### Digital Underwriting: Riding the Insurance Transformation Wave With MongoDB
Digital underwriting is transforming the insurance industry by leveraging data and artificial intelligence to streamline processes, reduce manual work, and improve decision-making. To achieve this, organizations must adopt a modern IT trend of using microservices, API-first, cloud-based, and headless architecture principles, enabling developers to build services that can be used across multiple business workflows and applications. MongoDB plays a pivotal role in disrupting the industry by providing a developer data platform that allows insurers to tame complexity, increase productivity, and support MACH principles. With its flexible document model, containerized application management, real-time automation of workflows, and business agility using DevOps methodologies, MongoDB enables insurers to integrate legacy siloed data into a single view, manage the full lifecycle of applications, automate workflows leveraging events in real-time, and work quickly with complex data, ultimately streamlining their underwriting processes.