Object Management selections enable authorized users (system administrator or business unit Administrator) to manage a variety of items, such as users and templates.
You can access the top-level or context-sensitive Touchstone online help from within the application or from the Client Portal. You can then search for content, bookmark pages, and generate output to other formats.
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects are a useful way to organize your data. They contain exposure views that contain the data that you want to focus on.
Geospatial analysis enables you to perform a deterministic risk analysis with your own view of risk on accumulations of property exposures and workers' compensation information in given areas exposed to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
The Activity Monitor displays the status of all activities.
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
User administration involves the management of users, roles, groups, and business units in Touchstone Re.
Business unit and system administrators can set and modify viewing and analysis defaults.
Your Touchstone Re installation includes event set files for each peril and region licensed by your company.
This function provides tools for administrators to set defaults for use during detailed loss analyses.
Tools to manage Touchstone and Touchstone Re licensing.
HPC Resource Management provides tools in Touchstone and Touchstone Re to configure HPC (High Performance Computing) resources.
Touchstone and Touchstone Re server administrators can perform a suite of tasks.
Templates enable you to save analysis options so that you do not have to reselect a complex configuration each time you configure and run an analysis.
Define administrative boundaries for use in Touchstone.
A CSV Grid format is our defined proprietary raster data format for representing spatial data as a matrix of cells, or pixels, organized into rows and columns, where each cell contains an attribute value from the CSV file.
Touchstone and Touchstone Re support various shapefiles. The shapefiles spatially describe geometries such as points, lines, and polygons, which represent geographical features such as the epicenter of an earthquake, hurricane storm tracks, wind speed footprints, and state boundaries.
Use Map Layer Import to import map layers (custom GIS data) from raster or vector files into Touchstone.
We have certified the following projections (PRJ). Other projections may also work.
Before importing raster files, consider the guidelines and restrictions specified in this topic.
Before importing vector files, consider the guidelines and restrictions specified in this topic. Each vector feature has attribute data that describes it. For supported geometry types for each vector format, see the Help topic for the format.
Touchstone supports the import of GeoJSON vector files (.json and .geojson) as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run geospatial analyses with the map layers. (You must have a license for Geospatial Analysis.)
Touchstone supports the import of GML vector files (.gml) as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. (You must have a license for Geospatial Analysis.)
Touchstone supports the import of SQLite vector files (.sqlite) as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. (Geospatial Analysis requires a license.)
Touchstone supports the import of ArcInfo ASCII raster files (.asc) as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. You must have a Geospatial Analysis license.
Touchstone supports the import of GeoTiff raster files as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. (You must have a license for Geospatial Analysis.)
Touchstone supports the import of ERDAS IMG raster files as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. (You must have a license for Geospatial Analysis.)
Touchstone supports the import of ENVI raster files as map layers. You can then visualize your exposure data with the imported map layers and run Geospatial Analyses with the map layers. (You must have a license for Geospatial Analysis.)
When importing a map layer, select a data type to help determine kinds of analyses to run on imported data and to help you organize data into business use cases.
Create, edit, and delete user-supplied geocode match level mapping sets.
Touchstone's Zone Set Manager enables you to define and manage zone sets.
For information about map layer management, refer to the following topics.
