Step By Step To SEMCI
For years agents have soughtand carriers have talkedaboutimplementation of standardized agency-carrier interface.
Such interface would allow complete applications to be submittedto several insurers with a keystroke. Those policies could be ratedand a quote from each company returned in a few minutes. Somewherealong the way the term SEMCI (single-entry, multiple-carrierinterface) was coined to describe this concept.
The importance of SEMCI was brought home recently when the AUGIE(ACORD User Groups Information Exchange) survey indicated thattraining and keeping up with technology are the independent agentsbiggest challenges. Between initial training of new personnel andretraining of existing personnel to use upgrades of the numeroussystems needed to keep essential records, manage agency workflowsand communicate with the carriers they represent, automationeducation has become a big agency expense.
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