Company: IBM
Product: IBM Middleware Solutionfor Insurance
Web site: www.ibm.com

IBM has introduced new middleware software solutions designed to help insurance customers solve business problems unique to the industry. These solutions will be complemented by services and support from IBM in addition to industry-specific applications software from independent software vendors.

Insurers are faced with increasing pressures to improve their operating efficiencies. To ease these pressures, IBM has five new insurance offerings: Integrated Claims Management, Integrated Underwriting, Policy Management, Channel Distribution Integration, and Insurance Customer Insight.
The IBM Middleware Solution for Insurance brings together IBM core software product functionality and industry-specific IBM middleware, which are extended further by the capabilities of the IBM Business Partner ecosystem. For example, the Channel Distribution Integration solution leverages the core capabilities of WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere Portal, and Tivoli products augmented by industry-specific middleware functionality provided by the WebSphere Business Integration ACORD adapter and the Financial Services Portal Workbench Framework.