How do I get started with SQANet?
What is SQANet? [top]
Simple & Quick Access (SQANet) ''dashboard'' is a secure web-portal concept that enables access to data from the NFIP Bureau flood insurance database and NextGen data warehouse. This business intelligence-reporting tool has a user-friendly web page for viewing a variety of useful reports and performing lookups. Each dashboard is customized based on each individual's role.
Who are the intended users for SQANet? [top]
FEMA employees (Headquarters and Regions), Bureau personnel, NFIP State Coordinators, State Hazard Mitigation Officers (SHMO), Write Your Own (WYO) Company and Vendor flood insurance personnel.
Who will be allowed to use SQANet? [top]
SQANet could be made available to the following NFIP stakeholders – FEMA Headquarters and Regional personnel, NFIP State Coordinators, State Hazard Mitigation Officials, WYO Companies, CRS Contractors, and the Bureau and Statistical Agent.
What can SQANet do for my organization? [top]
For WYO companies: SQANet can help you track your interactions with the Bureau and FEMA, such as status of data transactions, status of claims, and so on. It can help you gain greater understanding of industry-wide trends, enabling you to fine-tune your market strategies. It can also help your underwriters assess risks - they'll know right away whether a property is insurable, accorded PRP status, and what its claims history looks like. The sky is the limit - SQANet will grow to meet business needs across your organization.
For FEMA personnel: SQANet will improve the quality of policy analysis in the program. You’ll have the ability to slice and dice data, with the click of a mouse. The data will be live, and in a variety of formats for you to further analyze it. You’ll be able to monitor claims and policies, across all companies, across all flood zones, and across the U.S. You’ll get graphical representations of data, in the form of pie charts and line graphs. SQANet will also allow better oversight – outliers can be spotted and repetitive loss properties can be examined in depth.
How do I get started with SQANet? [top]
SQANet offers secure access to NFIP reports that you can download to review for analyses. To begin, go to http://www.nfipbureau.fema.gov, and click on the “SQANet” link on the top left-hand side of the screen. This will take you to the login page, then to a “Privacy Statement Notice” page and then to SQANet.
You will be prompted to change your password after the first login, and directions are provided in the manual on choosing a secure but memorable password. Please refer to the SQANet QuickStart to start viewing data.
