American National Insurance Company Expands Use of BPM with Pegasystems.Longtime Customer Eyes Even More Improvement at its Contact Centers With Pegasystems' SmartBPM Suite CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Pegasystems Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGA PEGA Programs in Extra-Galactic Astronomy PEGA Poly(Ethylene Glycol)-Polyacrylamide Copolymer (used in chromatography) ), the leader in unified process The Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process or RUP. and rules technology, today announced that American National Insurance Company American National Insurance Company (NASDAQ: ANAT) is one of the largest life insurance companies in the United States. The company was founded in Galveston, Texas by William L. Moody, Jr. in 1905. It operates numerous subsidiaries throughout several U.S. (Nasdaq: ANAT) has expanded its use of business process management through Pegasystems' SmartBPM Suite[R] to drive efficiency and deliver continuous improvements across the organization. With Pegasystems, ANICO ANICO American National Insurance Company has made significant improvements in contact center performance by enabling legacy system data reuse, reducing agent re·duc·ing agent n. A substance that chemically reduces other substances, especially by donating an electron or electrons. training time, ensuring consistent delivery of information and eliminating redundant work processes. The latest version of the SmartBPM Suite, in concert with the Customer Process Manager (CPM (1) (Critical Path Method) A project management planning and control technique implemented on computers. The critical path is the series of activities and tasks in the project that have no built-in slack time. ) framework for customer service, will enable ANICO to realize additional benefits and drive future results. "Pegasystems is one investment that has clearly paid dividends. Its BPM suite See BPM. has provided significant performance gains in our contact centers and directly helped service ANICO's policyholders and agents," said Gary Kirkham, vice president and director, Planning and Support, ANICO. "We're excited to start the next phase of our BPM journey. We will automate the processes and rules supporting our Security Help Desk. This pilot project will pave the way for the eventual migration of all our operational contact centers. We are very confident that Pegasystems' technology will continue to yield great results." After the initial deployment of Pegasystems technology in one contact center in 1998, ANICO quickly realized the vast benefits BPM could deliver for the profitable 102 year-old, leading provider of life, property, casualty, credit and health insurance. ANICO has since expanded its use of Pegasystems to the majority of the contact centers for its Home Office operation. All significant metrics, such as abandonment rates, average speed of answer and average handling time have improved by double digits Double Digits was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Played from April 20, 1973 through May 18, 1973's show, it was played for a car and used small prizes. . "ANICO's long term success is proof positive of what companies can do when they partner with Pegasystems to provide business users with better access and more precise control over their business processes," said Leon Trefler, managing director of sales, Pegasystems. "ANICO's proven results not only illustrate Pegasystems deep experience in the insurance market, but they also demonstrate the how strong a tool BPM can be for both business and IT." About ANICO American National Insurance Company is headquartered in Galveston, Texas
Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts. , and targeted commercial exposures. American National's major insurance subsidiaries include American National Life Insurance Company of Texas, Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, Garden State Life Insurance Company Garden State Life Insurance Company is a small direct life insurance company located in League City, Texas. The company celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2006, but has not been located in New Jersey, nicknamed the garden state, in many years. , American National Property and Casualty Company, American National de Mexico, Compania de Seguros de Vida, S.A. de C.V. and the insurance subsidiaries of Farm Family Holdings, Inc. consisting of Farm Family Life Insurance Company, Farm Family Casualty Insurance Company, and United Farm Family Insurance Company. About Pegasystems Pegasystems Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGA) provides software to automate complex, changing business processes. Pegasystems, the leader in unified process and rules technology, gives business people and IT departments the ability to use best processes across the enterprise and outperform their competition. Our new class of Business Process Management (BPM) technology makes enterprise systems easy to use and easy to change. By automating policy manuals, system specifications and lines of manual coding with dynamically responsive updates, Pegasystems powers the world's most sophisticated organizations to Build for Change[TM]. Pegasystems' award-winning, standards-based BPM suite is complemented with best-practice solution frameworks to help leaders in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance, healthcare, life sciences, government and other markets drive growth and productivity. |
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