You’ve made the right move. Duck Creek gave your organization a more modern, modular core. A platform that can adapt, scale, and connect with the rest of your ecosystem.
But if you're still finding it hard to move quickly—to get rating logic updates out the door, to act on pricing ideas in real time—you're not imagining it.
This is what many insurers experience after core modernization. The system is ready. The architecture is sound. But teams still feel like they’re stuck in yesterday’s workflows.
We call this the second wave: the phase where the constraints aren’t technical anymore—they’re operational.
Coherent Spark is designed to work with your Duck Creek platform—by making its extensibility directly usable by your business teams.
It turns rating logic built in Excel into production-ready APIs that integrate with Duck Creek workflows.
This isn’t a rip-and-replace approach.
Spark is a utility layer—a bridge between systems architecture and business execution. It helps you get more value from what you already built.
Like BASF, we don’t make the PAS. We make it better.
See how it works: Watch a short demo of how Coherent Spark turns an Excel-based rater into a live API—ready to plug into Duck Creek or any core system in minutes.
Duck Creek gives you the infrastructure to move faster. That’s why it’s a top choice for insurers—reliable, extensible, and built for change.
But even with a modern system in place, teams often face familiar challenges:
The tools are ready. But the workflow hasn't caught up. And that keeps your smartest people from acting on opportunities when they see them.
It’s not a system issue. It’s a scaling issue. And solving it doesn’t require a new platform—just a better connection between the one you have and the people who use it.
Coherent Spark brings Duck Creek’s extensibility into reach for the people who need it most.
Business teams can continue building logic in Excel—the tool they already know. Spark then transforms that logic into documented, version-controlled APIs that connect directly to Duck Creek. No rewriting. No delays.
The integration is predefined and available via the Duck Creek Content Exchange, making it fast to adopt and easy to manage. There’s no need to custom-build connectors or retrain teams.
The workflow is simple:
The result is faster, safer, and more scalable execution.
Updates that once took weeks now take days. Teams iterate with confidence, knowing every version is traceable and production-ready.
With Duck Creek + Coherent Spark, you can:
It's not about moving fast for its own sake. It’s about making sure your systems support the pace of your business.
Most insurers are familiar with the reality of IT backlog. Even with a modern core, execution often flows through a narrow lane: a few experts fielding requests from every team.
The result? Strategic priorities move forward, while mid-tier ideas wait.
Coherent Spark changes that—not just by making things faster, but by widening the lane entirely. Now, multiple projects can move in parallel, not just one at a time. Capacity expands, and execution starts to match the scale of your ambitions.
That opens the door to more frequent experimentation. Teams can test pricing adjustments in real time, launch and refine rating logic based on market feedback, and iterate confidently—without starting from scratch or waiting weeks between versions.
It also makes previously sidelined work viable again. Localized product variations, niche offerings, and smaller-scale enhancements that once felt too costly or complex now become efficient to deliver. The time and resource savings make them worth doing.
When execution is no longer the bottleneck, creativity becomes a more practical strategy.
That’s what real acceleration looks like: not just doing more, but doing more of the right things—at the right time.
Here’s how this shift plays out for the people closest to your products.
Before Spark:
An actuary refines a new rating factor in Excel. They pass it to IT. A developer rewrites the logic into system config. Something gets lost in translation. The test cycle takes weeks. Everyone waits.
With Spark:
The same actuary builds logic in Excel. Spark converts it into an API with full version control and documentation. It plugs directly into Duck Creek. Testing and deployment happen in days. Updates are auditable, traceable, and under business control.
Teams aren’t just more efficient. They’re more autonomous. And the system finally matches the pace—and the intent—of the people who drive it.
This model also delivers real value in complex use cases. For insurers writing policies like Commercial Auto or Cyber—where rating logic can be intricate and frequently changing—Spark enables faster updates, better governance, and more resilient performance.
Duck Creek is the right foundation for modern insurance operations. Spark doesn’t change that—it extends it.
By giving business users a direct path into your system’s flexibility, Spark helps you get more from the investment you’ve already made.
That’s the final unlock: the shift from a modernized core to a truly agile business.
If this sounds familiar—if your teams are ready, but your process still lags—Spark may be the missing layer.
Explore how Coherent Spark helps insurers go beyond modernization—into real-time business execution, with business users fully in control.