Latest ACORD Headlines
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IBM Joins Insurance Industry Standards Group
May 22 2001 // IBM today announced it had joined the insurance industry’s nonprofit standards organization ACORD (the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development). In joining ACORD, IBM brings its brings global...
What the Heck Is XML’
May 14 2001 // A persistent problem in delivering the insurance product quickly and accurately to the consumer is that there is no uniform way for all the players behind the scenes to communicate. There are way too many human touches and...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2001 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
What the Heck is XML’
May 7 2001 // A persistent problem in delivering the insurance product quickly and accurately to the consumer is that there is no uniform way for all the players behind the scenes to communicate. There are way too many human touches and...
AMS Users Group Annual Conference Hosts First AUGIE Meeting
May 2 2001 // The AMS Users Groups meet with company and vender partners to discuss the future of technology and how to work together. Last week, the ACORD-User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) held the first meeting in conjunction...
AIG Joins ACORD
Dec 11 2000 // Nonprofit standards developer ACORD just got a big boost with the addition of international insurance giant American International Group Inc. AIG is the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the...
ACORD, CSIO to Collaborate on XML Standards for North America
Sep 8 2000 // Gregory A. Maciag, president and CEO of ACORD, and Klaas Westera, president and CEO of the Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO), jointly announced that discussions are underway between CSIO and ACORD to...
ACORD MAKES NEW FRIENDS
Sep 4 2000 // In an effort to take advantage of the Internet and all it has to offer, ACORD and the Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA) have exchanged memberships. According to ACORD President and CEO Gregory A. Maciag, the...
Insurance Data Management Association Joins ACORD
Aug 23 2000 // ACORD and the Insurance Data Management Association have exchanged memberships according to ACORD President and CEO Gregory A. Maciag. This alignment of memberships furthers ACORD’s commitment to collaborate with...
InsWeb Recognized for XML Achievements
Jul 28 2000 // ACORD bestowed an Early Adopter Award on online insurance provider InsWeb for its efforts to develop the XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard for p/c insurance transactions. According to Gregory A. Maciag, president...
Technology is your Slave, Not Your Master
Jul 10 2000 // The exhibit hall at the ACORD Technology Conference in Orlando in May would have made your head spin. On the one hand, technology is increasingly complex and sophisticated. On the other, it becomes easier when you keep the...
Technology is Your Slave, Not Your Master
Jun 12 2000 // The exhibit hall at the ACORD Technology Conference in Orlando last month would have made your head spin. On the one hand, technology is increasingly complex and sophisticated. On the other, it becomes easier when you keep...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUTOMATION: The Past, Present and Future of the Industry
May 15 2000 // In 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer (PC) for use in the home, office and schools. Prior to that time, there had been several MS-DOS compatible personal computers that ran DOS programs. As computers became more...
SEMCI: Paper Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
ACORD Technology Conference 2000 To ‘E-merge’ in Orlando
May 15 2000 // Evolve, Emerge, E-magine” will be the theme of the ACORD Technology Conference 2000, to be held at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., May 21-24. Rick Gilman, vice president-communications...
Independent Currents: SEMCI, Paper-Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
SEMCI: Paper-Free this Century’
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
