Broadreach Consulting Helps Launch First Web Site for Insurance Professionals with Internet Pipeline.Business/Technology Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 myAgency.net to enable insurance agencies to market, sell, and process insurance online Broadreach Consulting, Inc., a leading Internet Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm focused on implementing Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) eBusiness solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, today announced the completion of a comprehensive Web site for Internet Pipeline. myAgency.net is the industry's first Web site that provides "back office" tools for insurance agents, brokers, 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. professionals. The online tools enable end-to-end processing for the sale of life insurance, long term care insurance, and annuity annuity: see insurance. annuity Payment made at a fixed interval. A common example is the payment received by retirees from their pension plan. There are two main classes of annuities: annuities certain and contingent annuities. products. "We needed to create a business-to-business tool that would enable insurance agents to get quicker response times for their customers. We had the business model, but we didn't have the time or staff in place," said Shawn Carey, vice president and co-founder of Internet Pipeline. "Broadreach Consulting offered a level of expertise we couldn't find anywhere else. They were able to help us develop an infrastructure that matched Microsoft's standards. When you are trying to build your business around a Web site this is crucial to your survival." myAgency.net is a Web site that houses everything an agent would need to market, sell, and process insurance in one place, allowing agents to have universal access. The site offers quoting tools that show hundreds of products in side-by-side comparisons, electronic application forms, 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. requirements, product guides, and continual updates on industry changes. In addition agents will be able to obtain licensing forms, order paramedical par·a·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being a person trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. 2. exams, and take continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). courses on-line. The site includes access to data from over one hundred insurance companies and in the future will feature a contact management system. "Internet Pipeline is a company that will change the way the insurance industry does business," said Jim Dixon, chief executive officer at Broadreach Consulting. "We are pleased to be part of the solution that has helped to create the first Web-enabled `back office' insurance tool for agents, brokers, and financial service professionals. We look forward to working with them in the future as they continue to be trendsetters in their arena." About Internet Pipeline Internet Pipeline was founded in July 1995 and is located in Exton, Pennsylvania Exton is a census-designated place (CDP) in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,267 at the 2000 census. The Exton Square Mall is located within Exton. Transportation Exton lies at the intersection of the U.S. . Internet Pipeline is a rapidly growing eBusiness company targeting the insurance industry. Their Business-to-Business exchange platform delivers Web-based back office tools to agents, brokers, and financial service professionals which enable them to market, sell, and process insurance products. Internet Pipeline currently tracks, updates, and maintains the industry's largest database of insurance information. Broadreach Consulting, Inc. Broadreach Consulting is an Internet Professional Services firm focused on delivering Business-to-Business (B2B) eBusiness solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. As a Crossroads 2000 A-List Award recipient, Broadreach delivers strategy and technology implementation on complex Internet-based initiatives with expertise in supply chain management, e-Procurement,eEnterprise information portals, knowledge management, customer relationship management and eCommerce. As a preferred partner for those businesses dedicated to success in the new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. economy, Broadreach is recognized as a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner and an 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) (R) Premier Business Partner, and is a member of the Eastern Technology Council. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company was founded in 1997, and has offices in Atlanta and Raleigh. Visit Broadreach's Web site at www.ebroadreach.com. |
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