BCF Technology Launches TIER Platform Version 3.0 for Insurance & Financial Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003 BCF BCF Billion Cubic Feet BCF Bioconcentration Factor BCF British Chess Federation BCF British Coatings Federation BCF Breast Cancer Fund BCF Bank Credit Facility BCF Bulked Continuous Filament BCF British Cycling Federation BCF Boeing Converted Freighter Technology, Inc., a leading provider 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. , integration & aggregation of data, competitive intelligence information, and single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. technology solutions for the insurance and 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. , utilities, communications, government, and manufacturing sectors announces the launch of its Transaction, Integration, Extraction, and Recovery (TIER) Platform Version 3.0. Version 3.0 of the TIER Platform introduces new features and functionality including: -- Web Services -- Single Sign-On Solutions -- Native AL3 to XML Translation -- Native PDF to XML Translation -- Built in Debugging -- Mainframe Integration Capabilities "Our new version of the TIER Platform now has the inherent capability to accept just about any piece of data, whether it is Acord 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. , XML, AL3, Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. , or data directly from a database. We accept the data and normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. it in order to create a web service that can integrate directly to our clients' applications without requiring them to rebuild their application or build an information gateway. We believe the new functionality dramatically expands our market potential," said Fred Covely, chief executive officer of BCF. Frederick Waite, president of BCF added, "I am extremely excited about the new release. We have listened to the marketplace and created a new version of the TIER Platform that solves many of the challenges faced by today's organizations. Developing an integration to internal applications or creating a web service to expose a transaction to a business partner is typically a costly endeavor that takes up precious internal resources. As a result of the enhanced TIER Platform, most of our implementations require little or no internal resource time; saving our clients significant resource costs while implementing new integrations much faster. We have created web services for insurance quoting, inquiry transactions, and data extractions Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). that were completed in a fraction of the time that it would normally take." About BCF TECHNOLOGY BCF Technology is a leading provider of web services, integration & aggregation of data, competitive intelligence information, and single sign-on technology solutions for the insurance and financial services, utilities, communications, government, and manufacturing sectors. For information about BCF's products and services, email fwaite@bcftech.com or visit our web site at www.bcftech.com. |
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