AMS Adds State Auto to Growing List of TransactNOW Carriers.Business Editors WINDSOR, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 2003 AMS AMS - Andrew Message System Services, Inc. today announced that State Auto Insurance Companies has joined TransactNOW(TM), becoming the 17th carrier to participate. Introduced this past March at the AMS National Users' Group A users' group (also users group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related. Conference, TransactNOW(TM) is AMS's newest interface offering that enables AMS management system customers to process business transactions with carriers via a real-time single-entry workflow, without having to leave their system. Transactions available today are personal and commercial lines billing, claims and policy view inquiry. In just five months since its launch, over 1,800 agencies have begun using the product, and the numbers continue to grow every day. "We're pleased to provide this workflow-enhancing service for our many agency partners with AMS management systems," said Noreen Johnson, Vice President of Information Technologies at State Auto. "Our agent portal, AgentSite, is regularly used by thousands of agency personnel every day, and we believe the addition of TransactNOW(TM) will further increase company and agency productivity." Dave Shea, president and 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. of AMS Services Agency Markets, added, "TransactNOW(TM) has rapidly become a success story for both agents and carriers. We are excited to have State Auto join with us to dramatically improve the customer service being delivered by our agency customers to their insureds. We continue to add new transactions, carriers, and workflow enhancements as quickly as possible." TransactNOW(TM) uses 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) standards and 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. technology to integrate carrier web site functionality into agency management system workflow. This means transactions and carriers can be rapidly added, and agents can rapidly deploy. Developed in close cooperation with The AMS Users' Group, TransactNOW(TM) is available to agencies using all AMS management system products. For further information, contact AMS at iisg@amsworld.com. About AMS Services AMS Services, Inc. provides software and automation services to insurance agents, brokers, carriers, banks, MGAs and other distributors of insurance and financial services. To learn more about AMS products and services, call 800.444.4813 or visit our Web site at www.ams-services.com. About State Auto State Auto Insurance Companies is a regional property and casualty insurance group engaged primarily in writing personal and commercial automobile, homeowners, commercial multi-peril, general liability, workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. and fire insurance. The company currently markets its products through more than 22,000 independent agents associated with approximately 3,500 agencies in 26 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Products are marketed primarily in the central and eastern United States, excluding New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey and the New England states. |
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