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Using Touchstone online Help
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.
About the Touchstone application home page
Touchstone's home page enables you to manage projects, view company information, and access support.

Using Touchstone online Help
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.
- What is Touchstone?
  Touchstone delivers industry-leading technologies for enhanced analytics, new tools for data mining, and a high- performance computing framework to drive productivity and performance.
- What's new in Touchstone 2025
  This release of Touchstone includes new and enhanced features and models.
- What's new in Touchstone 2024
  Summary of new features and updates in Touchstone 2024.
- What's new in Touchstone 2023 (11.5)
  Summary of new features and updates in Touchstone 2023 (11.5).
- What's new in Touchstone 2023 (11.0)
  Summary of new features and updates in Touchstone 2023 (11.0).
- What's new in Touchstone 2022 (10.0)
  Summary of new features and updates in Touchstone 2022.
- Data management concepts
  Touchstone introduced some new data management concepts.
- About the Touchstone workflow
  The core Touchstone workflow includes several major tasks: import exposure data, run analyses, and export results.
- About the Touchstone global menu bar
  Use Touchstone's global menu bar to access application functions.
- About the Touchstone application home page
  Touchstone's home page enables you to manage projects, view company information, and access support.
- About Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (EES) user documentation
  Software, model, API, database, and financial module documentation for Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (EES) are available on the Client Portal
Import data from external sources
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects and exposure views
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
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.
Exposure data validation
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
Data Quality analysis
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
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
About loss analyses
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone data export types
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
Activity Monitor
The Activity Monitor displays the status of all activities.
Managing data sources
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
User model management
Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
Model Builder
Administration Console
User interface
Reference: Common Help topics

About the Touchstone application home page

Touchstone's home page enables you to manage projects, view company information, and access support.

To return to the Home page at any time from other pages, such as from a project's page, click the Home tab.

The Home page includes several panes: Projects, Latest News, and Verisk Support. In each pane you can click to maximize the pane and then click to restore the pane to its previous size and location.

Use the Display Currency field to select the default currency and rate used to display the currency and currency rate of analysis results. See the Guide to Currency Topics for more information about how Touchstone displays currency in different parts of the user interface.

Projects

The links in this pane enable you to display your projects, all projects that you and other users in your business unit are working on, and hidden projects. For each project the pane displays project attributes, including the name, status, currency, exchange rate name, creation date, modification date, author, and description.

Use the tools in the upper right corner of the Projects pane to create new projects, delete projects, refresh the list of projects, import projects, export projects, and hide projects. To open a project, click the hyperlinked project name.

You can sort each column in the Projects grid by clicking the column header, and you can create filters for each column in the grid.

Latest News

This pane provides access to the ALERT™ Worldwide website, which provides recent catastrophe information and speedy access to posted event sets.

Verisk Support

This pane provides a link to the Client Portal where, after logging in, you can browse model and software documentation. It also provides an email link for email support and displays company contact information.

The Help function on the global menu bar also provides links to the Client Portal and to email support.