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Applied Systems Acquires Insurance AI Platform Planck
Jul 24 2024 // Insurance software firm Applied Systems reports that it has acquired Planck, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company for the insurance industry. Planck provides an AI-based data platform for commercial insurance. It...
Putting AI to Work Within the ‘Digital Round Trip’: Applied Systems CEO
Nov 15 2023 // The data is out there. The challenge is how to amass it, standardize it and make it useful. Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, stopped by the On Point podcast with host Peter Aartrijk to talk about the future of data...
Applied Systems Acquires Tarmika
Aug 16 2022 // Applied Systems said it has acquired Tarmika, a leading commercial lines rating solution that streamlines small business insurance. This complementary acquisition will expand Applied’s commercial quoting and...
Insurance Technology: Aon and Paypal, Applied Systems, and iink Address Digital Payments
May 3 2022 // Aon and Paypal Expand Access to Insurance for Small Businesses Insurance broker Aon and digital payment service PayPal Holdings announced a program to help PayPal’s small business customers in the U.S. access...
Applied Systems to Acquire EZLynx, Comparative Rating, Agency Management Vendor
Jan 14 2021 // Insurance technology firm Applied Systems has agreed to acquire EZLynx, an agency management system vendor and pioneer in real-time comparative rating . Applied said the acquisition is complementary and will expand its...
Holzworth to Head Applied Systems’ IVANS
Nov 2 2020 // Applied Systems has named Reid Holzworth as chief executive officer of IVANS, the insurance industry’s exchange connecting insurers, MGAs, agencies, and the insured. Holzworth will lead the expansion of the IVANS...
Half of Insurance Agencies Lack a Digital Strategy, Applied Systems Survey Finds
Aug 10 2020 // A little more than half (51%) of independent insurance agencies and brokerages say they have some sort of digital strategy in place, with larger firms more likely than smaller to have one. That’s according to...
Half of Insurance Agencies Lack a Digital Strategy, Applied Systems Survey Finds
Jul 23 2020 // A little more than half (51%) of independent insurance agencies and brokerages say they have some sort of digital strategy in place, with larger firms more likely than smaller to have one. That’s according to...
Agency M&As: Private Equity Still in Driver’s Seat; Digital Agencies Attract Attention
Mar 2 2020 // The private equity bandwagon continued to roll through the insurance agency and brokerage mergers and acquisitions territory in 2019. As many as two-thirds of all deals involved private equity, according to experts. Most...
Applied Systems to Acquire Indio to Digitize Commercial Lines Sales
Dec 16 2019 // Leading insurance technology firm Applied Systems has agreed to acquire digital insurance technology startup Indio Technologies. The move will enable Applied Systems to offer Indio’s digitized commercial insurance...
Insurtech M&A: Applied Systems to Acquire Indio to Digitize Commercial Lines Sales
Dec 4 2019 // Leading insurance technology firm Applied Systems has agreed to acquire digital insurance technology startup Indio Technologies. The move will enable Applied Systems to offer Indio’s digitized commercial insurance...
Applied Systems Names Rhodes New CEO as French Steps Down
Jun 3 2019 // Reid French has stepped down as CEO of the insurance agency technology firm Applied Systems, and cloud technology executive Taylor Rhodes has joined as Applied’s new chief executive officer. French, who served as CEO...
Applied Systems Acquires Agency CRM System TechCanary
Apr 10 2019 // Agency technology firm Applied Systems said it has acquired TechCanary, an insurance customer relationship management (CRM) system built on the Salesforce.com platform. Terms were not disclosed. Applied Systems said...
Look Who Is Betting on the Agency System
Feb 15 2019 // According to some pundits, buyers should all be online and the agency system should be dead by now. However, it appears not everyone got that memo. Here are some recent examples of companies, techies and investors betting...
Who’s Investing in the Agency System
Jan 21 2019 // According to some pundits, the agency system should be dead by now. However, it appears not everyone got that memo. Here are some recent examples of companies, techies and investors putting their money where their mouth is...
How Big Tech Flirted with Insurance in 2018
Jan 2 2019 // The almost weekly headlines about insurers and venture capitalists investing in insurtechs and tech-savvy insurance startups sometimes blocked the view of what established big technology firms were doing in...
Applied Systems Among Firms Layering Loans to Pay Equity Owners
Nov 29 2018 // First the companies tapped the loan market. Not long after that, they came back for more. Corporations like Bausch Health Cos., a drugmaker, telecom provider Sprint Corp. and Applied Systems Inc., an insurance software...
Google ‘Definitely’ Interested in Other Insurtech Investments Following Applied Systems
Oct 19 2018 // Google is eager to invest in other insurance technology companies well beyond its newly announced minority stake in Applied Systems, a principal investor with the global search engine giant said on Oct. 17. “We...
Applied Systems Acquires Benefits Software Firm Dynamis
Oct 18 2018 // Fresh off its announcement of Google becoming a minority investor, insurance agency technology provider Applied Systems announced it has acquired Dynamis Software Corp., a Milwaukee-based provider of employee benefits...
Google Invests in Insurance Agency Software Firm Applied Systems
Oct 17 2018 // Giant Google’s investment arm has purchased a minority stake in Applied Systems, a provider of insurance technology and cloud-based software for independent agencies. The investment in Applied Systems is being made...
