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Title: Legacy and Web Aps Integrated sic

Author: Jordan, Walt Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Database Trends, v18 n2 p1(2) Publication Date: Feb 2004
  ISSN: 1089-019X
URL of Publication: http://www.dbta.com

Getting pricing changes to market for insurance companies is a significant IT challenge that Web-based applications can solve, using a variety of solutions, including Decision Research's VISTA RateMaker and ClientSoft's ServiceBuilder over Microsoft's .NET Web service architecture. An Internet-based policy engine can be developed for this effort. One insurance firm created a unified system that integrated its mainframe and distributed systems, which helped improve speed to market and also eliminated duplicative efforts. It created a policy rating mechanism using VISTA RateMaker. Users plugged in policy information into an Excel spreadsheet, which was then streamed to a policy-rating engine in XML. DRC unified the system by using ServiceBuilder to help integrate the mainframe and Web platforms. The solution can be applied to other vertical industries. While this solution requires some COBOL maintenance, the elimination of tedious programming is much welcomed.

Companies:
Abraxas Software Inc Decision Research Corp
Microsoft Corp

Products:
CodeCheck Microsoft .NET
VISTA RateMaker

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