OneShield, Inc., the developer of OneShield Dragon, a policy management solution, announces astrategic partnership with Brovada Technologies, which enable the integration of theirinsurance-focused products. The partnership will allow NorthAmerican insurers to leverage Brovada's portal alternativesolutions to drive straight-through processing for real-timetransactions with Dragon's policy management capabilities.

"Combining the capabilities of Brovada's portal with Dragon'spolicy management capabilities will deliver measurable benefitsincluding improved ease of business for brokers and agents andincreased underwriting efficiency," says Liza Smith, generalmanager of global strategy for OneShield. "Standardized integrationpoints offer a powerful starting point for carriers to reference,enhance or modify to meet their needs and we feel confident thatworking together, OneShield and Brovada can help carriers realizefaster speed to market with improved service levels."

OneShield Dragon is a tools-based, data-driven insuranceunderwriting, policy administration, rating and workflow system forpersonal, commercial, and specialty lines of business.

"We are very excited about adding OneShield to our list ofgrowing strategic partnerships," says Karl Greenlaw, founder andCEO of Brovada. "OneShield is a recognized leader in the policymanagement space and by leveraging our NexExchange portalalternative and conversion module insurers will gain great benefitsas they leap into a modern era."

Brovada's NexExchange portal alternative is a company-sidesoftware solution that provides a Web-service interface to acarrier's policy administration system. NexExchange can beimplemented either as a portal alternative or be used to provideportal automation. In either case, brokers and agents benefit bynot having to re-key information they have already inputted intotheir agency management system. Brovada also has experienceintegrating to legacy systems and leverages the NexExchangeconversion module to assist with data cleansing, conversion, andmigration for policy replacement initiatives.