As we kick off the New Year, our family continues to grow with another client for Open+, our single solution policy administration system for P&C, E&S and specialty insurance and reinsurance companies. With 11 Open+ installations live or in production in North America, the newest Sword Insurance believer is Pennsylvania School Boards Association Insurance Trust…
Sword Intech was founded in 1968, (and yes, its single system for underwriting, billing & claims has been rearchitected since) and works with over 60 insurers. Known best for being a market leader in policy administration for the Lloyd’s market, Sword Intech also serves companies in Asia and Europe but most of its clients are…
First, the flight from New York went right over the Grand Canyon. Pretty amazing. For the record, Fos thinks it’s Bryce Canyon, I’m not sure. Perhaps a reader can identify it in the comments. Second, we had some enjoyable client golf in the 55 degree, blistery cold desert – no joke it’s late May and…
When the Sword Group acquired AgencyPort in November 2009 (announced in the press and on this blog), the story centered around enhancing what AgencyPort had to offer in insurance technology solutions and how AgencyPort could expand into new global markets. Today we announce our new web site which describes how AgencyPort and other Sword solutions…
Today we announced an upcoming webinar (March 25th, 2pm ET) conducted by Steve & Eric about our solutions for the program and specialty markets. Whether you write business through program administrators, MGAs, MGUs or write program business directly through retailers or trade associations, AgencyPort streamlines rate/quote/bind and also normalize inbound data. It’s not just our…
Or so says a fan on the official Agile Manifesto web site (every revolution, even those in project management, needs a good manifesto). (Find good background on the methodology and its manifesto here). Listening today to a webinar by Camilion about product configuration being a key driver in staying current in today’s market, we picked…
AgencyPort leads the way with effective transaction portals for property & casualty insurance. We start with product definitions and layer in business rules and portal behaviors that are tied to the product definition, all of which is easy to build and maintain. The ToolKit enables quick add / edit / remove of portal pages and…
AgencyPort makes it easier for insurance carriers to interact with distribution channels. We enable carriers to offer more product through more sales channels and we help carriers become better ranked in the critical category of “ease of doing business”. We install software onsite and behind carrier firewalls and/or provide hosted solutions for carriers, but in every case our…
If you look at our website, we list our products, including their name and some description of their function. But insurance companies have problems – they need solutions such as “connecting to comparative raters” or “our agent portal ranks poorly with agents, we need a better one”. That’s why we list a handful of solutions…