Microsoft IVC -- Break from the Insurance Pack
The traditional IT model for insurance has been using the same processing models and the same providers -- no differentiation there, says Dan Woodman, Microsoft's technology strategist for the U.S. insurance industry. Microsoft's Insurance Value Chain, with solutions from partners that can be combined with a carrier's own in-house solutions, offers a way for carriers to achieve a competitive edge through technology.
Plays well with others? Technology partners have brought their aplications to Microsoft's Platform Adoption Center in Redmond to esign and build integration scenarios and workflows. New business auto has a ready to roll solution combining POS from XDimensional Technologies, rate and quote from INSTEC, underwriting and policy admin from Insuresoft and replacement cost info from Bluebook International.