PMSC Leverages Synon Technology to Develop Windows NT Enterprise Solution for Insurance Providers.NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1998-- Leading Enterprise and eCommerce Software Company Uses Synon's Obsydian to Generate Property and Casualty Insurance Solution for NT Platform Synon(R) Corporation and Policy Management Systems Corporation(R) today demonstrated PMSC PMSC Policy Management Systems Corporation PMSC Political Military Steering Committee PMSC Peterborough Motor Sports Club PMSC Professional Media Service Corporation PMSC Private Military and Security Company PMSC Pilipinong Migrante Sa Canada (R)'s POINT+(tm) at the Microsoft TechoEd 98 conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . POINT+, now available for property and casualty insurance carriers, is one of the first large-scale insurance applications to be developed for the Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT Server operating system See network operating system. using Synon's Obsydian(R) environment. Obsydian is a development tool that allows users to architect systems once, then automatically generate applications for new platforms and technologies. "Through the use of Synon's Obsydian environment, we were able to bring to market a Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. version of our function-rich insurance system without having to change development environments," said Michael D. Gantt, PMSC's Chief Technology Officer. "Obsydian allowed us to leverage a proven application that was previously developed with Obsydian and available only on the AS/400 platform. By being able to regenerate our application patterns (objects) for Windows NT, we were able to respond in a timely fashion to changing market demands." POINT+ is an integrated processing system for automating policy administration for personal and commercial insurance, claims management, accounting, billing, and reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. . The POINT+ development effort is part of a larger 1998 initiative by PMSC to deliver five, key insurance solutions on Windows NT and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . PMSC is also implementing a program to train 4000 technical and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. personnel on Microsoft technology over the next 12 months. "PMSC has leveraged its partnership with Microsoft to become one of the pioneers in delivering enterprise NT applications for 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. and insurance industries that are easier to use, have a lower cost of ownership, and provide extended customer value," said Keith Jaeger jaeger (yā`gər), common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull and the tern. The skua is also a member of this family. , Synon's vice president of development. "PMSC's choice to use Obsydian to generate its enterprise-class applications is another example of the increasing use of Synon's model-based solutions to architect success for customers on Windows NT." Synon's Obsydian is a model-based application development environment that allows customers to protect their IT investments by architecting their systems once and then automatically generating those applications for new platforms and technologies such as Windows NT and Java. PMSC has used Obsydian and the Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice generator in its strategic efforts to make POINT+ available on the Windows NT platform. Synon's model-based development and automatic generation approach has helped PMSC deliver a solution to meet the needs of customers and prospects for advanced technologies and platforms. As a customer-driven organization, PMSC has been able to easily maintain and deploy new application functionality for property and casualty insurance companies that want to leverage the latest in client/server technologies. "POINT+ will help PMSC's customers realize the cost and functionality advantages of running enterprise-scale Windows NT applications," said Charles Stevens, vice president of the Application Developers Customer Unit at Microsoft. "PMSC's use of Obsydian, and their partnerships with Microsoft and Synon, will help ensure that the application keeps pace with the latest Microsoft technologies." About PMSC PMSC, headquartered in Columbia, S.C., is the leader is providing enterprise and electronic commerce software, professional services, and outsourcing designed to meet the needs of the global insurance and related financial service industries. Information on PMSC and its products and services can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.pmsc.com/. About Synon Synon Corporation, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in Larkspur Larkspur, city, United States Larkspur, city (1990 pop. 11,070), Marin co., W Calif., a prestigious residential suburb of San Francisco near Mt. Tamalpais; inc. 1908. The region's scenic beauty and excellent beaches attract many visitors. , Calif., is a leading provider of model-based, integrated development technologies and services for customer and commercial application development. For more information on Synon, please visit www.synon.com. CONTACT: Synon Corporation Shawn Gathas, 415/461-5000, ext. 1860 skg@synon.com or Neale-May and Partners Derek Kober, 415/328-5555, ext. 126 dkober@nealemay.com |
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