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Insurance Value Chain PartnersThe Bluebook is part of Microsoft's Insurance Value ChainThe Microsoft IVC provides a framework for the creation of integrated partner applications for the insurance industry, based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, XML Web services, and industry standards such as ACORD. Within this framework, Microsoft partners are creating best-of-breed applications that help streamline insurance business processing. Because these partner applications use industry standards and run on Microsoft technologies already in place at many insurance companies, insurance companies can easily pair and integrate them with existing systems and applications. This serves to reduce the millions of dollars of post-acquisition integration pain often experienced by insurance companies. Microsoft simply brings together the best of breed solutions to the industry knitting them together to make a highly efficient and extremely powerful offering to the insurance industries. Microsoft technologies have provided fertile soil for independent software vendors to create innovative, high performance, flexible applications on a platform that interoperates with existing systems and provides people with a familiar operational environment. Microsoft has created a formal program to gather these companies together into a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Microsoft's unique set of insurance-specific applications and service offerings is called the Insurance Value Chain (IVC). People who work for insurance companies, large and small, are beginning to reap the rewards of new systems built by the IVC family of independent software vendors and systems integrators that can connect with internally developed applications. The Insurance Value Chain initiative is composed of these simple yet powerful activities:
The mission of Microsoft and its Insurance Value Chain partners is to alter the way that insurance customers, employees, and operations personnel experience Insurance. |
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