Beacon Insurance Co. Selects Ericom's Host Publisher to Web Enable their AS/400 Legacy System.Business Editors HACKENSACK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 Ericom Software Ericom Software, Inc. founded in 1993 is located in Closter, New Jersey, and provides software for enterprise-wide application access for server-based computing environments, (Citrix-like), running on Microsoft Windows Terminal Services (via the Remote Desktop Protocol, RDP), Virtual , Inc. announces that Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. Insurance Group, a Property & Casualty insurance company serving over 450 agents in Texas, has chosen PowerTerm Host Publisher to Web enable their AS/400 Legacy system. Beacon is growing; they have recently been licensed to sell in Tennessee and Arkansas. To support this growth, the Beacon web application, www.insurancebybeacon.com (IBB IBB International Broadcasting Bureau (US government) IBB Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics IBB Islamic Bank of Britain IBB I'll Be Back IBB Intentional Base on Balls ), must provide agents in those new states with a rating engine. The IT group used Ericom's PowerTerm Host Publisher to access the AS/400 legacy system rating engine and policy processing functions. PowerTerm Host Publisher can extract information from the widest range of computing computing - computer environments and databases, and enables companies to use the latest technologies, such as the Web, Wireless devices 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. . Unlike other solutions, an operational e-business application can be created in just days or weeks, instead of months, using PowerTerm Host Publisher. Host Publisher allowed Beacon Insurance Company to Web enable their legacy applications when exposing business transactions on the Internet. By using PowerTerm Host Publisher, Beacon Insurance benefits from having a Web presence, while preserving the stability and reliability of their existing computing systems. Agents can now provide instant quotes for their insured. By using PowerTerm Host Publisher, Beacon is able to issue Binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. Policies, enter claims, and accept direct online bill payments with immediate updates to the AS/400 legacy system. Beacon was provided with an e-Business integration suite which allows the bridge between two totally different technologies (an old AS/400 internal system and their new Web application). Ericom's technology saved Beacon a lot of money and development time and enabled Beacon the fastest time-to-market solution with their new Web application. Barbara Hitz, Director of Internet Technology for Beacon Insurance Group states, "We looked at several of these types of products. Host Publisher took the least amount of time to set up. The Application Wizard automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. the tedious script writing process. What would normally take hours to code and test, took less than half of an hour." Barbara continues, "What could have taken up to a year, will be done in less than a quarter." |
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