Success story · Methaq Takaful Insurance

From paper files and a legacy core to a digital-first insurer.

Methaq Takaful Insurance is an established Abu Dhabi insurer with a heavy daily operation: a strong market position in motor, and a constant flow of sales, claims and payments across the UAE. It moved that operation onto VInsure — while the business kept running at full volume, every day.

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Where it started

A busy insurer, run on paper and a legacy core.

When the project began, the volume was real but the tools weren't. Policies lived in a legacy core system. Sales happened in the office, on paper proposals typed in by hand. Claims were reported at the counter and moved as paper files between desks. Garages worked by email and phone. Finance re-keyed it all at month end.

At Methaq's scale — a daily stream of transactions across motor and medical — every one of those habits was a cost paid many times a day.

POLICIESa legacy core system
SALESpaper proposals, typed in office
CLAIMSreported at the counter, paper files
GARAGESemail and phone tag
CUSTOMERSa branch visit for everything
MONTH ENDfinance re-keying everything
What changed

The same business, digital first.

BEFOREON VINSURE
SALES Paper proposals filled at the counter and typed into the core by hand. Documents read by V OCR, national data checks during the quote, pay by link — on the app, the website, or at the counter.
CLAIMS Reported in person; a paper file moving between desks. Reported from the app, routed at survey, tracked by the customer like a delivery.
GARAGES Email, phone tag and re-typed quotations. Their own portal inside the insurer's system: quotes, LPOs, jobs and invoices.
CUSTOMER SERVICE A branch visit for renewals, changes and documents. Renew from a plate number, request changes and download documents — in English or Arabic.
BROKERS A separate channel, reconciled by hand. Submitting in their own portal, commissions visible and booked automatically.
FINANCE Re-keying everything into the books at month end. Motor entries posted as business happens, beside the established books.
How it was done

The operation never stopped. That was the whole design.

A high-volume insurer can't pause for a migration. So VInsure went live beside the legacy core, module by module, with every stakeholder in the loop — and daily business carried on at full volume throughout.

01

Parallel, not big bang.

VInsure ran beside the legacy core, with read-only access to legacy data. Finance could compare the two books side by side before anything switched over.

02

Module by module, signed off.

Each area went live only after Methaq's own teams had tested it against real cases and signed it off — then the next module followed, on the same platform.

03

Every stakeholder on board.

Underwriters, claims handlers, finance, garages, surveyors and brokers were each trained in their own view of the system, so go-live day was a normal working day.

04

Integrations wired in.

Traffic authorities, the national ID service, health authorities and UAE payment gateways were connected as part of the rollout — not left as a phase two.

What runs on VInsure today

Not a pilot. The daily business.

SELLMotor and medical sales

Quotes, document reading, national data checks, pay by link, policy issue and traffic registration.

CLAIMSClaims, end to end

First notice to payout, with garages, surveyors and adjusters working in their own portals, and salvage after it.

MONEYThe motor ledger

Accounting entries posted as motor business happens, running alongside the insurer's established books.

REACHApp, website and brokers

A Methaq-branded app in both stores, the bilingual public website, and brokers submitting in their own portal.

SERVICECustomers and complaints

Customer records, endorsements, renewals, and the complaint lanes with the Central Bank deadlines built in.

PLATFORMThe engine room

Lead routing, callbacks, notifications, roles and permissions, and a full audit trail under everything.

We never switched everything on at once. Each area moved across one piece at a time, so the daily operation never stopped and every team and partner had time to adjust.

What it means day to day

Paper left the building. The volume didn't.

The same heavy daily operation now moves through one system — and every transaction leaves a trail instead of a paper file.

How switching works →
FOR CUSTOMERS

Real prices on the phone, renewals from a plate number, and a claim tracker that moves like a delivery tracker — in English and Arabic, no branch visit needed.

FOR PARTNERS

Garages, adjusters and brokers stopped working by email and phone, and started working inside the insurer's own system.

FOR THE COMPANY

One system across departments, so sales, claims and finance read from the same numbers, with an audit trail underneath.

Recognition

The transformation won the region's award.

Methaq Takaful was named Digital Insurer of the Year 2026 by Digital Insurance MENA for its digital transformation — the transformation that runs on VInsure.

DIGITAL INSURANCE MENA Digital Insurer of the Year 2026 Awarded to Methaq Takaful for its digital transformation, built and run on VInsure by VIONEX.

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