AdminServer Selects PilotFish Technology as Preferred Systems Integrator.CHESTER, Pa. -- PilotFish Technology's middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a software and services to provide rapid integration of AdminServer system with any third party system AdminServer, Inc. announced today that they have selected PilotFish Technology as their preferred provider of integration services for AdminServer's policy administration system. Utilizing their popular XMLife Communications Suite integration toolset (XCS XCS Cross Country Skiing XCS Experimental Contamination Studies Toolset), PilotFish Technology will provide rapid integration of the AdminServer system with third party systems. PilotFish's XCS Toolset supports the transformation of proprietary data formats "to and from" the 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) 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. standard, enabling PilotFish to quickly integrate the AdminServer system with virtually any third party system; regardless of the system's platform, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , technological currency or level of compliance with ACORD XML standards. "We are very pleased that AdminServer has selected us as their systems integration partner. Combining the power and agility of the AdminServer system with our middleware for rapid and quality integration offers the insurance industry a low risk and quick path to the new technology infrastructure so desperately needed by many of today's insurance companies," explained Neil Schappert, President of PilotFish Technology. Schappert added, "Leading research firms all agree that more than 50% of a company's IT budget is spent on building and maintaining interfaces. PilotFish's tools, technology and library of pre-developed insurance industry interfaces can dramatically reduce those costs -- in many cases by 95% or more." "While the AdminServer system offers a Web-enabled, modern day technology and ACORD compliant architecture, it is unfortunate that many of the legacy systems that we need to integrate with are not as technologically advanced," remarked Ric Young, Chief Marketing Officer with AdminServer. "PilotFish offers us an extremely robust middleware solution that allows us to transform third party proprietary formats to and from the ACORD XML standard that we utilize for our system. And, unlike traditional integration methods, PilotFish is able to get the effort done in a drastically shortened short·en v. short·ened, short·en·ing, short·ens v.tr. 1. To make short or shorter. 2. timeframe." About PilotFish Technology Based in Wethersfield, CT, PilotFish Technology provides comprehensive tools and services to dramatically reduce the complexity, time and cost of developing, deploying and maintaining ACORD compliant e-commerce applications and interfaces. More than 130 companies have licensed the XMLife Communications Suite Toolset from PilotFish since its release November 2002. To learn more about PilotFish Technology, please visit the website at www.pilotfishtechnology.com or call 860-257-0523. About AdminServer, Inc. AdminServer, Inc. is a premier solutions provider for the insurance community. AdminServer has been delivering administrative system solutions, web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , and consulting since 1998. Today AdminServer specializes in fixed and variable annuities Variable annuities Investment contracts whose issuer pays a periodic amount linked to the investment performance of an underlying portfolio. , pensions, immediate annuities immediate annuity An annuity that is purchased with a lump sum and that begins making payments one period after the purchase. Immediate annuities are most commonly purchased by people who have accumulated a sum of money and are ready for retirement. , and life insurance. Currently AdminServer offers the only annuity, health, and life insurance administration system designed specifically as a web application employing IBM's J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. and Microsoft's .NET strategies and technologies. To learn more about AdminServer products and services, please call 972.715.2028, e-mail Ric Young (ricy@AdminServer.com), or visit the website at www.AdminServer.com. |
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