SEB Partners With Quebec Based Gesticonnect to Digitize Benefits for Emerging Businesses in Quebec - Seite 2

States Denis Plante, Associate President of Gesticonnect, “The emerging market comprises 99.7% of all businesses in Quebec, a largely underserved market for leading benefits administration solutions. The JV with SEB brings highly cost-effective leading-edge technology and business solutions, currently available primarily in the enterprise market, to Brokers, MGAs and TPAs in Quebec.   

The FlexPlus ecosystem will provide emerging businesses in Quebec access to fully bilingual digital solutions, allowing them to cost effectively provide more user-friendly access and more flexible benefit plan designs for their employees. FlexPlus will also provide analytics to make more optimal business decisions, enhancing their overall competitiveness. We have worked with SEB for the past year to assess the suitability of the FlexPlus platform for the Quebec emerging market. SEB’s existing client base in Quebec includes a number of Quebec’s largest and best-known entities, corporate and government. We are confident the FlexPlus solutions being made available to our emerging market clients are proven with leading edge bilingual functionality. These solutions are also deployed across Canada with a number of Canada’s largest employers. We are pleased that a huge portion of SEB’s operating infrastructure is bilingual, based in Quebec and serves both Quebec and SEB’s national client base. Our JV with SEB will contribute to the growth of SEB local infrastructure in Quebec.”

A Quebec-based Ecosystem to Modernize the SME Market
The evolution of benefits administration in the emerging market is long overdue. This JV brings together two innovative teams with benefits, technology and delivery expertise to ensure a strong requirements and strategy fit for the Quebec emerging market. Extending access to robust high value-added group benefits solutions with support from a Quebec based, dedicated multi-lingual team, will help harmonize the delivery of benefits to Quebec employees in the emerging market.

About Gesticonnect
Gesticonnect is a provider of innovative technology solutions that enable employers to enhance their benefits offering while simplifying the experience for employees and directors by integrating leading-edge proven technologies. Gesticonnect offers all of its solutions and services through its independent network of group insurance and annuity advisers. The JV with SEB puts Gesticonnect at the forefront of leading technology solutions for benefits processing in the Quebec marketplace.