ACORD to Reward Companies Using XML.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) , a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. insurance association dedicated to facilitating the development and use of standards for the insurance and related financial-services industries, recently announced its 2001 ACORD 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. Implementation Champions Awards program. The awards will be given out at the ACORD Technology Conference May 20-22 at Disney world in Orlando, Fla. This year's program will recognize companies that are quick to adopt the latest XML specification developments. Companies must submit transactions for the awards and be certified See certification. by ACORD as being compliant by April 15. The certification program will utilize the same general criteria across all lines of business ensuring each group's efforts are appropriately recognized. Certification application and requirement guidelines and a complete list of eligible transactions can be obtained by contacting Geri Prescott at gprescott@acord.org or (845) 620-1700, Ext. 463. |
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