Bright Grey, a member of The Royal LondonInsurance Group, has renewed its Sapiens ALISmaintenance and services contract for five years, with a contractvalued at up to $3.3 million. By leveraging the Sapiens ALIS policyadministration system, Bright Grey has been able to launch newproducts into the IFA community to meet the continuous demands fornew product offerings and product features.

Arbella Insurance announced the successfuldeployment of Zeacom Communications Centersoftware. Among the benefits achieved are reduced abandonment rate,improved service levels, and increased agent productivity. Zeacomprovides agents with business intelligence in real-time, measureperformance, and ensures that each customer is routed to theappropriate agent.

WARTA S.A. Insurance and Reinsurance Company,Poland's second largest non-life insurance company, andGuidewire Software, Inc., a provider of flexiblecore systems to non-life insurers, announces that Warta hasselected Guidewire ClaimCenter as its new claims management system.ClaimCenter will help Warta develop claims services for itscustomers and refine the company's claims handling processes.Sollers Consulting, a Guidewire PartnerConnect alliance programmember, will join Guidewire and Warta on the implementation.

IDIQ awarded a contract to SalientFederal Solutions to support IDIQ's PensionBenefit Guaranty Corporation. The IT infrastructureoperations services and support program provides infrastructureoperations and maintenance and development, modernization, andenhancement support to PBGC.

FBL Financial Group, Inc., announces it haslicensed FAST Insurance Components to serve as thecore policy administration and new business system for its lifeinsurance business. Once implemented, the solution will support newbusiness, underwriting, policy administration, and payouts andenable FBL to deliver superior service to both customers andagents.

FHM Insurance Company has selectedSunGard's iWorks Enterprise Accounting System andInvestments solutions to help increase operational efficiencies byconsolidating financial and investment accounting onto a singleplatform. The solutions give FHM the ability to transform financialdata into actionable insights, improve efficiency and streamlineworkflows.

Horseshoe Group, a provider of management andadvisory services to insurers and reinsurers, selected the synergy2underwriting platform from Eurobase InsuranceSolutions. The platform provides flexibility to handleboth the service company business and the reinsurance business in asingle application.