Connective Technologies, Inc. Announces
TEAM-UP Download Contract
with Arbella Insurance Group
Houston, TX, (BusinessWire) September 5,
2007, Connective Technologies announces their contract
signing with Arbella Insurance Group ("Arbella")
for licensing and implementing TEAM-UP DownloadT
and Data Translation Solutions. These applications
provide once-and-done processing in an industry
compliant, data-secure environment for agency downloads.
With an improved data translation process and environment,
both applications are easy to use and maintain.
Chris Steward, CIO and VP of IS at Arbella comments,
"Broadening our agency services by providing an
industry-leading platform like TEAM-UP demonstrates
our commitment to our independent agencies in making
it easier to do business with Arbella. With TEAM-UP's
latest generation of providing carrier-direct download
transmissions over the Internet and its enhanced
data translation services, we're excited about providing
this streamlined solution to our partner agents."
Dic Marxen, CEO of Connective Technologies adds,
"We welcome Arbella to our fast growing client base
in the Northeast, as well as across the country.
Our commitment to continuing to improve our agency
interface solutions with best-of-breed J2EE compliant
technology, functionality, streamlined processing,
and ease-of-use is a top priority of ours."
TEAM-UP Download is an Internet-secure offering
being leveraged by more than 35 P&C carriers in
providing accessibility to over 20,000 communicating
agency pairs using more than 40 different agency
management systems throughout every region in the
United States. Now in its third major release, the
product has matured to ensure agencies have a seamless
migration from other download processes. The improved
self-reliant features such as single-policy, real-time
archival retrievals by the agents, improved group
management distribution and tracking features that
ease and accelerate the registration process for
both agencies and carriers, have been implemented
with TEAM-UP's Service Oriented Architecture.
About Arbella Insurance Group:
Headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, the Arbella
Insurance Group is a customer-focused regional group
of five property and casualty insurance carriers.
Arbella provides a full array of personal and business
insurance products in Massachusetts. Arbella also
offers personal insurance in Connecticut and business
insurance in Rhode Island. Established in 1988,
Arbella has a reputation for exceptional service
built upon a foundation of financial strength, with
more than $650 million of annual written premium
and more than $1 billion in assets.
About Connective Technologies, Inc.
Connective Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-Commerce
business solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry,
specializing in Internet interface solutions for carriers and
their agents. Connective has used its many years of experience
with leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI
to pioneer the approach, which has helped it become the leading
provider of bridging and Internet-based interface solutions in
the industry. Connective provides implementation services for
its flagship products, TEAM-UP Upload, Download, and Data Translation
Services, as well as Site Development and Web Services. To learn
more about Connective products and services, contact Dic Marxen
at (817) 377-0815, by email at: dmarxen@connectivetech.com,
or visit our website at www.connectivetech.com.