DIS OFFERS NEW MARKETING SYSTEM
San Diego-based Disability Insurance Services (DIS) is offering a new insurance marketing system that the company claims will "rev up disability insurance sales." Broker Computer Assisted Marketing (BCAM), which the company said is designed to process leads through an automatic quote system, will be offered to insurance brokers for free.
According to the company, BCAM is designed to save time by allowing users to select a pre-fabricated e-mail. The program then fills in the company's name, logo and contact information.
CSC RELEASES MULTIPURPOSE SUITE
Falls Church, Va.-based software solutions provider CSC has released Integral, a software suite designed to provide end-to-end policy/group management and product configuration, which includes business analytics capabilities.
The program, created to expand CSC's technology for LIFE/Asia, POLISY/Asia, POLISY/J, LIFE/J and GROUP/Asia, is designed to support multi-line, multi-lingual and multi-currency insurance processing for life insurance, annuities/pensions, property/casualty/general insurance and group insurance administration.
EDGE IPK INTRODUCES EDGECONNECT 5.0
edge IPK, a Farmington, Conn.-based provider of insurance-specific, user-experience solutions that enable a secure, browser-based presentation layer to provide all distribution channels an ideal user experience, announced the launch and immediate availability of edgeConnect 5.0. The solution offers insurers the ability to configure multi-channel applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional methods, the company says.
With a growing number of businesses looking to develop multi-channel applications, and with demand from end-users for more complex and fully featured Web offerings, edgeConnect 5.0 has been designed to focus solely on the presentation layer to enable carriers to deliver richer individual online experiences.
Included in edgeConnect 5.0 is support for external, customized and out-of-the-box widgets, a host of presentation and usability elements to support dynamic presentation behavior and graphical reporting and automated documentation.
DECISIONMAKER MOBILE AVAILABLE FOR IPHONE
DRC (Decision Research Corp.), a Honolulu-based provider of rating and policy administration solutions, released DecisionMaker Mobile for the iPhone. DecisionMaker Mobile can be integrated with any policy administration, billing or claims system. Regardless of the back-end system generating the request, DecisionMaker Mobile can be configured to connect to the platform and complete a transaction through standard Internet protocols, the company says.
DecisionMaker Mobile is intended to enable insurance customers to be notified of upcoming payments, pay bills, download insurance identification cards, report claims and file endorsements with attachments.
Insurers using DecisionMaker Mobile can apply their own company branding to the applications and distribute them to their customers through the iTunes store. In addition to iPhone, DecisionMaker Mobile services can be utilized through the iPad for claims adjuster entry and quoting of amendments, endorsements or new business.
Because DecisionMaker Mobile leverages the existing DecisionMaker services foundation, additional functionality can easily be exposed through the mobile application specific to each carrier's business requirements, DRC says.
