ACORD.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) announced the latest enhancements to ACORD forms built on top of IBM's open standards-based technology. The new ACORD eForms+ will help drive greater efficiency and productivity for carders, solution providers, brokers and agents. Under a new agreement, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and ACORD are enhancing the library of ACORD forms to generate 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. data, based on IBM Workplace IBM Workplace was a brand of collaborative software applications from IBM's Lotus Software division. It was intended to be the next generation of collaboration software that would work with IBM's Java EE-based WebSphere Portal server software. Forms. Also, the forms have new capabilities that will improve efficiency across the value chain from agents and brokers to insurers and reinsurers. For carriers that implement the IBM software, the forms enable agents to submit forms electronically. |
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