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Castek and NetRate, Inc. Agree to Joint Offering; NetRate's Rating Solution Complements Castek's Insure3 Suite.


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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2003

NetRate Inc. and Castek Inc. have formed a strategic alliance, completing a framework for both companies to offer a joint solution that integrates Castek's Insure Insure can mean:
  • To provide for financial or other mitigation if something goes wrong: see insurance or .
  • Or you may be looking for ensure or inshore.
3 policy administration and NetRate's rating/quoting solutions. This alliance helps property and casualty insurance companies realize efficiency and customer service benefits from improved rating and policy administration solutions for both commercial and personal lines carriers.

"Our partnership with NetRate exemplifies the way in which companies can work together for the benefit of their customers," says Pete Jones Pete Jones can refer to different people:
  • Pete Jones, the director of Stolen Summer, via Project Greenlight.
  • Pete Jones The bass player for Public Image Limited 1982/83. He previously played for Cowboys International and Brian Brain.
, Castek's President and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. . "NetRate's rating solution is a best-in-class solution for the insurance industry which complements the functionality of our Insure3 product suite. Collaborating with NetRate allows for faster implementation and reduced maintenance effort, enabling customers to achieve greater efficiencies and realize a larger ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  that much sooner."

"'Rate, Quote and Issue' is the foundation of insurance companies' business processes," says Dave Jordan, President of NetRate Systems. "The combination of Castek's Insure3 Policy administration systems and NetRate's extensive rating products ensures a world class solution for the P&C industry. Their integration allows underwriters, employees and agents the ability to enter and manage risk information, then instantaneously in·stan·ta·ne·ous  
adj.
1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous.

2.
 Rate/Quote and issue policies for all lines of business."

About Castek

Castek Inc. (Toronto, ON.) specializes in strategic business software for P&C insurance. Recognized for the advanced architecture and flexibility of its products, Castek provides carriers with a suite of core business processing systems for insurance product and process configuration, policy processing, and claims management. For more information, please visit www.castek.com or call 1-866-9CASTEK.

About NetRate

NetRate Systems, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan “Lansing” redirects here. For other uses, see Lansing (disambiguation).
Lansing is the capital city of the U.S. state of Michigan, and the state's sixth largest city.
, was founded to help insurance companies capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on`   

v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>.
 the growing market need for increased premium accuracy and the demand for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  rating, quoting, and application-processing services. NetRate, with over 100 years of combined company expertise in the development of Property & Casualty Rating and Applications software, has company-specific rating products for both personal and commercial lines, using today's latest technology.
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