsurance package ‘IMACS’ and manage the overall project including third party and MDC developers
1989 Combined Insurance Company of Ireland – Data and systems conversion project
1989 Consolidated Insurance Company – Conversion of systems and data from IBM System/34 to IBM System/36
1990 Insurance Corporation of Ireland – Enhancements to Marine and Non-Marine systems and continued management of the London IT operations
1990 Century Finance Migration of systems to new hardware.
1991 National Treasury Management – Development of an Irish Treasury Bond system
1992 Alexander Howden Group Management – major conversion of a mainframe reinsurance system to the IMACS IBM AS/400 based system and additional development of new MIS modules
1992 Friends First – Development project
1993 Icarom plc – Transfer of the runoff business of ICI (London) to the new Irish entity. Setting up and managing the IT operations including relocation of hardware and systems
1994 AGF Irish Life – Bespoke system development contract
1994 Idea of web quotations for insurance conceived during a demonstration in New York, to The Dow Corning Corp., of a reinsurance solution. This was the start of what was to become www.insure.ie
1995 Dow Corning Corporation – Reinsurance recording and reporting system for the management of world-wide claims as a result of the class actions on breast implant claims
1996 MDC InsureIT product – First build of a web based quotation system commences
1997 InsureIT demonstrations showing comparative private motor quotes are met with resistance from the insurers.
1998 InsureIT Version 2 developed using LANSA and incorporating new features and ease of deployment enhancements
1999 www.insure.ie launched as a concept site at a motor show in the RDS. Still insurers resist as the belief is that insurance products cannot be sold on the web
2000 www.firstcalldirect.ie launched as Ireland’s first insurance quote and buy website
2000 Finally www.insure.ie launches as Ireland’s first comparative quotation web site. MDC give an equity split to a broker to ensure the insurance companies are on board with guaranteed rates
2001 www.firstcalldirect.co.uk launched
2001 MDC’s web site hosting facilities expanded to handle the increased online traffic and sales
2001 InsureIT live with LANSA Integrator to offer Java XML Services to insurance companies and brokers
2004 FBD Insurance Ireland’s largest Irish-owned Insurance Company, have selected InsureIT from MDC to provide motor insurance via the Web.
2006 First Customer in Australia for MDC’s InsureIT eCommerce Framework
2006 MindTree has partnered with LANSA to offer InsureIT
2007 Glennon Insurance Brokers select InsureIT to replace their existing quotation and policy administration systems.
2008 Car insurance costs to fall as Ryanair enters market. FBD and Ryanair join forces to create Nononsense.ie built using MDC’s InsureIT application
2008 Glennon Insurance Brokers go live with Private Motor, Household and Commercial Vehicle products. The InsureIT solution is used for Call Centre processing and full Document Production and Management.
2009 TopQuote Direct launch online Private Motor Quote and Buy using BrokerIT www.topquotedirect.ie
2010 All Allianz B2C websites consolidated and enhanced and now branded as www.allianz.ie and http://www.allianzni.co.uk
2011 Taxi insurance on line for first time in Ireland at www.bjp.ie/taxi-insurance using BrokerIT
2012 Glennon Insurance Brokers go live with online motor and household quotes using the web services module of InsureIT, see www.glennons.ie
2012 Online travel insurance for Brokers and Credit Unions launched by KennCo Underwriters using BrokerIT, for example see http://www.campionins.com/travel-insurance
