agency management systems

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  Straight-Through Processing Among Key Benefits of e-Signature Adoption

  By Michael Laurie  |  April 29, 2013

  The insurance industry is in the midst of a shift from paper to all-electronic processes. To keep the electronic chain intact, carriers and agents are incorporating electronic signatures, particularly for new business processing.

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  6 Steps to Switching Agency Systems—and What to Do Afterward

  By Michael Miller  |  April 24, 2013

  The same transitional steps used by a multistate insurance franchise apply to the smallest insurance agency.

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  How Mobile and Cloud Technology Kept an Agency Running During Sandy

  By James Lawson  |  April 1, 2013

  Catastrophes like Superstorm Sandy accelerate the growing role of mobile and cloud technology for agent-customer-insurer connectivity. And for an industry that’s traditionally averse to embracing technology, it’s a game changer.

• Applied Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire IVANS’ P&C Business

  By Staff Writer  |  March 7, 2013

  Applied Systems, Inc., a provider of software that powers the business of insurance, announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire the property & Casualty (P&C) business of IVANS, a provider of technology solutions that enable data exchange and integration between insurance carriers and agencies.

• Gold in the Mountains

  By James R. Hackbarth  |  March 1, 2013

  Thanks to technology, we have a mountain—or even a volcano—of data at our fingertips.

• Profitability is an Inside Job

  By Dan Epstein  |  February 1, 2013

  Calculate the costs of processing to increase growth, and learn the hidden impact of processing on your bottom line

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  How Well are Insurers and Agents Connected?

  By Deb Smallwood  |  January 30, 2013

  The industry has been working on insurer/agent electronic linkage since the mid-1980s, trying to manage the complexity of numerous systems in the agents’ offices that need to talk to many different insurance systems. In order to examine the state of connectivity and explore how insurers and agents are directing their...

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  Finding the Right Tech Combination for Insurer-Agency Relationships

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 18, 2013

  Eventually, the connection between insurance carriers and the independent agents that sell their products will become simpler, but until the two sides agree on what’s best for each of them—individually and collectively—there remains a level of complexity in distribution management, according to Deb Smallwood, founder of Strategy meets Action (SMA)....

• With or Without You

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  December 11, 2012

  To meet the needs and expectations of mobile employees, agents, and customers—and driven by economic pressures that slashed travel budgets in recent years—insurers have been capitalizing on collaborative technology.

• IVANS Enhances Exchange to Enable Management of Agency-Carrier Communications

  By Staff Writer  |  October 23, 2012

  IVANS, Inc. announces it has launched an enhanced Insurance Carrier Exchange (ICE) website to provide an easier way for carriers to manage the process of doing business electronically with their independent agents. IVANS ICE is the platform that carriers use to register agents and manage the distribution of policy...

• Brovada Brings Agent Connectivity Solution to the U.S.

  By Staff Writer  |  October 10, 2012

  Brovada Technologies, a provider of insurance agent-carrier connectivity solutions, announces the U.S. launch of the company's NexCenter agency upload software, as well as three strategic partnerships with prominent agency management system companies in the U.S.

• Insurance IT All-Stars Leading the Way

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 4, 2012

  As always, our class of IT All-Stars is an experienced—but varied—group of IT executives that have dealt with the serious problems that have faced the industry and is making plans to deal with the issues that are about to come our way.

• Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 4, 2012

  Finding ways to achieve ease of doing business needs to be the goal of not just insurance carriers, but independent agents as well.

• Seven Questions About Remote Access

  By Frank Sentner  |  September 4, 2012

  Off-the-shelf software and hardware now make remote work widely feasible.

• Applied Systems launches Mobile App for Agencies

  By Staff Writer  |  August 22, 2012

  Insurance software provider Applied Systems announces the release of MobileProducer, a mobile application designed specifically for insurance producers that provides them instant access to client information.

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  2012 Insurance IT All-Stars: Thad DeBerry, Western World Insurance

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 21, 2012

  Thad DeBerry is excited about the future of insurance technology because of the many opportunities that exist.