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November 2006

WHITEHILL SOFTWARE HELPS CREATE POLICIES

Whitehill Technologies, Moncton, New Brunswick, has shipped a new release of the InSystems product line, which helps create insurance policies. IStream Publisher 3.2 simplifies production of insurance documents by managing the process from the first draft of the contract language through the issuing of the policy. The software also supports service-oriented architecture (SOA), which increases IT agility, and includes predefined services for retrieval, assembly, rendering, delivery and storage.

AMS SERVICES UPDATES SOFTWARE

Bothell, Wash.-based AMS Services has released AMS Sagitta 7.0, an agency management system for larger agencies, bank-owned agencies and nation brokers. The new version offers better security, more flexibility and opportunities for customization-features designed to help agencies comply with regulations and protect customers' data. The system features role-based security, tighter control of system access, detailed login tracking, broader password options and limited menu access.

BETTER VISIBILITY FOR McCAMISH APP

PMACS from McCamish Systems, Atlanta, manages producers in multiple relationships with separate contracts. The software also handles complex compensation and dynamic processing rules. The system rewrite builds upon the original, while offering greater ease of access and adaptability. Earlier versions provided a holistic view of each producer across distribution channels, product lines or compensation structures, the company says, but the upgrade allows for better visibility into those functions.

GRID COMPUTING FOR LIFE

A new grid computing offering to help life insurance clients decrease the time needed to run complex insurance model scenarios is now available from IBM Corp., which is headquartered in Armonk, N.Y. The IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis is a packaged set of hardware, software and services that combine IBM and IBM business partner and ISV technologies to help insurance companies improve faster time to market and financial risk and capital management. At the heart of the offering is IBM's BladeCenter systems to power the grid, which helps actuaries run more calculations and tune their models to improve accuracy, thereby receiving results faster.

OUTSOURCE COMPLIANCE MONITORING

InSight Security Manager is an audit, monitoring and reporting solution that automatically enables organizations to continuously and non-intrusively assure that their outsourcers and other trusted users are managing systems and data in accordance with company and regulatory policy. Developed by Consul, which has dual headquarters in Washington and the Netherlands, InSight is designed to support improved transparency and service-level agreement metrics. InSight's correlation and reporting engine also tracks individual user behavior against defined change management procedures and acceptable use security policies.

SOA WEB SEMINARS

XAware Inc., a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based enterprise software company specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, released a CD with video extracted from its webinar series of four separate webinars. The CD, titled "Making Connections: Harnessing the Business Potential of Service-Oriented Architectures," features John Hagel III, author of "Out of the Box-Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services." Hagel illustrates how and why SOA can work. XAware's first presentation, "ACORD Business Services for SOA," illustrated XAware's approach to ACORD standards and compliance. The three remaining presentations feature Hagel and are entitled "Service Oriented Architecture Introduction," "Service Oriented Architecture-Business Cases and Challenges," and "Successful Approaches for Service Oriented Architectures."

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