Farm Bureau Property and Casualty Insurance Co.selected Accenture Duck Creek Claims software for itspersonal lines, commercial lines and workers' compensationbusinesses. 

Vehicle telematicsprovider Vehcon has partneredwith Verisk InsuranceSolutions to help insurers collect validatedvehicle odometer readings for insurance rating, underwriting andusage-based programs. The product, OdometerConfirm, enables carriers to captureodometer readings using a policyholder's smartphone. Dataautomatically is sent to Vehcon's back-end systems, where themileage is extracted and authenticated before being reported to aninsurance carrier. 

Xuber, Xchanging's insurance softwarebusiness, secured a contract with P&Creinsurer Ariel Re. The six-yearcontract includes Xuber's policy, claims, billing and softwaresuite for the carrier's Lloyd's and Bermudabusinesses. 

Sapiens International Corp. announced thego-live of the Sapiens Reinsurance solution at West BendMutual Insurance Co., a U.S.-based P&C insurer thatoffers products throughout the U.S. 

Columbia Insurance Group expanded itscommercial lines download from IVANS, a divisionof Applied Systems, to include commercial property, generalliabilty, package and workers' compensationinsurance. 

Nearly 100 insurance companies are using Wdesk,a cloud-based productivity platform from Workiva. 

New Software:

HP announced at IASA 2015 a new accelerator: The HPExstream augments the existing capabilities ofAccenture Duck Creek Policy to help insurerstransact business more efficiently through digital channels andconnect with multimedia consumers. 

Accenture also launched Customer InsightsSolution, an integrated software available in the cloud oron-premise, which gives insurers access to and management of newdistribution models. The software uses Accenture Duck Creek Policyas the core administration platform.

Vertafore unveiled its newest carrier solutionwith Carrier Analytics, which provides an untappedview of the personal lines market through advanced customer andindustry data and insights. This platform draws on a unique dataset of actual real-time market activity. In addition, the companyupgraded its ImageRight 6.0 software, which now offers user-centricdesign, mobility and simplified workflow.

Cloud Sherpas, a provider of cloud advisory andtechnology services, released eContact Center and Producer Direct, two newcloud-based solutions for insurance companies built on theSalesforce platform.