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Farmers Insurance uses AgencyConnect™ to deploy an agency interface strategy
LOS ANGELES, CA and BOSTON, MA, January 30, 2008 AgencyPort, Inc., a leading provider of agency portal and agency interface software for property and casualty insurance companies, has provided Farmers Insurance with software to simplify ongoing maintenance of their agency interface system.
Farmers licensed AgencyConnect™ software to transform and maintain a single incoming data structure that is mapped to the company’s eAgent web system. For this interface initiative, Farmers used AgencyConnect™ to help implement IVANS Transformation Station and TransactNOW for real-time bridging of data from AMS and Applied agency management system to Farmers business applications.
With AgencyConnect™, Farmers is able to utilize a single point of connectivity for interface transactions or source agency systems. “In addition to speeding the interface transactions to market, AgencyConnect™ provides Farmers with a single integration source for the development and maintenance of multiple data points with the agency system universe,” stated Adelaide Robertson of Farmers Insurance.
Acting as an ACORD data transformation service, the AgencyConnect™ Server enables carriers to transform and normalize disparate agency source data records into one consistent ACORD XML document in real time. The product provides a development infrastructure to allow business analysts to map ACORD XML to a carrier’s specific internal data structure and a run-time engine to process all transformations and import the data into carrier downstream (web) systems.
AgencyConnect™ can be purchased as a stand-alone product to extend a carrier’s existing agency web offering or bundled with AgencyPortal™ to provide a complete, turnkey agency portal.
About Farmers Insurance Group
"Farmers Insurance Group (www.farmers.com) founded in 1928, is the nation’s third-largest Personal Lines Property & Casualty insurance group. Headquartered in Los Angeles CA,, the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies provide Home, Auto, Business, Life, Manufactured Home, Motor Home, Travel Trailer, Landlord Property, Motorcycle, Off-Road Vehicle, Boat, Personal Watercraft specialty lines and Financial Services."
About Sword Insurance
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