ACORD Chooses Blue Frog Solutions' ADMServer System to Maintain Popular XML Standard for Life Insurance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers POMPANO BEACH Pompano Beach (pŏm`pənō), city (1990 pop. 72,411), Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast and the Intracoastal Waterway; inc. 1908. It is a resort city with ocean beaches, excellent fishing, and a harness-racing track. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2003 Blue Frog's new ADMServer System Standards Maintenance Module is Designed to Maintain ACORD's XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Life Standard and Improve the Standards Process for Members The Association for Cooperative Operations Research operations research Application of scientific methods to management and administration of military, government, commercial, and industrial systems. It began during World War II in Britain when teams of scientists worked with the Royal Air Force to improve radar detection of and Development (ACORD ACORD Association for Cooperative Operations, Research and Development ACORD Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development ACORD Association de Coopération et de Recherche pour le Développement (French) ) is working with Blue Frog Solutions, an innovative insurance technology solutions provider, to apply its ADMServer Framework technology to help maintain its popular XML standards for Life Insurance and TXLife standard. The ADMServer Standards Maintenance Module (SMM (System Management Mode) An energy conservation mode built into Intel SL Enhanced 486 and Pentium CPUs. During inactive periods, SMM initiates a sleep mode that turns off peripherals or the entire system. ) improves the accuracy and speed of the standards process for ACORD's growing membership. "As the breadth, depth and overall sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the ACORD Life Standards continues to grow, with hundreds of users now across the globe, ACORD needed to find a toolset which would better manage the process of documenting and producing our Standards documentation deliverables. Now with ADMServer we are able to rapidly generate more consistent and detailed documentation including the public schemas and object lists along with the much more detailed member specification documentation, alternate formats and help files. We are finding real savings in time to produce, reduction in manual errors and a remarkable improvement in consistency and quality of our Standards deliverables," said Rick Heil, ACORD Standards Manager. SMM is the latest extension of the ADMServer Framework, a broad-based system designed specifically to handle the needs of life and annuity clients. The tool significantly reduces errors and required time investment in management and publication of ACORD's life standards. "We are thrilled that ACORD is using Blue Frog technology to help maintain one of its standards," said Blue Frog CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Brad Levine. "ACORD's trust in our ability to identify and develop solutions for the unique business challenges in the insurance industry validates our hard work toward streamlining the processing and distribution of insurance." SMM is offered as an online application with user access via a browser that affords rich functionality, including user management tools, spec editor, schema generator, document generator and an issues importer. About Blue Frog Solutions Blue Frog Solutions is a leading provider of ACORD middleware software solutions for data transfer, messaging, and transaction processing between life insurance carriers/underwriters and distributors/agents. The ADMServer Suite supports the entire XMLife model. Blue Frog is headquartered in Pompano Beach, Florida Pompano Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The Nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of 2006, the U.S. and was selected as a 2002 "Tech Company of the Year" by the South Florida Business Journal. For additional information about Blue Frog Solutions, visit its Web site at http://www.bluefrogsolutions.com. |
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