New Features in Dynamic Actuarial Modeling Q1 2026

NEW FEATURES in Dynamic Actuarial Modeling

Check out these new features and what they mean for you.

Enhancements to the Product Configuration Interface

Product Configurator is a centralized workspace where insurers can store, manage, and update all their insurance products in one place. It allows users to create new products or modify existing ones through a simple interface — without writing any code. The tool helps ensure consistency, transparency, and easier collaboration across teams. The Product Configuration interface continues to evolve in Q1 2026, with enhancements focused on improving flexibility, scalability, and clarity when defining and promoting insurance products.

Multiple Pure Premium Components per Product

When configuring and promoting a new product, users can now associate multiple pure premium components within a single product definition. This allows greater flexibility in product modeling by supporting:

Multiple Ratebooks
Multiple Rule Flows
A combination of Ratebooks and Rule Flows contributing to pure premium calculation

This enhancement supports more complex pricing architectures and better reflects real-world product structures, especially for P&C and Life products with layered or modular premium logic.

Improved Metadata and Configuration Traceability

To support the extended product configuration model, additional metadata is now captured at configuration time. These improvements strengthen traceability and auditability across the product lifecycle and simplify downstream analysis, testing, and promotion activities.

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Product Test Bench: Expanded Coverage and Usability

The Product Test Bench has been extended in Q1 2026 to better support end‑to‑end testing across multiple insurance lines and pricing scenarios.

Expanded P&C Pricing Test Coverage

The Product Test Bench now supports combined car and home insurance pricing test cases under a unified P&C pricing framework. This simplifies validation of multi-line pricing logic and enables more realistic end-to-end testing for common customer scenarios.

Broader Use Case Support

In addition to existing pricing scenarios, the Product Test Bench continues to support testing for:

Home insurance pricing
Annuity pricing
Cash value projection

This expanded coverage allows teams to validate analytical logic, pricing behavior, and integration readiness earlier and more consistently in the development lifecycle.

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Azure Container Apps Manager User Interface

Q1 2026 introduces the SAS Azure Container Apps Manager user interface, providing a streamlined way to manage Azure-based decisioning applications created from SAS Dynamic Actuarial Modeling assets.

Centralized Management of Azure Container Apps

The Azure Container Apps Manager UI enables users to:

Create, update, and delete Azure container applications

Manage applications generated from published decision flows

Monitor and maintain containerized decision services from a single interface

This significantly reduces operational complexity and improves visibility when deploying and managing real-time pricing and decisioning workloads in Microsoft Azure.

Improved Dev-to-Prod Deployment Experience

By providing a dedicated UI for Azure container app lifecycle management, this feature supports a smoother transition from development to production, especially for customers using SAS Container Runtime and Azure-native deployment patterns.

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Summary

The Q1 2026 release focuses on:

Greater flexibility in product configuration
Stronger and more realistic product testing capabilities
Simplified management of Azure-based decisioning deployments

Together, these enhancements improve scalability, governance, and operational efficiency across the full insurance product lifecycle.