AdminServer accepted into the SOA Specialty in IBM's PartnerWorld for Industry Networks.Service Oriented Architecture Approach drives Business Agility and Flexibility CHESTER, Pa. -- AdminServer, Inc, a leading provider of next generation policy administration solutions to the insurance industry, today announced its acceptance to the 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) SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement the AdminServer Policy Administration System integrates with the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industry's top application server and integration capabilities. The IBM SOA Specialty provides technical enablement and skills-building roadmap for partners who want to access the growing SOA market opportunity. For those who achieve key milestones the Specialty will also provide SOA-specific marketing and sales benefits such as SOA Connection Events to meet directly with IBM SOA Sales specialists and discounted print advertising and telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. . IBM Sales Connections, a consultative service in the PartnerWorld Industry Networks, helps business partners close SOA deals quickly by connecting them with the relevant IBM SOA and local field sales team. "SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for insurance companies because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "Building a close relationship with partners including AdminServer helps us ensure our customers have the business and technical resources to successfully use an SOA to respond to meet business goals." Kevin Walma, AdminServer's CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. added, "The strength of our Integration Strategy resides in the use of 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. along with a Middleware-based Integration Architecture to create a SOA that greatly simplifies the task of integrating the AdminServer System with disparate systems." He continues, "We are excited to be a part of IBM's SOA Specialty because the capability from our combined solutions provides our mutual insurer clients an extraordinary value by capitalizing on our developed expertise." The AdminServer Policy Administration System, UVServer, IllustrationServer and NewBusinessServer were all built utilizing new technologies in concert with proven web-based processes. The results were 100% web-based solutions free from traditional system limitations. An easy-to-configure 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. rules engine is used to describe all transactions, product definitions, business rules, data validations In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines, often called validation rules, that check for correctness or meaningfulness of data that are input to the system. , user security, and interface behavior and cosmetics. The underlying base systems then interpret and process these rules in real-time. The flexibility of the rules engine combined with the raw processing power of the core systems allows AdminServer to serve as a complete business processing platform supporting all functional aspects of the policy life cycle. About AdminServer, Inc. AdminServer, Inc. is a premier solutions provider for the insurance community. AdminServer has been delivering administrative system solutions, services, and consulting since 1998. Currently AdminServer offers the only life insurance, annuity, health, and reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. administration system designed specifically as a web application employing 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 .NET strategies and technologies. Additionally, AdminServer has expanded their product offerings to include UVServer (unit value management and fund accounting), IllustrationServer (point of sale illustrations), NewBusinessServer (new business and underwriting Underwriting 1. The process by which investment bankers raise investment capital from investors on behalf of corporations and governments that are issuing securities (both equity and debt). 2. The process of issuing insurance policies. ) and DistributionServer (license and appointment and commissions). To learn more about AdminServer products and services, call 610-619-3100, e-mail info@adminserver.com, or visit the website at www.AdminServer.com. |
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